BAND provides opportunities for ACS members (attorneys and students) to network at small, casual events. The topics of discussion vary from event to event. Some events are not focused on any particular topic, but are free-ranging. Others are focused on substantive areas of the law. Others are focused on aspects of career development, such as working in particular environments (government, nonprofit, big firm, small firm, plaintiffs' firm, etc.) and particular perspectives on practice (e.g., attorneys of color, women attorneys, etc.).

For each event, space is limited to the first dozen or so ACS members to RSVP. To RSVP, email the contact address listed for the given event. The location of each event will be provided once you RSVP. We look forward to seeing you!

To join ACS, visit www.acslaw.org/join. For questions about BAND, email Jahan Sagafi at jsagafi@lchb.com.

Upcoming Events
• Thursday, July 15, 2010 - 6:00 p.m. - Berkeley
  Barry Goldstein (Columbia Law) of Goldstein Demchak Baller Borgen & Dardarian (formerly Director of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund's Washington, D.C. office) will host a dinner discussion at his home. The discussion will focus on public interest litigation, with an emphasis on litigation by private firms. Attendance is full.
• TBD - San Francisco
  Martín Sabelli (Yale Law) of the Law Offices of Martín A. Sabelli (formerly of the San Francisco Federal Public Defender's Office and Winston & Strawn) will host a dinner discussion at his home regarding criminal defense practice.
• TBD - TBD
  Laura Juran (Stanford Law 1998) of the California Teachers' Association (formerly Altshuler Berzon) will host a discussion of her practice representing unions as outside and in-house counsel.
• TBD - TBD
  Ajay Krishnan (Harvard Law 2002) of Keker & Van Nest (formerly of the ACLU of Northern California and Howard Rice; now on a 3-month rotation at the San Francisco DA's Office) will host a discussion of his experience in practice.

Past Events
• Thursday, April 8, 2010 - 8:00 - 9:30 p.m. - Mountain View
  Michelle Friedland (Stanford Law 2000) of Munger Tolles & Olson hosted a discussion on "Maintaining large pro bono practice at a law firm" and "Working part time at a law firm while raising kids."
• Thursday, March 25, 2010 - 6:00 - 7:30 p.m. - San Francisco
  Anna Pletcher (UC Berkeley 2005) of the U.S. Dept. of Justice Antitrust Division (now on assignment to the N.D. Cal. U.S. Attorney's Office) hosted a discussion regarding various aspects of government work, including hiring, the nature of the work, the influence of politics, work-life balance, and moral dilemmas prosecutors/defenders face.
• Thursday, March 25, 2010 - 6:00 - 7:30 p.m. - San Francisco
  Isaac Bowers (NYU Law 2007) was a Fellow at Shute, Mihaly & Weinberger LLP from 2007 through 2009. He has been involved in litigation brought under state environmental laws, such as CEQA and the Williamson Act, and has worked with state and local agencies on a variety of environmental, land use and planning issues.
• Thursday, March 18, 2010 - 6:00 - 7:30 p.m. - San Francisco
  Yohance Edwards(NYU Law 2003) of Munger, Tolles & Olson hosted a discussion about the joys and challenges of representing individuals in a large law firm setting (including executives from Apple, Brocade, and Whole Foods).
• Wednesday, March 17, 2010 - 6:00 - 7:30 p.m. - Berkeley
  John Duchemin (U. Chicago Law 2006) of Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin hosted a discussion on the life of an associate in the appellate practice.
• Wednesday, March 10, 2010 - 6:00 - 7:30 p.m. - San Francisco
  Jahan Sagafi (Harvard Law 2001) of Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein hosted a discussion about his work on class actions against Abercrombie (race discrimination), IBM and Wal-Mart (overtime pay), and auto lending companies (race discrimination).
• Thursday, February 25, 2010 - 6:00 - 9:00 p.m. - Berkeley
  Jim Brosnahan (Harvard Law 1959) of Morrison & Foerster (former president of the Bar Ass'n of San Francisco) hosted a dinner discusion at his home, with the theme "The practice of law and the public interest."
• Wednesday, February 24, 2010 - 6:00 - 7:30 p.m. - San Francisco
  Jaron Shipp (Howard Law 2005) of Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein and formerly of Latham & Watkins New York discussed plaintiff's firms vs. defense firms: the similarities, differences and everything in between from someone who has worked at both.
• Wednesday, February 24, 2010 - 6:00 - 7:30 p.m. - Oakland
  Informal meet and greet with public interest lawyers, including Angelica Jongco (NYU Law 2005) of Lewis, Feinberg, Lee, Renaker & Jackson; Claudia Pena (UCLA Law 2008) of the Equal Justice Society; Michelle Rodriguez (Columbia Law 2003) of Public Advocates; Jessie Warner (Boalt Hall 2005) of the East Bay Community Law Center and Nayantara Mehta (UC Berkeley 2006) of the Alliance for Justice.
• Wednesday, February 3, 2010 - 6:00 - 7:30 p.m. - San Francisco
  Christine Van Aken (NYU Law 2002) of the San Francisco City Attorney's Office hosted a discussion of life at the City Attorney's Office. She is involved in the trial regarding the constitutionality of Proposition 8, which banned gay marriage in California.

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