Dedicated to the need for basic change in the structure of our political and economic system, we seek to unite the lawyers, law students, legal workers and jailhouse lawyers of America, to function as an effective political and social force in the service of the people, to the end that human rights shall be regarded as more sacred than property interests.
The NLGSF is cosponsoring this event.
In Commemoration of Palestinian Prisoner’s Day
Wednesday, April 17, 7pm
First Congregational Church of Berkeley
2345 Channing Way, at Dana
Just a 15 minute walk from Downtown Berkeley Bart
Introduced by Palestinian journalist from Dheisheh Refugee Camp, Ziad Abbas, who will speak about Palestinian children prisoners
Join our Demonstrations Committee for our monthly meeting. We review past and future demonstrations, protests and other actions. We discuss our chapter’s legal support of activists, evolving laws, and police practices.
The Sacramento chapter is growing! The next meeting is planned for Tuesday, April 16th at 5:30 pm. The meeting will be at McGeorge School of Law, 3200 Fifth Avenue in Sacramento, room S-19 (which is upstairs in the Student Center). Click here for a map. The best place for people to park is the street on Donner Way or 5th Ave.
Knowledge is Power: Staying Safe Around Police Crowd Dispersal Tactics
A Practical Training
Followed by the documentary film This Is What Democracy Looks Like
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Golden Gate University, School of Law, Room 2203
536 Mission St.
Training 5pm - 6pm
Film 6pm - 8pm
FREE FOOD!
We need your energy and creativity to help keep the chapter strong! Join our fundraising committee and do your part to support the National Lawyers Guild. This month we will meet Tuesday, March 26th at 6:30 PM in Oakland.
Become a certified, NLG legal observer!
Legal Observer Training
Golden Gate University, School of Law
Thursday, March 21
11:45pm - 1pm
536 Mission St, San Francisco, Room 3216
Legal observers monitor law enforcement at protests, demonstrations, and other political actions involving free speech and/or civil disobedience. Legal observers have collected evidence that has ultimately been helpful to activists facing false charges in criminal court or to activists suing police departments.
Join our Demonstrations Committee for our monthly meeting. We review past and future demonstrations, protests and other actions. We discuss our chapter’s legal support of activists, evolving laws, and police practices.
The NextGen Committee, formerly the Mentorship Committee, has overseen the most successful mentorship program for progressive law students and throws a great cocktail party for NLG members every year. Now, the committee is broadening its work to focus on fostering the next generation of progressive lawyers and legal workers. Join us in this important work!
The next meeting is Monday, March 18 at 6 pm in San Francisco.
Join us Thursday, March 14th at 6:30 PM for a gathering to plan our annual Testimonial Dinner. We will meet at 5582 Lawton Avenue in Oakland and discuss the big event - honoring Walter Riley, Carrey Lamprecht and the Haiti Emergency Relief Fund; and featuring Rebecca Solnit, Boots Riley of The Coup, and others. We will be stuffing envelopes and enjoying dinner and wine.
The next Immigration Committee meeting of the chapter will take place on Thursday, March 14th at 12pm at the ACLU 2nd Floor Conference Room (39 Drumm Street, SF).
National Lawyers Guild members are invited to attend the GI Rights Network’s annual conference in Santa Cruz on March 8-9, 2013. Program topics include involuntary discharges, medical issues, conscientious objection, veterans issues, non-judicial punishment, and military sexual trauma. MCLE credit will be available for Saturday programs.
The GGU chapter of the NLG welcomes students and faculty to a presentation on the dangerous consequences of mainstream anti-human trafficking campaigns and Prop 35. This panel is a "second opinion" in response to Human Trafficing-Issues Facing the Bay Area panel hosted by the ACLU and other orgs. Long-time sex work activist Carol Leigh will screen a clip from her documentary "Collateral Damage: Sex Workers and the Anti-Trafficking Campaigns," followed by a panel conversation between Leigh and adjunct professor Cynthia Chandler and a question/answer session. Snacks will be provided!
National Lawyers Guild members in Sacramento, Davis, and areas nearby, are invited to attend an organizing meeting on Thursday, February 28, 5:30 PM at Beeson, Tayer & Bodine, 520 Capitol Mall, Suite 300 in Sacramento. Among other things, we will discuss building the pool of mentors in the area, an future trainings for legal observers and protest law.
3,146 people are still on death row. The situation is gradually improving, but the need for action has never been more urgent. Every year on this day, we, as law students, reflect on our highest, most sacred humanist values, and wonder whether they are consistent with maintaining capital punishment. Please join us in the struggle to do away with this ineffective method of deterring crime by attending a film screening and panel discussion.
Wednesday, February 27, 2013 3:30 to 4:40 Food and Drink Provided Place: UC Hastings, Room F
The mentorship committee has overseen the most successful mentorship program for progressive law students and throws a great cocktail party for NLG members every year. Now, the committee is broadening its work to focus on fostering the next generation of progressive lawyers and legal workers. Join us in this important work!
The next meeting is Monday, February 25 at 6 pm in the East Bay. More details to come.
The rumors are true, the Mentorship Committee will soon be called the NextGen Committee, with a renewed commitment to grow the Guild by building lasting, inspiring relationships between Bay Area NLG members. Join fellow lawyers, legal workers and law students for a drink as we celebrate this transition.
5:30pm – 7:30pm
The Trappist
460 8th St, Oakland
nearest BART - 12th Street, Oakland
Join our Demonstrations Committee for our monthly meeting. We review past and future demonstrations, protests and other actions. We discuss our chapter’s legal support of activists, evolving laws, and police practices.
Our chapter Executive Board meetings are generally held every first Wednesday of the month, alternating between the East Bay and San Francisco. The board governs the chapter and is elected by the Bay Area membership. The current board list can be found by clicking here.
Saturday February 2, 2013 - 4:30 to 7pm in the Clara Foltz Lounge (in 100 McAllister St. building)
Radical law students of color! Come spend time with like-minded students, attorneys and legal workers of color, and learn more about The United People of Color Caucus (TUPOCC) of the National Lawyers Guild.
++Snacks and drinks provided++
The State Bar Committee of the NLGSF is meeting Wednesday, Jan. 31, at Don Ramon's, 225 - 11th St. in S.F.