Thursday, March 4, 2010 South Asian Bar Association of Northern California (SABA-NC) Foundation Public Interest Fellowship Program Reception Please join us for SABA-NC's Reception kicking off its 2010 Public Interest Fellowship Program. Time: 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Location: Farella Braun & Martel, 235 Montgomery St., 17th Floor Conference Center, San Francisco, CA 94104 Casual Attire. Please RSVP by e-mailing SABA-NC Foundation Vice President Monali Sheth at mssheth@gmail.com by Tuesday, March 2. Fellowship applications are due on Friday, March 26, 2010 and are available online at http://www.southasianbar.org. For more information, please contact SABA-NC Foundation President Kavya Mohankumar at kavyajfk@gmail.com. Wednesday, March 3, 2010 Community Webinar on Census 2010 Make South Asians Count! Time: 1:00 p.m. Location: Click Here to Register. Saturday, March 6, 2010 Belonging: Celebrating the Diversity of Race and Class in San Francisco's Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim, and South Asian American Communities Time: 6:30 to 9:00 p.m. Location: 111 Minna Street. San Francisco Hosted by the Korematsu Institute at the Asian Law Caucus, this community fundraiser event will include a live Qawwali performance by Sukhawat and Ali Khan & Party. Please join us and feel free to pass along this information. The event promises to be great with wonderful music and friends. Suggested $25 donation at the door. Please RSVP at events@asianlawcaucus.org SABA-NC Monthly Lunch in the South Bay Time: 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Location: Sakoon Indian Restaurant, 357 Castro Street, Mountain View, CA http://www.sakoonrestaurant.com/ RSVP to Suchitra.Narayen@Sun.com Thursday, March 18, 2010 SABA-NC Business Networking Time: 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Location: TBD Cost: $30 (Includes Dinner) SABA-NC is putting together a fun evening for attorneys to network with each other and create a referral system. If you are turning away clients due to your lack of expertise in a specific legal area, conflicts, or bandwidth, or if you are not getting the amount of exposure needed to reach out to prospective clients or would like to increase your reach and business, then this is the event for you. SABA's referral networking event will bring together attorneys from different practice groups, provide you the opportunity to leverage each other's specialty, and allow you establish new relationships that support ongoing growth of your business. Registration: Please contact Firasat Ali at Fali@CresoLegal.com. Also indicate your practice area and practice areas of attorneys with whom you would like to network. Sunday, March 14, 2010 Sunday, March 21, 2010 KNOW YOUR RIGHTS AS AN EMPLOYEE: discrimination and wrongful termination A free SABA legal seminar for everyone (not just lawyers!). Learn about your rights in the workplace and how to enforce them. Topics covered include: discrimination, harassment, retaliation for whistleblowing or exercising your rights, and what to do when you are still at your job, when you are no longer at your job and when you weren't hired. Time: 12:00 p.m. Location: Sunday March 14th at the India Community Center, 525 Los Coches St., Milpitas, CA Sunday March 21st at the Pakistani American Culture Center, 4423 Fortran Court, Suite 160, San Jose, CA Legal clinics will precede the seminars from 10:00 a.m. until Noon. Sunday, March 21, 2010 Breaking In: A workshop on becoming a law professor, adjunct, or administrator Come to this exciting program to learn how to "break in" to a career in the legal academy. In addition to reviewing the roles and responsibilities of administrators, adjuncts, clinical, legal writing, and doctrinal faculty, we will provide an opportunity to ask questions of the experts! And each participant will go home with a packet of job descriptions to help you make some important decisions. Time: 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Location: Golden Gate University School of Law, 536 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA Breakfast and lunch will be included in your $35.00 registration fee. Golden Gate University School of Law students and graduates register for free by emailing Eluzzi@saltlaw.org. Register on-line at: https://www.saltlaw.org/conferences/view/33 Tuesday, March 23, 2010 MCLE Roundtable - Marketing Your Solo Practice Co-sponsored by the South Asian Bar Association of Northern California Hosted by the San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association Time: 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. Location: San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association 225 Bush Street, Suite #357 San Francisco, CA 94104 For more information and to register, click HERE. Thursday, March 25, 2010 SABA-NC and San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association Networking Mixer Time: Happy Hour, 5:30 p.m. Location: Dada Lounge, 86 2nd Street, San Francisco, CA 94102 March 24 - 27, 2010 ABA National Conference on EEO Law The ABA is offering NASABA members the opportunity to apply for scholarships to attend the ABA National Conference on EEO Law sponsored by the EEO Committee of the ABA. The Conference will be held from March 24-27, 2010 at the Hyatt Regency Hill Country Resort in San Antonio, TX. Selected scholarship recipients will receive free registration for the conference, travel reimbursement of up to $500 for coach airfare, up to 3 nights hotel room and tax at the group rate, and a $100 stipend for ground transportation. Email kirmanis@jacksonlewis.com for an application. Deadline is January 15, 2010. Mail to: Christopher Meacham, Assistant Director, American Bar Association, Section of Labor & Employment Law, 321 N. Clark Street, Chicago, IL 60610, Tel. 312-988-5821, Fax. 312-988-5814, MeachamC@staff.abanet.org. Tuesday, April 13, 2010 MCLE- Financial & Physical Abuse to the Elderly Co-sponsored by the South Asian Bar Association of Northern California Hosted by the San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association Time: Location: San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association 225 Bush Street, Suite #357 San Francisco, CA 94104 For more information and to register click HERE. |
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