The Vietnamese American Community Center of the East Bay (VACCEB) is joining forces with the Alameda County Bar Association (ACBA) and the Vietnamese Bar Association of Northern California (VABANC) to provide legal clinics to the Vietnamese American community in the East Bay. We will start out with 2 clinics scheduled as follows:

Saturday, June 19, 2010, from 11 am to 1pm Wednesday, July 21, 2010, from 6pm to 8pm

All clinics will be at the Community Center located at 106 International Blvd, Oakland, CA 94606. These are walk-in clinics. Set clinics will be determined depending on how these turn out.

The Barristers Club is proud to announce The Second Annual Barristers Diversity Reception will be held the evening of Wednesday, July 21, 2010. Last year the Barristers Club honored Regina Pisa, Chairman and Managing Partner of Goodwin Procter LLP, as the recipient of its first ever Diversity Award. This year the Barristers will honor another deserving attorney who has made significant contributions to diversifying the legal profession.

Location: BASF Conference Center, 301 Battery Street, 3rd Floor, San Francisco

 

The Vietnamese American Bar Association of Southern California cordially invites you to attend our 9th Inauguration Dinner in recognition of Judge-Elect Cheri Pham.

Location: The Hilton Waterfront Beach Resort, 21100 Pacific Coast Highway, Huntington Beach in the Cielo Mare Ballroom

For more information or to RSVP, please email at vabasc@gmail.com.

 

Click here to read the press release.

VABANC is proud to announce the launch of the 2010/2011 Mentorship Program. The Mentorship Program is for students from all law schools in Northern California. This program will match law students with attorney mentors. We will be planning a kick-off dinner for mentors and mentees at the beginning of the 2010/2011 school year and plan to host a number of other informal and formal events throughout the school year to support the Mentorship Program.

If you are interested in obtaining a mentor or if you are a practitioner and would like to serve as a mentor, please fill out this application and email it to Nhung Le (nle@luce.com) no later than July 30, 2010. Your match will be emailed to you by August 15, 2010.

We encourage all attorneys and law students to participate and hope that many will take advantage of the opportunity.

 

NAPABA’s Board of Governors (the “Board”) has created four new At-Large Board Member positions on the Board. These At-Large Members shall be appointed by the Board to serve in the 2010-2011 bar year. (Two such members shall also serve in the 2011-2012 bar year.)

The NAPABA Nominations and Elections Committee invites each member in good standing to submit his or her name and statement as a candidate for At-Large Board Member to Bettina Yip at Bettina.Yip@DelMonte.com by August 3, 2010. All candidates are invited to attend the August 7, 2010, Board meeting in Las Vegas , NV , to make a five minute presentation about his or her qualifications.

For more information, click here to review the complete At-Large Members Guidelines.

 

On August 5, 2010, the American Bar Association’s Judicial Division, in association with the State Bar of California Council on Access and Fairness, the Bar Association of San Francisco, and the Bay Area legal community* will sponsor a public discussion about how racial and ethnic minority communities perceive California’s courts and how that perception impacts public trust and confidence in the judicial system. The moderators will be former California Supreme Court Justice Cruz Reynoso and State Court Judges Ken Kawaichi (ret.) and Gordon Baranco (Superior Court of California, Alameda County).

Join a free public discussion of how the public perceives the courts and how courts and their communities might address any concerns identified by participants. With your help, the program will present recommendations that will be forwarded to the ABA for its overall consideration of this topic.

Time: 2-5 pm
Place: Golden Gate Law School, 536 Mission St. (Mission between 1st and 2nd St.)
Date: Thursday, August 5, 2010

*Other sponsors include the Asian Law Alliance, Asia Pacific Bar Association, CA Association of Black Lawyers, Charles Houston Bar Association, La Raza Lawyers, National Indian Justice Center, and South Asian Bar Association.

United States District Court Northern District of California cordially invites you to the induction of Lucy Haeran Koh as United States District Judge for the Northern District of California on Thursday, September 30, 2010 at 5:30 p.m. at the Corinthian Event Center (196 North Third Street, San Jose). Reception to follow at same location.

RSVP by September 20 to rsvp@cand.uscourts.gov