CONTACT: Gabriela Lopez, Immigration Committee Member, gabriela@oaklandclo.com, (415) 952-0597 The Immigration Committee of the National Lawyers Guild, San Francisco Bay Area, urges the Mexican government of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to cease collaborating...
On May 29, 2019, former National Lawyers Guild SF Bay Area Chapter (NLGSF) Program Director and current member Riva Enteen wrote an article for the Black Agenda Report and republished in the local BayView newspaper, titled “National Lawyers Guild Echoes Smear Campaign...
CONTACT: Jay Kim, Executive Director, NLGSF, jaykim@nlgsf.org, 415-285-5067 x104 The Immigration Committee of the National Lawyers Guild San Francisco Bay Area strongly condemns the appointment of Nicolas R. Ford as a judge in the San Francisco Immigration Court....
Guild members Carey Lamprecht, Yolanda Huang and Dennis Cunningham got a huge win this week in their lawsuit against Santa Rita jail. Santa Rita staff were torturing prisoners through sleep deprivation. As a result of fierce organizing from the imprisoned women at...
The National Lawyers Guild San Francisco Bay Area Chapter (NLGSF) strongly condemns the recent sentencing of Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh and calls for her immediate and unconditional release. Ms. Sotoudeh was arrested on June 13, 2018 without notice...
NLGSF mourns the recent passing of Jeff Adachi, San Francisco’s elected Public Defender and a long-time Guild supporter. Jeff was a true people’s lawyer. He aggressively defended those who most acutely felt the limitations and corruption of the criminal justice...
