Bay Area (San Francisco and Oakland area) Lawyer Chapter

Bay Area Lawyer Chapter Board of Directors

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Bay Area Lawyer Chapter Hosts 2007-08 Supreme Court Term Review

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Recent/Upcoming Events

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Bay Area Lawyer Chapter presents "Restoring Justice: How the Department of Justice Has Been Politicized and How To Revive It"

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On July 15, 2008, the Bay Area Lawyer Chapter presented a panel entitled “Restoring Justice: How the Department of Justice Has Been Politicized and How To Revive It.” The panel featured three former high-ranking Department of Justice officials: Professor Dawn Johnsen, former Acting Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel, and current Professor of Law, University of Indiana School of Law, Bloomington; Bill Lann Lee, former Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division, and current Shareholder, Lewis, Feinberg, Lee, Renaker & Jackson, P.C.; and Michael Small, former Deputy Associate Attorney General, attorney in the Office of Legal Counsel, and current Senior Counsel, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld.

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Bay Area Lawyer Chapter Hosts "Criminal Justice and the 'War on Terror:' Defending Individuals Accused of Terrorism

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On June 26, 2008, the ACS Bay Area Lawyer Chapter co-hosted an event with the San Francisco Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, featuring Steven T. Wax and Wazhma Mojaddidi. Mr. Wax is the Federal Public Defender for the District of Oregon, author of Kafka Comes to America: Fighting for Justice in the War on Terror, and the attorney for Brandon Mayfield and seven Guantanamo Bay detainees. Ms. Mojaddidi represents Hamid Hayat, a U.S. citizen accused of attending a terrorist training camp and providing assistance to a terrorist organization. The two attorneys told a crowd of over sixty people about how the U.S. government has targeted and denied due process rights to their clients -- individuals whom these attorneys believe to be innocent of the charges brought against them. The audience heard first-hand accounts of the "Kafka-esque" nature of criminal prosecutions in the "war on terror."

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Bay Area Lawyer Chapter Wins Diversity Award

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The Bay Area Lawyer Chapter was presented with the Diversity Award at the National Convention of the American Constitution Society for Law & Policy on Saturday June 14th, 2008. This award is given to the lawyer chapter that has made the greatest strides in increasing diversity amongst its membership and in its programming.

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ACS Bay Area Lawyer Chapter Holds Clerkship Panel

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On June 18, the Bay Area Chapter held a panel discussion primarily aimed at law students interested in pursuing judicial clerkships.
Howard Rice hosted the panel and provided hors d'oeuvres, wine, beer, and other drinks. The panel consisted of Jahan Sagafi (a partner at Lieff Cabraser and former clerk in the Northern District of California), Rose Ring (an associate at Munger Tolles & Olson and a former clerk in the 9th Circuit), Erin Bernstein (an attorney with the City Attorney's Office and a former clerk in the Central District of California and California Supreme Court), Vince Chhabria (an attorney with the City Attorney's Office and a former clerk in the Northern District of California, 9th Circuit, and U.S. Supreme Court), and Rebecca Kahan (an associate at Howard Rice and former clerk in the 3d Circuit). The panelists shared thoughts on the differences between trial-level and appellate clerkships, state and federal clerkships, the application process, selecting courts and judges to apply to, and stories of their clerking days. Around 70 students from law schools around the country attended.

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Bay Area Networking & Development Happy Hour

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On November 8, 2007, the Bay Area Lawyer Chapter hosted a Happy Hour to kick off the BAND (Bay Area Networking & Development). The event took place on Thursday, November 8, 2007, from 6:00pm - 8:00pm at The Ambassador in San Francisco, California. ACS BAND is a networking program connecting ACS members of different levels of professional experience - members who otherwise might not come to know one another.

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The Bay Area Lawyer Chapter Presents "A Discussion with Senator Carl Levin"

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Senator Carl Levin speaking to members of the Bay Area Lawyer Chapter

On Tuesday, May 29, 2007, the Bay Area Lawyer Chapter of the American Constitution Society hosted a discussion featuring Senator Carl Levin. Senator Levin serves as both Chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee and Chair of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. In addition to speaking on U.S. detainee policy- including the treatment of detainees at the controversial detention facility at Guantanamo Bay- he also spent considerable time answering members' questions regarding the war in Iraq, concerns of the expansion of executive power, and restoration of habeas corpus.

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Access to Justice Symposium West Coast Student Networking Conference

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The Constitution in the 21st Century Project’s Access to Justice Issue Group and the California ACS Chapters held the Access to Justice Symposium and West Coast Networking Conference on April 7-8. Representative Zoe Lofgren (D-CA)was the keynote speaker. The conference met in downtown San Francisco, CA on the evening of Friday, April 7 with a judges’ discussion of the proposed split of the Ninth Circuit featuring four sitting judges: Chief Judge Mary M. Schroeder; and Judges Andrew J. Kleinfeld, Sidney R. Thomas and Raymond C. Fisher. The conference continued on Saturday, April 8 at Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley with substantive panels, the keynote luncheon, career workshops and an organizing session. Thank you to all of the speakers and participants for making this conference a great success. Please see the complete schedule and list of speakers for more details.

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