Farella Braun + Martel LLP

Farella Braun + Martel is proud to be recognized as a winner of the 2024 Bay Area Best Places to Work, an awards program presented by the San Francisco Business Times and the Silicon Valley Business Journal. This is the 18th time Farella has earned the Bay Area Best Places to Work award. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gUyWGB8T #BestPlacesToWork #MidsizeLawFirm

Farella sponsored the San Francisco Superior Court Elimination of Bias Committee and Cal Law Pathways event, "Pathways to Justice: Exploring Careers," on October 25 at the Superior Court of California. Organized by Kelly Matayoshi, it brought 50 local community college students to the courthouse to learn about different careers – from being a judge to a bailiff to a court reporter or clerk. Kelly moderated, and Shanti Eagle spoke on the panel about what it is like to be an attorney.

Today's EO Radio Show episode is the second in a three-part series addressing several critical compliance topics relevant to international grantmaking by U.S. public charities and private foundations. These are the anti-terrorism rules, the income tax withholding rules, and special rules for private foundations. In this episode, Cynthia Rowland provides a brief overview of the income tax withholding rules that apply to payments for services and that come into play when making a grant to an international organization that provides some services in the United States. In episode 99 she launched this series with an episode focused on introducing the Patriot Act rules that apply to all grants, international and domestic, but there are particular interests when we're talking about international grantmaking. #EORadioShowPodcast #InternationalGrantmaking #NonprofitLaw #ExemptOrganizations

Join Jeffrey Hamilton and Ryan Lowther on November 12 for The Bar Association of San Francisco Cannabis Law Conference 2024, taking place in-person at the BASF offices in downtown San Francisco.   Are you a California lawyer in Group 1 for reporting MCLE compliance? Thanks to renowned speaker David Mann from The Other Bar, the BASF Cannabis Law Conference offers the chance to satisfy 1 hour of the "prevention & detection" component of the new attorney competence requirement at the California State Bar.    Do you care about cannabis laws in effect throughout California? Thanks to speaker California State Senator Scott Wiener (San Francisco), in conversation with Cannabis Law Section Chair Lara DeCaro, the BASF Cannabis Law Conference offers the chance to learn about statewide cannabis legislation and its impact locally.   And if a regulated cannabis market in the City and County of San Francisco is important to you, then you won't want to miss this chance for an update from the San Francisco Office of Cannabis, featuring speakers Director Nikesh Patel and Deputy Director Jeremy Schwartz.    After the CLE programming ends at 4:20 p.m., please join us for a reception.

Join Linda Sobczynski Gilleran and Donald Sobelman on November 14, for the session "Green Light or Red Flag? Critical Environmental Considerations in Real Estate Acquisitions." https://lnkd.in/gHVnZxxM #EnvironmentalLaw #RealEstate

Join Sarah Peterman Bell and Linda Sobczynski Gilleran at the Environmental Law Institutes' "Women Leaders at the Intersection of AI and the Environment" event on November 13." https://lnkd.in/geasymkE #WomenLeaders #Environment #AI

Cynthia Rowland, Hons Yung, and Ezekiel Gorrocino are hosting a CPA Luncheon on October 30. At the luncheon, they will explore the intriguing world of cross-border philanthropy through the lens of the Netflix movie "Holiday in the Wild." https://lnkd.in/gkfMYMJt #ExemptOrganizations #FamilyWealth #Philanthropy

The ACLU, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Southern California, and Farella Braun + Martel LLP today filed a lawsuit against several federal agencies to obtain records revealing the policies and standards at federal prisons and temporary soft-sided facilities used by immigration authorities to detain people who are immigrants. The lawsuit comes weeks after the agencies – which include the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) – failed to respond to two Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests submitted by ACLU SoCal in September 2024. The litigation is the ACLU’s latest effort to prepare for potential anti-immigrant actions in future presidential administrations. “Federal prisons and soft-sided facilities have been the source of myriad civil rights complaints and federal investigations in the past, yet little is known about the full extent of the conditions at these facilities,” said Jim Day, partner at Farella Braun +Martel. “We are pleased to be working with such a great organization and assisting it with this important work.” Learn more about the lawsuit: https://lnkd.in/gGHeGGTV

Farella is a proud sponsor of the Unified Patents 2024 Corporate IP Strategy Conference. Join Dan Callaway for the Panel 1 session "U.S. Patent Litigation & Monetization Strategies."

Congratulations to Thomas Mayhew for being recognized with a Housing Heroes Award for your work developing and pursuing a legal strategy to counteract the effects of restrictive local zoning laws to remove legal obstacles so that housing the Bay Area needs can be built.