Even as a number of their firefighters were deployed to distant locations around California where an onslaught of summer fires has been keeping the state on edge, the Alameda Fire Department carved out time to conduct its Annual Pancake Breakfast yesterday, July 29, as a charity fundraiser for the Alisa Ann Ruch Burn Foundation. Boxer & Gerson attorneys […]
Boxer & Gerson Partner Maria Grasso took part in a two-person attorney panel last week with Jose Padilla, the executive director of California Rural Legal Assistance, as the veteran lawyers addressed a prelaw boot camp organized by Centro Legal de la Raza’s Diversity Legal Pipeline (DLP). The program was held at the Alameda County Law Library […]
After a successful venture honing its barbecue skills in the inaugural Teamsters Horsemen Chapter 7 West BBQ Cook-off, Bike & Car Show last summer, Boxer & Gerson’s vaunted Barbecue Team will return to the scene at Swiss Park in Newark next month. The firm will again serve as a sponsor and participate directly in the […]
Boxer & Gerson recently lost a dear friend, about whom we would like to say a few words. Lou Marchetti was a longtime member of Teamsters Local 70, as was his father before him. He was a union man, through and through. Lou passed away on May 27. His loss has reverberated throughout the Bay […]
Twenty-two year-old Jasmine Orozco is scheduled to head to Panama this summer as part of a volunteer medical corps sent by Global Medical Brigades, an international nonprofit dedicated to promoting the economic and health needs of remote, rural communities in four nations: Nicaragua, Honduras, Panama, and Ghana. Orozco, the daughter of Carolina Garcia, a 13-year veteran secretary at Boxer & […]
Boxer & Gerson attorneys Maria Grasso and Arjuna Farnsworth traveled north to Marin County on May 18 to discuss workers’ compensation law with a group from Legal Aid of Marin and the Canal Community Alliance. The visit served to help educate staff members and others involved with the two community groups so they can in turn better inform clients who come to them […]
Lilian Lopez, a 2014 summer legal intern for Boxer & Gerson under the auspices of Centro Legal de la Raza’s Youth Law Academy (YLA), is headed to law school next fall at the University of California, Davis. This notable achievement is further enhanced by her status as the first graduate of the YLA program ever to […]