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Closed for the Holidays
Our office will be closed for the Holidays starting Monday, December 24th. We will re-open Wednesday, January 2nd. We will respond to emails and phone calls as soon as possible upon our return.
- NLGSF Staff
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Register for a Day of CLE's
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Join your colleagues and friends for the National Lawyers Guild's 7th Annual Staying True to Your Roots program, a day of inspiring and useful Continuing Legal Education taught by leading advocates in the fields of social justice lawyering and legal work.
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Staying True to Your Roots:
A Day of CLE's
Friday, January 25th
The Practicing Law Institute
685 Market Street, Suite 100, San Francisco
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Confirmed panels/speakers include:
Mindfulness Training for Progressive Lawyers | Presented by Demarris Evans - This panel will provide 45 minutes of general CLE credit.
How Addiction Affects the Brain | Presented by Alex Stalcup
This panel will provide one hour of CLE credit for prevention, detection and treatment of substance abuse or mental illness.
Plenary: The State of Progressive Movements in the Trump Era | Jay Kim, the Executive Director of the SF NLG chapter will moderate a panel featuring Cat Brooks (Anti-Police Terror Project), Nakia Woods (Black Alliance for Just Immigration), a speaker from Equal Rights Advocates, Jason Rabinowitz (Teamsters Local 2010), a speaker from TGI Justice Project, and Vasudha Talla (ACLU of Northern California), discussing the present and future of progressive movements in today’s political reality.
California’s New Ethics Rules | Presented by Richard Zitrin and Hina Shah
This panel will provide two hours of CLE credit for ethics. Speakers will present on major relevant changes in the new ethics rules, and engage in a participatory discussion of factual scenarios applying the new rules.
Happy hour: Location to be announced.
***This event is co-sponsored by the ACLU of Northern California, the Alameda-Contra Costa Trial Lawyers Association (ACCTLA), the American Immigration Lawyers Association, Northern California Chapter (AILA), the Minority Bar Coalition, the National Immigration Project (NIP), the Legal Aid Association of California (LAAC), California Employment Lawyers Association (CELA), Alameda County Bar Association (ACBA), and San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association (SFTLA)***
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Save the Date: International Committee Weekend Retreat
Friday, March 1 to Sunday March 3
Location TBD/SF Bay Area
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We invite you to join us for 2 days interesting, informative discussions and programs, and evenings with presentations and discussions on cutting-edge international legal issues and people's struggles as well as International Committee planning and meetings.
Please join us! If you can't join for the whole retreat, we will also be holding special discussions and programs on Friday and Saturday evenings and hope you can attend.
Please email Charlotte Kates at international@nlg.org with any questions about housing and planning, or if you have suggestions of what you'd like to see on the program!
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Testimonial Dinner 2019
On Saturday, April 27, 2019 hundreds of progressive, radical legal workers, lawyers, and law students were joined by friends in honoring members of our community at the National Lawyers Guild San Francisco Bay Area Chapter Testimonial Dinner 2019 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.
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Apply to be an intern
APPLICATION DEADLINE – January 1, 2019
The National Lawyers Guild Bay Area Chapter (NLGSF) seeks an enthusiastic and administratively competent intern for the fall semester.
Please submit a cover letter answering the following questions:
- Why are you interested in this internship?
- How would you describe your social justice activism?
- Have you ever interned before?
- What are you hoping to learn from this internship?
In addition to a cover letter please submit two letters of recommendation and your resume with your expected availability to Marcelena – Membership Coordinator marcelena@nlgsf.org
Find more information to about the position here
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Member & Committee Announcements
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GI Rights Hotline Training
Thursday, January 17
5:30 - 8:30pm
Room 221
The Veterans Building
401 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco
For more information about this project contact Siri Margerin atsirism@mac.com or 415.836.3771
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The Bay Area Military Counseling Project is a private, non-profit, non-governmental organization that answers hundreds of calls from military personnel and their families. The GI Rights Hotline provides counseling and information to service members and veterans.
Join in for a training to learn how to advise hotline callers on discharges, grievance and complain procedures, and other civil rights issues.
Veteran participation is welcomed and encouraged. Hotline counseling is a great way to use your knowledge of military issues as part of your law training and to support active service members as well as other veterans.
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People Get Ready
Sunday, January 20
12 - 6pm
Dweinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
We are excited to welcome back most of our speakers and panelists and will drop a detailed program ASAP. In the meantime, please save the date and
help us spread the word about People Get Ready 2.
If you haven't already pre-registered, you can do so here
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Center for Political Education is excited to announce that we have rescheduled the People Get Ready 2 conference for January 20--same place, same time, same powerful opportunity to seize the time and push our movements forward!
People Get Ready 2, a one day conference organized by Center for Political Education, will offer discussions directly assessing the current political terrain while engaging local, national, and international struggles around militarism, worker-organizing, and displacement that shape our world and struggles to come.
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Office available part time at Oakland Law Collaborative!
Sunny, private corner office open 2-4 days a week in downtown Oakland for radical social justice lawyer, legal worker, social worker, or small nonprofit. Have your own practice and be part of our supportive collaborative. POC, including women and trans folks of color, queer and disabled folks especially encouraged to apply. For more info, oaklaw.org/opening/.
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Lawyers needed to litigate
CPRA and FOIA requests that NLGSF has made in relation to police and government misconduct. For details contact Rachel Lederman, rachel@bllaw.info.
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PAN Internship / Law Clerk Position
About PAN
The Prisoner Advocacy Network is a volunteer network of California activists, family members, formerly incarcerated people, legal workers, law students, and attorneys. Our focus is narrow and specific – supporting people in California’s solitary confinement and similar conditions of isolation such as security housing units (SHUs), administrative segregation, and gender-based segregation. We prioritize advocating for jailhouse lawyers and those engaged in political activity. We provide non-litigation advocacy for incarcerated people experiencing discrimination, retaliation, and rights violations. We gather evidence documenting conditions and trends of treatment in the exceptionally repressive prison environments of solitary and other forms of segregation.
Details
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Please submit a resume and a cover letter to pan@nlgsf.org
We are happy to work with you to obtain school credit or to apply for funding at sources you identify. PAN is an all-volunteer organization and funding is therefore limited, however we have consistently worked to provide stipends for our interns at the internship’s end.
PAN is an affirmative action employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, disability or sexual orientation, or incarceration history. Directly impacted individuals are strongly encouraged to apply. Find more information to apply here
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