BASF Appellate Section

01/09/2018

BASF's Appellate Practice Section has two major objectives:

1. to provide suggestions to state and federal appellate courts to improve processes and establish procedures that are clear, fair, and efficient

2. to provide continuing education programs for both appellate specialists and other lawyers in an effort to upgrade the quality of practice in the appellate courts

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The CLE department at The Bar Association of San Francisco provides over 200 seminars annually, covering a broad range of legal education topics.

11/30/2017

Republican lawyers and lawmakers are working together to install conservative judges on the influential federal appeals courts at a clip not seen in decades.

11/30/2017

Check out SFBar member Ben Feuer of the California Appellate Law Group - he was on the KGO 810 Ronn Owens show talking about the Supreme Court!

Ben Feuer - Chairman of the California Appellate Law Group. ( a 15-lawyer Appllate boutique based in San Francisco that practices in the California Appellate courts, the Ninth Circuit, and the US S...

11/28/2017

In honor of 9th Circuit Judge Harry Pregerson, who passed away this weekend at age 94 and was one of the most liberal judges ever to sit on a federal court, here's an article SFBar member Ben Feur wrote a couple of years ago for The Recorder about his influence:

Judge Harry Pregerson's decision to take senior status marks a milestone for the famously liberal court writes Ben Feuer.

11/12/2017

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals' website broadcast a panel that Appellate Section Executive Committee member Ben Feuer hosted for the SFBar about the effects on constitutional law of the decision in Korematsu v. United States, the Supreme Court case that upheld the government's authority to intern and imprison individuals of Japanese-American ethnicity during World War II.

Because all the 9th Circuit broadcasts get put on Youtube, the program is available if anyone is interested. It features Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, Retired Judge Marilyn Hall Patel, Stanford professor Jane Schacter, and attorney Don Tamaki, who at one point represented Fred Korematsu himself.

10/04/2017

Coming up on October 25 from 6:00-7:15 p.m.: Thoughts on with Ninth Circuit Chief Judge Sidney Thomas.

If you practice in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, you should come to this program.

Chief Judge Sidney Thomas, based in Montana and appointed by President Bill Clinton, is the most powerful judge on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

As Chief, he sits on every en banc panel. He also oversees judicial misconduct complaints and directs court policy at large.

Register: http://www.sfbar.org/calendar/eventdetail.aspx?id=G175305/G175305

09/20/2017

Save the date for our next program coming up on Tuesday, October 10 - "2017 U.S. Supreme Court Preview."

The term that many think may be Justice Kennedy's last is shaping up to be a blockbuster

Speakers include:
Rory Little
Professor of Law, UC Hastings

Mark Storslee
Executive Director, Constitutional Law Center, Stanford Law

Anna-Rose Mathieson
California Appellate Law Group

Joshua Klein
Office of the California Solicitor General

Moderators:
Ben Feuerr
California Appellate Law Group

Josh Patashnik
Munger Tolles & Olson

Register now: http://www.sfbar.org/calendar/eventdetail.aspx?id=G175304/G175304

04/06/2017

Our next program, on April 18 at 6 pm.

Membership to The Bar Association of San Francisco offers legal professionals discounts and services in a variety of areas; CLE programs, practice management, business products and legal publications.

07/17/2016

On Tuesday, August 16th at Noon: Join us for a discussion of the "Latest U.S. Supreme Court Decisions Affecting Business"

Membership to The Bar Association of San Francisco offers legal professionals discounts and services in a variety of areas; CLE programs, practice management, business products and legal publications.

05/10/2016

TOMORROW -- Wed. May 11, 6:15 pm. Should be a fascinating event, we hope you can make it!

Membership to The Bar Association of San Francisco offers legal professionals discounts and services in a variety of areas; CLE programs, practice management, business products and legal publications.