SDLRLA is proud to co-present the San Diego County Bar Association’s Dialogue on Diversity “Hot Topics and Trends in Diversity and Inclusion: What All Attorneys Need to Know” The event will be Wednesday, September 17 from 5:30 – 6:30 p.m., followed by a mixer. Registration begins at 5:00 p.m. The program offers 1 hour of...
San Diego La Raza Lawyers Association’s Professional Advancement Committee PRESENTS Legal Success: The Latino Experience Speakers: John Gomez, Principal, Gomez Trial Attorneys Lilia Garcia, Office of the District Attorney Guillermo Escobedo, Shareholder, Jackson Lewis, PC Moderated by: Eran Bermudez, Partner, Garcia Hernandez Sawhney & Bermudez LLP At Gomez Trial Attorneys, Courtroom 655 W Broadway, Suite 1700...
BREAKING NEWS! EDWARD JAMES OLMOS TO BE KEYNOTE SPEAKER AT THE 2014 SDLRLA SCHOLARSHIP FUND GALA DINNER! Known for such roles as Lt. Martin Castillo in Miami Vice, Jaime Escalante in Stand and Deliver, Admiral William Adama in Battlestar Galactica and Prof. James Gellar in Dexter, just to name a few, Mr. Olmos is also...
Children at our Border: Questions and Answers about Children Fleeing Violence in Central America, is a new ADL website dedicated to the humanitarian situation at the border In response to anti-immigrant rhetoric that demonizes and dehumanizes children fleeing violence, ADL issued this call for civility in the debate. ADL joined in a Jewish community statement that emphasizes the need to ensure that...
San Diego La Raza Lawyers Association Scholarship Fund is a nonprofit charitable corporation that provides scholarships to law students who have contributed to the Latino community. Our awards go to students who have met our criteria of community service, financial need, hardship and academic achievement. The awards are not limited to persons of a Latino/Latina...
2014 Attorney of the Year Nominations – Now Open! Every year at the Annual Gala & Dinner, SDLRLA presents an “Attorney of the Year” award to an outstanding lawyer in the community. Past recipients include Kevin Keenan, Jose Garza Badillo, Victor Torres, Carmen Chavez, Yuri Calderon, Michael Perez, and John Gomez. We are looking for...
SDLRLA was one of eleven organizations to sign on to a formal complaint against the County of San Diego Department of Probation about the excessive use of pepper spray in San Diego Juvenile Detention Facilities. The 34-page complaint, including 170 exhibits, asks the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division to investigate the probation department and order it...
Wednesday, September 24, 2014 6:00 – 9:00 p.m. San Diego Hall of Champions 2131 Pan American Plaza Bringing San Diego legal professionals together to benefit children in need, the San Diego Chapter of the Association of Legal Administrators, in partnership with the Lawyers Club of San Diego, the Mother Attorney Mentoring Association of San Diego, the San...
Border Angels is a non-profit organization supporting humanity. The organization consists of extraordinary volunteers who want to stop unnecessary deaths of individuals traveling through the Imperial Valley desert areas and the mountain areas surrounding San Diego County, as well as the areas located around the United States and Mexican border. The high percentage of unnecessary...
The Informed Voters Project, a project of The National Association of Women Judges, is a non-partisan voter education project developed to increase public awareness about the judicial system, to inform voters that politics and special interest attacks have no place in the courts, and to give voters the tools they need to exercise an informed vote in...