UCLA is in the process of soliciting applications for the 2020 Law Fellows Program. The Law Fellows Program provides early academic development to high-potential undergraduate students and college graduates, with at least a 3.3 cumulative GPA at a four-year undergraduate institution. The initial deadline is October 11, 2019. For any additional information, please contact the program at (310) 794-4157 or Outreach@law.ucla.edu. Miller Nash ...
The South Asian Bar Association of Southern California (SABA-SC) is looking for attorneys to serve as mentors in its Mentorship Program, which will launch on October 22, 2019 at the annual Mentorship Reception at Nixon Peabody. The Mentorship Program matches both students and junior attorneys with experienced attorneys according to geographic proximity and/or practice area of interest. After the Reception, which serves as a ...
The South Asian Bar Association of Southern California (“SABA-SC”) Public Interest Foundation is now accepting grant applications. The Foundation gives preference to organizations that offer services to the South Asian American community in Southern California, especially communities that are underserved. The SABA-SC Public Interest Foundation provides thousands of dollars of grant funds every year to organizations supporting our community. Grant ...
Please save the date for our annual SABA-SC Mentorship Reception at the gorgeous downtown Los Angeles office of Nixon Peabody on Tuesday, October 22, 2019 at 6:00 pm. Purvi Patel, Partner at Morrison Foerster, is this year’s Mentor of the Year. Ms. Patel is a recognized leader in the South Asian legal community and those who have been fortunate enough to ...
SABA-SC is proud to endorse the nomination of former SABA San Diego President Shireen Matthews to the position of federal judge in the Southern District of California. If confirmed, Ms. Matthews will be the first South Asian to serve as an Article III federal judge in the Southern District of California and the first South Asian female to serve as a federal judge ...
Puneet Toor, SABA-SC 2019-2020 Executive Board, Secretary Ms. Toor is the founder of Toor Law, APC where she specializes in personal injury, products liability, employment law and consumer fraud litigation. Ms. Toor has experience in both individual and class action suits on behalf of employees who have been wrongfully terminated, harassed or retaliated against in the workplace as well as catastrophically injured plaintiffs ...
Thanks to everyone who joined us at Knobbe Martens on August 21 for our In-House Attorney Panel. The panel discussion was lively and engaging. Our panelists, Ashok Tripathi, Jigna Patel, Vivek Narayanadas, and Sharmini Green, provided their insights regarding, among other things, the path toward becoming an in-house lawyer, what they look for in hiring outside counsel, and recent trends ...
Not to be outdone by their Orange County cohorts, the SABA-SC LA Events Team put together a fun summer mixer and professional clothing drive on August 5. Thanks to everyone who attended for drinks & mingling. And thanks to Kiren Ahuja at Hulu and Roma Patel at Buchalter for organizing the event! Learn more about Kiren and Roma in our ...
Kiren Ahuja Kiren is Hulu’s newest Associate Counsel. She was previously a transactional associate with Davis, Wright, Tremaine in the technology, advertising & entertainment practice group. At DWT, she represented clients in the entertainment and digital media sector on a wide variety of transactional matters, including the negotiation and drafting of rights acquisition, development, production, and distribution agreements for motion picture ...
Thanks to everyone who joined us at McGlinchey Stafford for our Orange County Summer Mixer. The food was good, the wine was flowing, and the conversation was great! And a special thanks to Dhruv Sharma, one of our incredible Orange County Events Directors, for putting it all together. Dhruv belongs to McGlinchey Stafford’s commercial litigation practice. McGlinchey Stafford is a ...