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Message from the BALIF Board
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I look forward to seeing you this year and hearing all about your successful resolutions!
Sincerly,
Charles Bruce
BALIF Development Co-Chair
BALIF Gala Co-Chair
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BALIF Partner Exchange - Location Change
Wednesday, January 17, 2018
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LOCATION CHANGE!
BALIF Partner Exchange
When: Wednesday, January 17, 2018
Time: 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm
What: Lunch with other partners and firm owners
Cost: divided by guests present - cash appreciated
BALIF has created the BALIF Partner Exchange to bring together our members that are looking to network and exchange business and ideas. This event is exclusively for BALIF members who are partners or owners of their firm with 7 years or more of experience.
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BALIF's CCBA 2018 Initiative
Kickoff Happy Hour
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AABA and BALIF Judge Pro Tem
Information Session
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Remembering Our History: A Conversation with BAILF Founders and Early Members
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Featuring: Roberta Achtenberg, Mark Seneca, the Honorable Ronald Albers (Ret.), the Honorable Mary Morgan (Ret.), and Gene Stuart
January 25, 2018
6:00-8:30 pm
Pillsbury Withrop Shaw Pittman LLP
San Francisco, CA 94611
Join BALIF's Founders and early members for a discussion about the early years of BALIF and what's changed since then.
Refreshments provided
BALIF is the oldest LGBT bar association in the country, founded in 1980. Join some of BALIF's Founders and early members to discuss BALIF's founding, early years, and what has changed since then.
This is the continuation of a discussion commenced in October 2016 at BALIF's
Past, Present and Future event where there was standing room only.
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BALIF's 38th Annual Gala
Friday, March 2, 2018
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38th Annual Gala:
Resilient Together
March 2, 2018 7-11pm
VIP Reception 6pm
Purchase Tickets or Sponsor
Help us Celebrate our Awardees!
2018 Legal Service Award
Toby Adams
Intersex & Genderqueer Recognition Project (IGRP)
2018 Community Service Award
Justice Now
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MBC First Quarter Meeting and
MBC Co-Chair Applications
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The Minority Bar Coalition (MBC) will be having our first quarter meeting on Wednesday, January 31, 2018 from 6-8pm at Baker & McKenzie LLP. Please have one representative from your organization register to attend the event by next Friday, January 12, 2018. Also, we will be raffling off one free BASF membership to one lucky winner who RSVPs before January 12, 2018.
Click here for more info.
2. We have extended the deadline for MBC Co-Chair applications. If you or someone in your organization is interested, please have them complete this form before Friday, February 9, 2018 5pm. Applicants will be notified the first week of January.
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Transgender Law Center is now accepting applications for the third cohort of Legal Information Helpline response volunteers!
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The Helpline is our largest legal services project, providing legal information and resources to over 2000 transgender community members and their families a year across many areas, including employment, health care, housing, civil rights, immigration, prisoners' rights, and identity document changes.
If you are looking for a way to empower trans community members to advocate for themselves by expanding access to critical legal information, I hope you'll consider joining us to keep this vital program going.
The program is designed with busy lawyers in mind: we will provide you with training, access to our extensive database of information and resources, and ongoing support from TLC staff and the community of fellow volunteers.
Simply answer at least 10 questions a month for three months (this generally comes to a few hours a week), working from your own computer and on your own schedule. You can select which questions to respond to, based on your interest, expertise, and capacity.
If you would like to get involved, please fill out this form: https://tlcenter.box.com/s/121morf4f8cg1erx6ni3plf3nad6m6ry and return it to me (Ian Anderson) at [email protected] whenever you have the chance. If you have any questions, feel free to email me at the same address.
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Giving to the BALIF Foundation
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Please consider making a tax deductible donation to the BALIF Foundation. The Foundation recently launched and is working to assist BALIF in bringing LGBT judges to the bench and supporting scholarships, stipends and fellowships for law students and attorneys working in the LGBTQ community.
You can donate here. In the four years ahead, we believe the Foundation's work will be critical in helping to protect our community.
For more information about the BALIF Foundation or how to get involved, contact Jamie Dupree
[email protected].
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BALIF & The BALIF Foundation
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BALIF is the Bay Area's LGBT Bar Association, which is a 501(c)(6) nonprofit, which can engage in political activity. Its Board members are elected by the BALIF membership and chair various committees of the BALIF bar association.
The BALIF Foundation is BALIF's charitable arm. Donations to the BALIF Foundation are tax deductible because it is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. The BALIF Foundation is dedicated to increasing the number of LGBT judges on the bench through educational programming, supporting LGBT community organizations, and providing scholarships, summer stipends, and fellowships for LGBT law students and young attorneys seeking to help the LGBT community through legal work. It gave its inaugural summer fellowship for the summer of 2017.
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Job Postings Now on BALIF Website
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Looking for a job or a law school internship? As a BALIF member you get access to all job postings. Click
here to see the opportunities, or log into the
BALIF website with your membership ID and password, and select JOBS on the menu on the left.
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January 18 -
BALIF's CCBA 2018 Initiative Kickoff Happy Hour
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January 24 -
AABA and BALIF Judge Pro Tem Information Session
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Partner Level
Counsel Level
Advocate Level
A.L. Nella & Co., CPA
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP
Jones Day
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
Latham & Watkins LLP
Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP
O'Melveny & Myers LLP
Pacific Gas & Electric
Sanford Heisler, LLP
Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP
Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
Sidley Austin LLP
Uber
Weaver, Austin, Villeneuve & Sampson LLP
Wells Fargo Legal Specialty Private Bank
White & Case LLP
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Benefactor Level
Individual Sponsors
Steven Medeiros, ACLU of Northern California
Joanna Barron, ADR Services
Jeremy Sousa, Altep
Susan Bluer, Bluer & Bluer
C. Todd Norris, Bullivant Houser Bailey P.C.
Laurie Klimchock, CAOC
Michael Colantuono, Colantuono, Highsmith & Whatley, PC
Jim Laufenberg, Coldwell Banker
Peter Borkon, Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP
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Nyla Moujaes & Peter Catalanotti
Jamie Dupree
Stephan Ferris
Jaclyn Gross & Kevin Jones
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BALIF Foundation
Board of Directors
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Jamie Dupree, Chair
Shay Gilmore
Chelsea HaleyNelson, Secretary
Laura Maechtlen
Nina Paul
Linda Scaparotti
David Tsai
John Unruh, Treasurer
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