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With Halloween fast approaching it's time for a grand event. BALIF and AABA are teaming together to throw a Halloween Eve Fundraising Extravaganza for LYRIC on Thursday, October 30th. Come in costume or come as you are. Have a fabulous time!

 

LYRIC is a San Francisco charitable organization that provides primarily impoverished or homeless LGBTQ youth paid job training internships, including 100+ jobs over the past year.

 

To continue its great work, LYRIC needs your help. $1000 gives an LGBTQ kid a job, and a future! We have already raised over $10,000. Please go to www.balif.org/LYRICparty to buy individual tickets for just $25, or to be a sponsor. We can't wait to see you at the Halloween Eve Extravaganza.

 

 

Edward Joy

BALIF Community Ambassador Chair

 

Monday, December 15, 2014;

Wednesday, January 14, 2015;

Wednesday, February 11, 2015; and

Thursday, March 19, 2014

 

Time: 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm

What: Gourmet buffet lunch with other partners and law firm owners

Cost: $40 payable by cash or check only

 

 

October's luncheon topic:  Bring a business development challenge you face for which you'd like input.  What works for you for business development?  Where do you need help?  What ideas do you have to leverage collective wisdom of the BALIF Partners Exchange to help your practice grow?

 

BALIF has created the BALIF Partners Exchange to bring together our members that are looking to network and exchange business and ideas. This collegial event is exclusively for BALIF members who are partners or owners of their law firm with 7 year or more of experience. 

 

  For sponsorship opportunities, contact edward@edwardjoylaw.com

 

BALIF and BASF's Equality Subcommittee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Issues present a program that will address current best practices to ensure doorways are open to LGBT lawyers and that promotion and retention goals are embraced. Join us for this discussion on how best practices have changed since BASF last conducted a report on LGBT issues in 2007; what the landscape looks like today, and what further efforts need to be made to encourage promotion, retention and advancement of LGBT persons in the legal profession.

 

November 10, 2014 at 5:30 p.m. Register today.

 

Since BALIF is a co-sponsor, BALIF members get the BASF discounted rate of $25.

Please join BALIF and other local minority bar associations Wednesday, November 12 for the 2014 Minority Bar Coalition Unity Awards Reception at UC Hastings. Come celebrate the extraordinary contributions of this year's honorees, including BALIF's very own Edward Joy.

 

The Minority Bar Coalition (MBC) is a network of more than 25 diverse bar associations in the Bay Area. Its annual Unity Awards recognize attorneys who have best shown a dedication to working in a unified manner to advance the cause of diversity in the legal profession.

 

Edward was nominated by the BALIF Board of Directors, which recognized Edward for outstanding work as Chair of the BALIF Community Ambassador Committee, working alongside the Asian American Bar Association (AABA) to stage a major fundraiser for the LGBTQQ youth organization LYRIC.

 

Edward has recruited a large and diverse Community Ambassador Committee, with two thirds of the Committee being people of color and half of the Committee being female.   As Edward states, "The members of the Community Ambassador Committee represent BALIF throughout the year at galas and dinners sponsored by the other MBC organizations. I am proud that the face of BALIF is a diverse one."

 

Jamie Dupree, BALIF Board Co-Chair states, "Edward is BALIF's first Community Ambassador and in that role he has created a robust committee forging strong bonds with other MBC member organizations. He has gotten to know dozens of other MBC members on an individual level and has spearheaded a number of BALIF initiatives in support of MBC member causes, such as the joint BALIF/AABA LYRIC event and fundraiser. This award is richly deserved."

 

Keynote Speaker

Therese Stewart, Associate Justice, First District Court of Appeal

 

Women Jurists of Distinction

Hon. Gail Brewster Bereola

Hon. Yolanda Northridge

 

Honoring Alameda County Judges

Hon. Alison Tucher

Hon. Ursula Jones Dickson

Hon. Joan Cartwright, Ret.

 

Recognizing Women of Distinction

Margaret A. Gannon, Esq.

Aundrea Brown, Esq.

Lise Pearlman, Esq.

 

Thursday, October 16, 2014

No Host Bar & Silent Auction 6:00 pm

Dinner, Keynote & Awards 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.

 

Scott's Seafood Restaurant

2 Broadway, Jack London Square

Oakland, CA

 

Visit our website at www.wlaconline.org

To make an individual or group reservation, please return this form and a check payable to WLAC by Friday, October 10, 2014 to Patricia Delgado, 3045 - 23rd Street, San Francisco, CA 94110.

 

Please direct dinner inquiries to Ms. Delgado at admin@wlaconline.org.

Individual Sponsors and all Tables will be acknowledged in the printed program.

The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California is accepting applications for a Magistrate Judge vacancy in San Francisco. Please see the attached notice and the court's website for additional information and the application.  BALIF's Judiciary Committee seeks to develop, support, and provide the resources for those interested in joining the bench.  Please contact your BALIF Judiciary Co-Chairs, Andrew Vu or Lilah Sutphen, at judiciary@balif.org, if you have any questions regarding our work and efforts to get more LGBT attorneys on the bench.

Interested in learning more about the Bay Area LGBT Jewish landscape, meeting influential people, enhancing your public speaking and fundraising skills, and building a relationship with an established leader in the LGBT Jewish community? Apply or nominate someone you know for this great opportunity aimed at queer-identified Jews aged 25-40. Questions? email Angela Dalfen at adalfen@gmail.com

 

http://www.keshetonline.org/work/sfbay/lgbtq-pathways-to-jewish-leadership/

  

 

Confidentiality Law 

* Thursday, October 23, 5:30-7:00pm 

* Presented by Jim Wood, Esq. 

* 1.5 General CLE Credits 

 

Negotiation on Behalf of Tenants in San Francisco 

* Wednesday, November 5, 5:30-7:00pm 

* Presented by Deepa Varma, Esq., Eviction Defense Collaborative 

* Bar Association of San Francisco, 301 Battery Street, 3rd Floor, Board Room, San Francisco, CA 94111 

* 1.5 General CLE Credits 

 

All Classes take place at:

Bar Association of San Francisco

301 Battery Street, 3rd Floor, Board Room

San Francisco, CA 94111

 

To RSVP 

mcle@alrp.org

Call: 415-701-1200 ext. 303 

 

Wednesday, October 15th, the AIDS Legal Referral Panel of the San Francisco Bay Area (ALRP) will commemorate 31 years of serving the legal needs of people living with HIV/AIDS throughout the San Francisco Bay Area by hosting its ALRP From the Heart 31st Annual Reception & Auction. The Reception, ALRP's biggest fundraising event of the year, will feature special guest host San Francisco Supervisor Scott Wiener. 

 

The wine and food Reception, which will include a silent and live auction, is being held in the Julia Morgan Ballroom at the Merchants Exchange in San Francisco from 6:00 to 9:00 pm. 

 

Individual tickets for the Reception start at $100. For more details or for tickets, please visit www.alrp.org or contact Jim McBride, Director of Development at 415/701-1200 ext. 301, or by email at jim@alrp.org. 

 

BALIF's twitter feed is up and running.  Follow us to see BALIF news, event info, #ThrowbackThursday posts, and more.  Just click the Twitter button in the right hand column of the newsletter or here.

 

Request a ride with the push of a button! Uber is offering new users $20 off your first ride. Text BALIF to 827-222. You can also sign up at uber.com/go/BALIF and download the app for Android, Blackberry, or iPhone. Then sit back and enjoy the magic of Uber, everyone's private driver. (Valid for new users only, TAXI excluded).

 

Have a job or need one? Civil procedure question? Need a

referral? Have something important to ask ... or news to tell? Want to get to our members quickly? Join our Listserv!

 

BALIF members should have received our invitation to join our newly-created Listserv. You must proactively respond to the request in order to be added to our Listserv. If you didn't get a request, please let us know by emailing technology@balif.org or balif@balif.org.

We all love that section in our alumni newsletters that talks about who's doing what.

 

Well, we're introducing the BALIFBuzz to show-off all the great things that our members are doing.  BALIFBuzz will be appearing in the weekly BALIF newsletter.   

 

New job?

New client?

Promotion?

Court victory?

Significant settlement?

Baby on the way?

Recently married or engaged?

Speaking engagement?

Award, recognition, certification, or degree?  

Or anything else you're excited about...

 

Keep it to one or two lines.  Please send to membership@balif.org.

 

Can't wait to hear your great news!

 

Meaghan Zore 

BALIF Membership Chair

 

All job postings can be found here!  

 

BALIF membership must be current to view the job postings. Simply log into the BALIF website with your membership ID and password, and select JOBS from the menu on the left.

October 22 - BALIF Partners Exchange Luncheon

October 30 - LYRIC Halloween Eve Party 

November 10 - BALIF/ BASF present Elimination of LGBT Bias in the Legal Profession