August 9, 2018
Washington, D.C. (August 7, 2018) 鈥 The American Civil Liberties Union and Center for Gender & Refugee Studies (CGRS) filed a federal lawsuit today challenging the Trump administration鈥檚 gutting of asylum protections for immigrants fleeing domestic violence and gang brutality. At issue are new 鈥渆xpedited removal鈥 policies put forth by…
August 7, 2018
The Council on Legal Education Opportunity, Inc. (CLEO) announced the winners of its inaugural CLEO EDGE Awards in Education and selected both 麻豆视频 Law SF and Jan Jemison, retired Director of 麻豆视频 Law SF LEOP, as awardees. CLEO, widely renowned for its mission to increase the number of lawyers…
Perhaps there is no area of law more affected by technological innovation than the litigation practice. Consider how the field has changed in the past 80 years: In 1938, when the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure were first adopted by the courts, there were no direct-dial long-distance calls, no electric…
August 7, 2018
Increasingly, physicians are understanding that there is no such thing as a one-size-fits-all treatment for patients, even if they have the same condition. 鈥淧recision medicine,鈥 or personalized medicine, is an approach to disease prevention and treatment that considers individual variability in genes, environment, and lifestyle. A treatment that is successful…
August 7, 2018
In San Francisco, the future is now. Here, the cars drive themselves, prospectors 鈥渕ine鈥 the Internet for cashless currency, and technologies that change the world鈥攆or better and worse鈥攁re born. No industry is safe from disruption, even the tradition-bound legal landscape, which is undergoing a sea change thanks to a burgeoning…
August 7, 2018
A large black sign with white lettering hangs on the wall of Professor Alina Ball鈥檚 office. It doesn鈥檛 mince words, and it doesn鈥檛 pull punches: Work Hard, Be Kind. The maxim caught Ball鈥檚 eye one day after work, on her walk to BART. Feeling that it articulated something essential…
August 7, 2018
Federal appellate clerkships are among the most coveted opportunities for newly minted lawyers, with only a small percentage of candidates accepted. This year, two remarkable students, 3Ls Nina Gliozzo and Alyxandra Vernon, have secured highly competitive clerkships at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals headquartered in San Francisco. 鈥淎lyx and…
August 7, 2018
Professor Evan Lee鈥檚 scholarly article for the Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly, entitled 鈥淲hy California鈥檚 Second-Degree Felony-Murder Rule is Now Void for Vagueness,鈥 was cited by Ninth Circuit Judge Ronald M. Gould in his opinion in the case of Henry v. Spearman. The matter involved a California state prisoner鈥檚…
August 7, 2018
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg referenced Professor Scott Dodson鈥檚 amicus brief during oral argument in the case of Hamer v. Neighborhood Housing Serv. of Chicago. The matter was before the Court on appeal from the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit to resolve the question:聽 Does…
Augie Rakow 鈥07 was a partner representing startups at Orrick when a Facebook post changed his career. In January 2017, he saw that Justin Kan, an entrepreneur who had sold his live-streaming video company Twitch.tv to Amazon for nearly $1 billion, had posted a poll about the cost of venture…
As a woman who is biracial and has confronted disparity in profound ways in her life, Jordyn Bishop 鈥17 enrolled in law school with ambitions of becoming an advocate for people of color and indigenous communities. 鈥淚鈥檓 half white, so I have immense privilege,鈥 Bishop said. 鈥淎nd because I have…
August 3, 2018
The only thing certain about the future of the law is uncertainty. I graduated law school in 1986. The most popular computer at that time was the Macintosh 128. It was a marvel. My iPhone, however, is more than 100 times faster, has over 1,000 times the memory, and is…