21-Day Racial Equity Habit-Building Challenge
21-Day Racial Equity Habit-Building Challenge The ACBA announces our participation in the “21-Day Racial Equity Habit-Building Challenge ©,” and we invite you to join us. The 21-Day Challenge was created by diversity expert Eddie Moore, Jr. to advance deeper understandings of the intersections of race, power, privilege, supremacy and oppression. We will be kicking our […]
Rule of Law LAUROL Update
Rule of Law: House Judiciary Committee Hearing and Update The ACBA Board of Directors signed on to the LAUROL (Lawyers Allied to Uphold the Rule of Law) letter to members of the House Judiciary Committee on the importance of the Rule of Law in March. LAUROL recently sent the following update: We have remained in […]
Updates From Local Courts Week June 14th – 19th
Updates From Local Courts Week June 14th – 19th We’ve compiled updates from our local Superior Courts in one post. We’ll update this post as more information comes in this week. Superior Court of Alameda County June 16, 2020: Superior Court of Alameda County adopts emergency “zero bail” schedule and additional amendments to emergency Local […]
Opportunity to Represent Protesters
Want to use your legal skills to get involved with the #BlackLivesMatter Protests? The National Lawyers’ Guild would love support in the areas listed below. The most immediate need is for strong and aligned criminal defense attorneys. However, in the next few weeks they anticipate more needs around civil rights violations and eventually FBI investigations […]
Interview with Judge Richard Seabolt
Judge Richard L. Seabolt Shares His Thoughts and Provides Advice to the ACBA The Trial Practice section recently had the pleasure of meeting with Judge Richard L. Seabolt to conduct an interview for the Summer 2020 ACBA Trial Practice Section newsletter. Since January 1, 2020, Judge Seabolt, who sits in Dept. 521 of the Alameda […]