The Bar Association of San Francisco

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The Justice & Diversity Center (JDC) is one of the largest and most distinguished legal services providers in San Francisco.

JDC’s primary purpose is the delivery of free legal services to low-income San Franciscans, as well as the non-profits that serve them.

JDC delivers free legal services through its Legal Services Programs division, which consists of the Pro Bono Legal Services Program, Homeless Advocacy Project, and Immigration program.

JDC provides enrichment programs to diverse youth and young adults through its Diversity Educational Programs.

JDC’s programs serve approximately 9,500 disadvantaged San Franciscans a year, with the overarching goal of assisting the community’s most vulnerable members with accessing the judicial system and strengthening their personal, professional, and economic security.

Learn more about JDC: www.sfbar.org/jdc

Mission

The Justice & Diversity Center advances fairness and equality by providing pro bono legal services to low-income people and educational programs that foster diversity in the legal profession.

Address: 301 Battery St, San Francisco, CA 94111, USA

Phone: (415) 982-1600

Website

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State: California

Zip Code: 94111

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I don't think anything or anyone in California Cates about others.. this association is corrupt it has malice and sinister interest. Do not trust this nation. America is devided has no such thing as freedom or protection of anything.  This association will let lawyers get away with murder .. it is corrupt The whole state is corrupt

 9 years ago (23-08-2017)

After being swindled out of our family home to a convicted felon who is currently out on bail in San Francisco, I begged every lawyer in The Bar Association of San Francisco, including the Lawyer that runs it Carolyn Gold.  They offered no help at all.  I begged them to help us get our home back and file a lawsuit for fraud but all of them flat out ignored us even when they knew that I had a child under 10 years old and in school.  How dare you call yourselves lawyers! you all disgust me.

 10 years ago (03-02-2017)

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 9 years ago (02-10-2017)

I contacted The Bar Association of San Francisco so that I could contact a lawyer, to pay them to explain questions that I have regarding employment law, references, the risk of soliciting unlisted references for information, and how it all dovetails into academics, having presently found myself in a very tenuous situation, and not of my own making.  All of this communication could and would have been electronic with no need for transit.

The person on the other end of the phone at The Bar Association of San Francisco was a pushy, rude individual, who, after cutting me off while answering their questions once or twice, was told to "just hang up" from the background, now that the straining 5 minutes was up, and gave me two phone numbers for other Bar Associations that have not helped.  Thank you, sir.  After having spoken to you, I doubt I could dislike NorCal anymore than I do now, and I am no fan of SoCal either.

The point that the functionary had trouble with was this:
I am currently in a very unique position as I have been an employee, who became a student at a University (#1), who recently became both a student and employee while trying to finish a graduate program.  When I entered as an employee, I provided a list of professional/character references; but, either before or, in preparation for entering the academic program (outside the expertise of the lawyer most likely), an extra reference was solicited from a previous advisor of mine (University #2) who disliked me immensely, and likely portrayed me as a gross and detrimental abstraction of what I am (I have a mental illness that follows the correct regimen and I am compliant with my Doctor).  When I joined University #2, prior and during my previous advisor's guidance/malignance (he REALLY did not like me, and I don't know why), the illness fulminated and I had some breakthrough issues due to misdiagnosis and the prescription of improper, exacerbating pharmacology.  No accommodations were made at anytime by University #2 under Section 504 of the 1973 Rehabilitation Act, and all this information was used out of context as an employment reference for University #1 by the advisor at #2, and it has followed me through employment, being a student, and until now, eroding my academic success as I have transitioned from one advisor to another two years ago.  My planned questions were simple: what limitations are there on what can legally be asked of a non-listed reference, what recourse is there for defamation and fallacy being used for personal reasons to prevent hiring (I had been blacklisted by unsuccessfully getting a job after University #2 for 6 months; during the recession for 2 years, from being admitted into a graduate program, and having oblique references made to what the malignant advisor would most likely have said.  Blacklisting and defamation are strong words, but apt and likely true.  Finally I wanted to know what if anything could be done to explain the transfer of information from an employer in a lab, who is also an academic, to another academic (i.e. my second boss after the first failed tenure), and which has caused me trouble since.

That was it.  That was all for which I needed the reference.  It is actually a straightforward request so long as someone's ability to speak is not hamstrung or a careful reading is undertaken.

If I could rate the California Bar Association any lower, I would.  This was the least professional treatment I've ever experienced amongst attorneys or their representatives; the experience was more like what I imaging bad speed dating to be like.

 11 years ago (12-01-2016)

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