Earl B Gilliam Bar Association

09/16/2025

08/11/2025

Our Neighborhood Law School is here!

Please come hear from and and learn about various areas of the law, including family, personal injury, juvenile, and employment.

The first night—Know Your Rights—is tomorrow night! See you there!

07/27/2025

Today EBGBA board members Geneviéve Jones-Wright and Jessica Petry and members Shonte Hobson and Soleil Wallen-Balmir joined fellow EBGBA member Supervisor Monica Montgomery Steppe
for an expungement clinic, along with Legal Aid Society Of San Diego, Inc. and Pillars of the Community San Diego.

03/08/2024

Another amazing speed mentoring event in the books!

Last night we engaged with our law students and had quite the time.

02/19/2024

We are proud to endorse current board member and past President Geneviéve Jones-Wright for Mayor! Vote for her on or before March 5!

I am especially proud to be endorsed by the Earl B Gilliam Bar Association! EBGBA knows that true change requires real action.

02/06/2024

Please be sure to vote for our endorsed candidates on or before the March 5!!

We need to get them across the finish line, and your vote will help do that!

Voters in the *city* of San Diego, please be sure to vote for:

🙌🏿 Our past President and current board member Geneviéve Jones-Wright for Mayor

and

💥 Heather Ferbert for City Attorney!

Voters in the *county* of San Diego please vote for:

☀️Jodi Cleesattle for Judge !

07/07/2023

Join us for an in-person fundraiser to support our brilliant member and endorsed candidate Monica Montgomery Steppe's historic run for the San Diego County Board of Supervisors and celebrate her birthday! Come celebrate and hear her vision for our County.

You can register for the event here: bit.ly/mmsbday
If you can't make the event, please consider making a donation. The special election is next month!

Please feel free to share this invitation on FB and other social media platforms and with your networks. We want to support our own at a high level. Let's get her across the finish line strong!

06/28/2023

The Honorable Charles Bell delivered inspiring remarks about access to the civil court system for low-income entrepreneurs at our Juneteenth Black Business Empowerment Legal Clinic, at the Valencia Park/Malcolm X Library on June 20, 2023. Thank you Judge Bell!

NAACP San Diego Branch
County of San Diego Black Chamber of Commerce
Urban League of San Diego County
Earl B Gilliam Bar Association
Earl B Gilliam Bar Foundation
Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Incorporated
National PanHellenic Council of San Diego
Wilson Sonsini

04/20/2023

Join us tonight for our first in-person general body meeting of the year! As always, we have an amazing MCLE training for you.

You can also attend via Zoom. Register here to attend virtually: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIvdeCorT0uG9xh78RjcSrd-fVYlAZaS4vN

See you tonight!

03/28/2023

Calling lawyers, judges, and law students!! It’s not too late to register for and attend our signature Speed Mentoring Event this Thursday!

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/speed-mentoring-event-tickets-570122621107

See you Thursday!

03/10/2023

Congratulations to EBGBA members Dante Pride (Pride Law Firm) and Maresa Talbert (The Talbert Law Office, APC) for being one of San Diego Business Journal’s Top 50 Black Leaders of Influence!

We salute you and your leadership today and every day!

02/27/2023

Attention, Lawyers! The California Lawyers Association is hosting a free event that may be of interest to you.

https://calawyers.org/event/webinar-stories-of-success-celebrating-our-black-legal-community/?fbclid=IwAR3YmPKK9wPVNIPnWcNUfZOJkdx5hqWi7XE9og0odFUNoT_xZ0lq0QbNHKA&mibextid=kdkkhi

On February 28, join California Lawyers Association for an incredible night celebrating a few of California's most celebrated Black Legal Community Leaders. Like the trailblazers that inspired them, you hear stories of resilience and unwavering determination to stop nothing short of success.