Posts Tagged ‘hastings’
Friday, March 5th, 2010
Three of these youts (possibly Academy of Art students) crossing Divisidero the other night got a lesson about NOPA courtesy of a fourth, who was in Sightsee M.C. mode.
First, WiFi-enabled and MacBook-heavy Cafe Abir got dismissed as the ”Hastings* Study Group.” And actually, the phrase ”The Future Lawyers of America” was bandied about.
And then the whole of the new North of Panhandle Area got dismissed as being “just like the suburbs.”
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Ouch. Kids these days…
*College of Law, University of California – the oldest, largest and fifth (or sixth) best law school in California.
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Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
California’s fifth or sixth-best law school will be getting a new leader as of July 1, 2010, when Howard University’s Frank H. Wu will become the dean at U.C. Hastings in San Francisco’s gritty Tenderloin.
Frank’s no stranger to the bay area, having taught at Stanfoo and also having worked for Mofo (that’s the nickname for San Francisco’s historic white-shoe law firm Morrison and Foerster, srsly) representing tenants against landlords pro bono back in the 1990’s.
Meet Frank Wu:
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Per SFGate:
“Wu, a Michigan native, has said he changed his career plans from architecture to law as a teenager in response to the racially motivated* murder of a young Chinese American man in Detroit in 1982.”
“First, he said the curriculum should be structured to ensure graduates have real-world legal skills when they leave, such as taking depositions, negotiating deals, and reading balance sheets.
Second, students should be prepared to work in a global economy that is driven by Pacific Rim nations. “The global economy is not the future. It’s here and now,” he said. “I see us recruiting students and placing them in Seoul and Saigon.”
Additionally, Wu said the school is too reliant on state funding and he intends to launch its first capital campaign.”
Bon courage, Frank Wu.
All the deets after the jump.
*How about partially racially-motivated instead? If you kill somebody with a baseball bat in San Francisco these days and then admit it to the cops, you’re going to do some hard time, no doubt. But back in the day if you and your stepson killed somebody with a baseball bat in Detroit, Michigan, well, you might have been able to walk with probation and a $30/week restitution plan. It all had to do with a runaway judge and some county prosecutors who made a plea bargain deal and then no-showed the sentencing hearing, and later on, some feds who got caught committing prosecutorial misconduct. Why do voters support mandatory minimum sentencing and three-strikes type laws in the aughts? Because of cases like that of Vincent Chin in the 1980’s. Just saying.
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Tags: 198, 200, American, asian, book, chancellor, chinese, civic center, dean, district, Frank H. Wu, Frank Wu, hastings, hyde, mcallister, pacific rim, Race in America Beyond Black and White, students, tenderloin, UC, uc hastings, university of california, vincent chin, yellow
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Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
The thing about college administrators is that they love attention. So yesterday’s news of the somewhat ridiculous lawsuit fighting the non-discrimination policies for student clubs at the University of California, Hastings College of Law is nothing but a good thing for the oldest and largest law school west of the Mississippi.
If I were running the Christian Law Society (CLS), I wouldn’t ask my fellow students and/or the taxpayers to fund my little $250/year transportation fund, but that’s me. In any event, let’s expect the Supremes to smack down the CLS with finality next year, and thereby make this matter crystal clear for All. (I mean, they’re looking at this case for a reason, right?)
This was the scene last night, with the news vans parked betwixt the 200 McAllister Building and McAllister Tower (aka The Towers).
See you next year, when this all gets sorted out.
Fiat Justitia!
Tags: 2009, 2010, christian, christian law society, civic center, club, college, discrimination, fee, hastings, law, lawsuit, San Francisco, school, supreme court, transportation, UC, university of california
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Monday, August 3rd, 2009
New Recreation and Park Department Director Phil Ginsburg probably beat you out of bed yesterday morning, based upon this account written up in his new SF Rec and Park Blog. (Phil went to UC Hastings College of Law, so he’s just another blogging lawyer that you don’t know is a lawyer, like Richmond District Police Captain Corriea and his Richmond District Police Community Relations Forum, for one.)
Read “Day 21: A Visit Through GGP at Dawn” to learn about Golden Gate Park’s overnight camping rules and how the Park Rangers enforce them.
You know people are camping in GGP when you see all those empty propane bottles strewn about:
And check it:
“I’m told there are actually underground websites that inform people on how and where to camp illegally in Golden Gate Park.”
Did not know that.
Anyway, check out the blog if you want to see Phil’s impressions of this and that.
Tags: administration, blog, campers, crime, dawn, department, department sfgov, director, ginsberg, ginsbur, golden gate park, government, hastings, homeless, morning, park, patrol, phil, police, rangers, rec and park, recreation and park, San Francisco, SFPD, UC
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Thursday, July 16th, 2009
This huge Pabst Blue Ribbon mural on 7th Street is arresting, no? (Do the people at the beloved and hugely-trafficked (hundreds of thousands of visitors monthly) Laughing Squid website know about this yet?)
Free public art, and yet, some scowl:
“Wow they finally figured out a way to combine the two of the things hipsters love most….Pabst and Cephalopods. If only they could have figured a way to get some yarn or felt in there?”
“I Am Pabst- by Jacob White, Los Gatos, CA.” Click to expand:
As seen in front of the McAllister Tower part of Hastings College of Law, University of California, which is a just a ”15 minute walk from Little Saigon.” (Ah yes, Hastings, where the “impoverished” students never drive German cars, and never power their marijuana grow lamps with unmetered electricity at the 100 McAllister dorms. Heavens no.)
Here’s a larger version for you to click on. How would you compare it with what they have in Kansas City? Or Minneapolis? Or Seattle? Or Boise? Is the artist referencing The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and The Royal Tenenbaums? Food for thought.
Actually, this is almost like a national ad campaign. Oh well. Check the gallery for 2007 and 2008. Enter the PBArt contest for next year, why not?
T-shirts available.
By now, you should feel like getting some smokes as well some ice-cold PBRs – after all, it’s a Pabst Summer:
As seen in Alamo, CA.
Tags: $100, 7th, annual, beer, blue ribbon, ca, california, can, civic center, contest, dorms, giant, hastings, hipster, hotel, i am pabst, jacob, lager, los gats, market, mcallister, mid market, mural, pabst, painting, pbart, pbr, player, San Francisco, socks, squid, street, sweatband, tennis, tower, tube, uc hastings, wes anderson, white
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Wednesday, May 20th, 2009
Well, here it is. After all kinds of stress and strife, the University of California, Hastings College of the Law parking garage / multi-use building in the Civic Center / Tenderloin area (aka Little Saigon) looks done from the outside.
Soon the legal eaglets at the largest and oldest law school in the West (yes, older than vaunted Boalt Hall across the estuary in Berkeley) will be able to easily descend from their nests at historic 100 McAllister or the “Book Concern Building” to get to their small German cars - without hogging up spaces at the Civic Center Parking Garage (aka Victory Garden Basement).
Note the “sickly green tiling” put in by the Vanishing Construction Workers of San Francisco County.
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It’s up… and it’s good! Three points for UC Hastings.
Tags: $100, Berkeley, book concern building, buildings, civic center, college, concrete, construction, economy, garage, hastings, jobs, law, little saigon, parking, pour, San Francisco, school, tenderloin, tower, UC, university of california, workers
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Monday, April 13th, 2009
It’ll be on this Thursday at UC Hastings School of Law in the Civic Center, because the Hastings Business Law Journal is putting on an all-day symposium: Beyond the Bailout. It’s going to be mega. The Keynote Speaker will be Lynn E. Turner, former Chief Accountant for the SEC, but you’ll also be able to hear from some locals, such as Staff Writer for the San Francisco Chronicle Carolyn Said.
You lawyers might also be able to get some Minimum Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) credit, so why not? Here’s the agenda and there are more deets below.
See you there!
Hastings Business Law Journal Symposium – “Beyond the Bailout”
Start: 4/16/2009 from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM
Location: 200 McAllister, Alumni Reception Center
You have heard about the credit crisis and the national bailout in the news, now come and listen to esteemed professionals and renowned professors speak on the subject at the Hastings Business Law Journal’s symposium, “Beyond the Bailout: Risk, Responsibility and the Road Ahead”.
Topics that will be addressed include:
- The scope and effects of the crisis on the financial real estate markets both in the U.S. and abroad
- Regulating risk and how regulators failed to make credit-rating agencies, banks, and securities firms rein in their risk before the crisis
- How to bring values to Wall Street to reduce corruption and fraud
- Innovation and the resurgence of the Bay Area and beyond
We have the privilege of hosting Mr. Lynn Turner, the former chief accountant for the Securities and Exchange Commission, as the keynote speaker. Turner recently testified at the congressional hearing on the collapse of AIG.
Come with your questions and expect a fresh, intellectual, and multi-faceted discussion of the economic crisis.
Lunch and snacks will be served. Please click here to view the entire program, including a detailed list of speakers and more.
NOTE: MCLE credit available!
Speakers
Keynote Speaker Lynn E. Turner, former Chief Accountant for the SEC
Professor Jo. Carrillo – UC Hastings Law
Professor Joel Paul - UC Hastings Law
Professor Heather Field – UC Hastings Law
Ms. Rhyen Cooms - Photographic Journalist
John Hunt – UC Berkeley, Research Director and Law Fellow
Professor Reza Dibadj – USF Law School, author of “Rescuing Regulation”
Professor Talbot – USF Law School, Director of Center of Investor Justice
Carolyn Said – Staff Writer for the San Francisco Chronicle
Professor Denise Kleinrichert – San Francisco State University: Graduate School of Business,
Professor Bruce McNamara – UC Hastings Law, Partner and head of the Corporate Governance and Transactions practice at Perkins Coie
Professor Ward Hanson – Policy Forum Director of Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
Mr. Rob LaFave – Chief Executive Officer of Foodzie
Ilya Spivak – Currency Analyst at Forex Capital Markets
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Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
Now back in the day, it was easy to see construction workers on the job. All you had to do was look up through the I-beams and see them walking around. Those were the days, see?
But these days, due to changing construction techniques using concrete, rebar, and whatnot, you need to get above the workers to see them at labor. These folks are mostly out of view after the first floor gets done. Here, they work on the third floor.
Pretty soon, you wont see the cars of UC Hastings Law School students and staff clogging up the parking spaces of Civic Center and Little Saigon thanks to this new mixed-use building that’s still going up.
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The other problem with seeing these people at work is that these jobs are drying up lately.
Good-bye construction workers of San Francisco. See you again in a year or two?
Tags: buildings, civic center, college, concrete, construction, economy, garage, hastings, jobs, law, little saigon, parking, pour, San Francisco, school, tenderloin, UC, university of california, workers
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Monday, September 22nd, 2008
A couple hundred people flowed through the doors of UC Hastings College of Law over the weekend to take advantage of the free Citizenship Workshop put on by the office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
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There were lots of reporters on hand, so the Speaker spoke out on the issue of the day:
“The government must stabilize the financial system because if we don’t, it will have a tremendous impact on American consumers, homeowners, taxpayers and the rest.” But, she added, “We cannot deal with this unless this bailout helps families stay in their homes.”
Look forward to more convenient one-day workshops similar to this from our Representative in Congress.
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Thursday, September 18th, 2008
Just like last year, and the year before, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is sponsoring a United States Citizen Workshop to help those who have green cards become U.S. Citizens.
So, if you’ve had your green card for a few years and want to become a citizen, you should RSVP at (888) 841-8801, gather up your materials, and then go to UC Hastings College of Law at 198 McAllister this Saturday, September 20th, 2008. When you call Nancy’s office, they will tell you about the documents you need to bring in so they can help you get all set to submit the tricky N-400 form to the government.
There’ll be experts on hand this Saturday, like attorney Joren Lyons of the Asian Law Caucus, who can answer questions and put you on the right path to citizenship.
See you there!
On Saturday, September 20, 2008, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will host a citizenship workshop in San Francisco to provide free assistance to residents who are eligible to become American citizens.
For most immigrants, becoming a United States’ citizen is the culmination of many years of hard work. Yet many permanent residents who are eligible to apply for citizenship fail to do so because they do not know they are eligible, do not know where to begin the process, or cannot afford to hire someone to assist them with the complicated form.
Speaker Pelosi’s Citizenship Workshop will take place on Saturday, September 20 from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at UC Hastings, 198 McAllister Street, in San Francisco.
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