Category Archives: Announcements

Hot off the presses, the February 2012 Nota Bene is now available online! Nota Bene will be published every other month. If you have any ideas for, or contributions to, Nota Bene, please contact one of our co-editors (contact informaton … Continue reading →

ABAS will begin holding monthly happy hours on the first Wednesday of each month at Il Fornaio. The first one will be on March 7, 2012, at 5:30. Please join us for a no-host happy hour to beat the mid-week … Continue reading →

MCLE Lunch. ABAS is pleased to have Patrice Truman, Esq., a jury and trial consultant, present “Biases in Jury Selection” on Thursday, March 15, 2012. The program will explain the conscious and unconscious biases jurors have and how they may … Continue reading →

Please join ABAS members, friends, and law students for a bowling mixer on Saturday, February 11, 2012, from 10:30-12:30 at AMF Land Park Lanes, 5850 Freeport Boulevard. The event is free for members and $10 for non-members. Please RSVP to … Continue reading →

The ABAS Law Foundation awards scholarships to law students and very recent law school graduates from local law schools who have demonstrated potential for community service and leadership in the Asian-Pacific Islander community, academic achievement, and financial need. The application deadline is February … Continue reading →

Sacramento-area law students are encouraged to apply for the ABAS Unity Bar Scholarship. The Unity Bar dinner will be held on October 20, 2011, at the Doubletree Hotel in Sacramento. The deadline to apply for the scholarship is September 23, … Continue reading →

Yesterday, August 31, 2011, the three-member panel of the California Commission on Judicial Appointments unanimously confirmed Professor Goodwin H. Liu’s nomination to the California Supreme Court. He will be sworn in as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California … Continue reading →

ABAS members and friends will be making a road trip to the Angel Island Immigration Station, a national historic site in the San Francisco Bay, on July 30. The bus has sold out, but if you’re interested, you can meet up with … Continue reading →

1st Annual API Night with the Sacramento Rivercats – July 14, 2011. ABAS joined with other API organizations to watch the Rivercats play the Fresno Grizzlies (Giants AAA team).

On May 10, 2011, ABAS sent a letter to Assembly Majority Leader Charles Calderon asking for an apology for his May 5 remarks about Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye.