Catching a Glimpse Into Law Practice: Two Outstanding Opportunities

by Michelle Queirolo
Grad Fellow
 
Friday, March 27 Join LCS for a private tour and conversation at the General Assistance Advocacy Project (GAAP) or the Office of the San Francisco City Attorney.


General Assistance Advocacy Project (GAAP) is a prestigious non-profit corporation based in San Francisco that helps homeless and marginally housed San Franciscans to obtain public benefits. GAAP also provides free legal assistance and counseling in areas regarding collection disputes, clearing old out-of-state warrants to enable the continued receipt of public benefits, and assistance with landlord-tenant issues. In addition, GAAP provides individuals with resources such as blankets, free clothing vouchers, etc. to support members of the community.

The Office of the San Francisco City Attorney provides legal services to the Mayor, Board of Supervisors, San Francisco Unified School District and 94 other departments, board, commissions and offices of the City and County of San Francisco.

Tours will meet at LCS at 2:45 and travel to the respective offices via public transportation. Students must rsvp on LCSonline in the “Events” tab by March 25.

Catching a Glimpse Recap

This year's Catching a Glimpse series was another success! LCS arranged private tours at several organizations to give 1Ls an inside view of law practice. We would like to thank the following alumni and attorneys for being kind enough to host these tours:

• Bayview/Hunter's Point Community Legal (Adrian Tirtanadi)
• DLA Piper (Erin Frazor JD 07, Maureen Doran JD 10 LLM 12, Jamil McClintock JD 13)
• United States Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit (Kathleen Butterfield, Ken Sogabe JD 01)
• San Francisco Public Defender's Office (Elizabeth Hilton)
• United States Postal Service (Kathryn Carroll JD 11)
• Kazan, McClain, Satterley & Greenwood (Steven Kazan, Autumn Mesa JD 03)

On February 7, students took a tour of the U.S. Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit.

On February 21, students visited the law firm of Kazan, McClain, Satterley & Greenwood to tour the offices and speak with Kazan associate and GGU Law alumna Autumn Mesa, as well as Steven Kazan, about the firm's work.

Catching a Glimpse: Don't miss out on upcoming tours!

By Victoria Capinpin
LCS Graduate Fellow

Each Spring semester, LCS arranges for small groups of first-year students to visit different legal employers and meet with attorneys who work there. This is a great opportunity to meet GGU alumni and other attorneys in a small group setting, as well as to make your application stand out if you plan to apply to one of these office in the future. There are only couple of upcoming tours left so don't miss out!

All tours take place on Friday afternoons from approximately 2:40 to 5:00 pm and require advance registration. Space is limited and students may only select one tour; RSVP required in the "Events" tab on LCSonline.

NEXT WEEK'S TOURS: Friday, February 21, 2014

• United States Postal Service - legal offices in San Francisco (offering unique employment and labor, tort, procurement and property, ethics, and corporate law opportunities--plus they love hiring GGU grads!)
• Kazan, McClain, Satterley & Greenwood in Jack London Square in Oakland (a plaintiffs litigation firm with over 20 lawyers--they frequently hire GGU students as law clerks, and several have gone on to become attorneys there!)

Last week, students went on three tours:

• DLA Piper (international commercial law firm)
• United States Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit
• San Francisco Public Defender's Office (students got to spend time with Public Defender Jeff Adachi!)

GGU 1Ls who went on last week's Catching a Glimpse tour of the 9th Circuit.

An Opportune Visit to the Ninth Circuit

Last week, I joined 18 GGU law students on a tour of the Ninth Circuit courthouse in San Francisco. Led by a friendly and knowledgeable staff attorney named Kathleen Butterfield, the tour gave us some beautiful vantage points of different courtrooms, hallways and meeting rooms used by the Judges, as well as fun and fascinating facts about the inner workings of the Court. We also got to hear from a third-year GGU student doing an externship at the Ninth Circuit. Our visit was timely, coming on the heels of the Proposition 8 ruling and the eve of the Proposition 209 hearing. Our visit was also timely given the recent confirmation of GGU’s own alumna Morgan Christen to the Ninth Circuit. Stay tuned for more of these Catching A Glimpse visits to different legal settings. You’ll find word about them in Law School News and on LCSonline.

- Jared Solovay