Join us on April 26, 2025 to raise funds for NLG-SFBA and honor our CHAMPIONS OF JUSTICE!

EVENT UPDATE (4/8): We extended the deadline to get a journal ad to Saturday April 12th!

WE ARE THE ONES WHO PROTECT US
Annual Testimonial Dinner

Date: Saturday April 26, 2025 • 6pm - 9pm
Location: UC Law Auditorium • 198 McAllister Street • San Francisco, CA
 

Champions of Justice Honorees

Jonathan H. Siegel  •  Love and Justice in the Streets

Get your tickets & purchase ad space in the journal!

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⟡ EVENT DETAILS ⟡

Join us on April 26th at our annual Testimonial Dinner, where we honor members and allies who are driven by the same values of equity and justice that guide NLG-SFBA’s work. This year we are excited to honor Jonathan Siegel and Love and Justice in the Streets for all that they've done for our communities.

The testimonial dinner is also our biggest fundraising event! Since our inception, we have been dedicated to mass defense and protecting the rights of demonstrators as the legal arm of the movement. The SF Bay Area chapter is one of the largest staffed NLG chapters in the country, and your contributions help us maintain that status. Being a staffed chapter means that we are able to have one of the most responsive and robust Legal Observer programs, we are able to remain close and responsive to our local membership, and we are able to host social events that keep us connected and build our resilience.

You can contribute by purchasing a ticket, getting an ad in this year's journal, or making a donation!

Accessibility: The venue is wheelchair accessible: there are elevators to get into the auditorium, there are bathrooms on the same floor, and there is a ramp onto the stage. Please contact us (contact@nlgsf.org) if you have any additional accessibility questions.

⟡ TICKETS ⟡

Your ticket covers your admission to the gala and includes a catered dinner and drinks.
All proceeds from this event will help us continue to support and defend organizers, activists, and social movements here in the Bay Area.

Price: $100/person
Discounted tickets ($40) available for students & legal workers
If the ticket cost is prohibitive for you, please reach out to us (contact@nlgsf.org). We may have a limited number of donated tickets available.

Get your tickets now!
Ticket deadline: April 18, 2025

⟡ JOURNAL ADS ⟡

Please support the NLG-SFBA & our Champions of Justice by purchasing an ad in the 2025 journal!
Ad deadline: April 12, 2025

• CHAMPIONS OF JUSTICE •

Jonathan H. Siegel has devoted his entire legal career to representing the labor movement. Jonathan started his legal career as staff counsel for the Guild’s National Labor Law Center, founded Oakland’s Siegel LeWitter Malkani, a labor & employment firm representing unions & employees, and made his mark representing labor activists and unions. He is unique among labor & employment lawyers due to his trifecta of skills & achievements: representing unions and union leaders activists in their fight to make the workplace better for workers; representing individual employees in trials of discrimination cases & representing employees and consumers in class actions over working conditions, terms and conditions of employment and seeking equal care for mental health conditions. He is the general counsel of the National Union of Healthcare Workers, a progressive union which has declared itself a sanctuary union and has led the fight in California for parity care for mental health issues.

Jonathan’s work on behalf of the Guild has been unwavering. He worked for the Guild’s labor law center which published the preeminent manual for union activists, Union Members Guide to Labor Law. He currently serves on the Guild Bay Area Executive Board. He is also an instructor in various moot courts and trial advocacy programs, serves on the Board of the Freight, a nonprofit community arts organization and has served on the boards of several school boards.
 

Love and Justice in the Streets is a community partner of the Guild, an all volunteer-run organization committed to increasing the capacity of unhoused Oakland residents by providing direct material assistance to individuals and curbside communities. Love & Justice is a 501c3 project fiscally sponsored by the Western Regional Advocacy Project.