On June 26, 2008, the ACS Bay Area Lawyer Chapter co-hosted an event with the San Francisco Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, featuring Steven T. Wax and Wazhma Mojaddidi. Mr. Wax is the Federal Public Defender for the District of Oregon, author of Kafka Comes to America: Fighting for Justice in the War on Terror, and the attorney for Brandon Mayfield and seven Guantanamo Bay detainees. Ms. Mojaddidi represents Hamid Hayat, a U.S. citizen accused of attending a terrorist training camp and providing assistance to a terrorist organization. The two attorneys told a crowd of over sixty people about how the U.S. government has targeted and denied due process rights to their clients -- individuals whom these attorneys believe to be innocent of the charges brought against them. The audience heard first-hand accounts of the "Kafka-esque" nature of criminal prosecutions in the "war on terror."

On June 18, the Bay Area Chapter held a panel discussion primarily aimed at law students interested in pursuing judicial clerkships.
Howard Rice hosted the panel and provided hors d'oeuvres, wine, beer, and other drinks. The panel consisted of Jahan Sagafi (a partner at Lieff Cabraser and former clerk in the Northern District of California), Rose Ring (an associate at Munger Tolles & Olson and a former clerk in the 9th Circuit), Erin Bernstein (an attorney with the City Attorney's Office and a former clerk in the Central District of California and California Supreme Court), Vince Chhabria (an attorney with the City Attorney's Office and a former clerk in the Northern District of California, 9th Circuit, and U.S. Supreme Court), and Rebecca Kahan (an associate at Howard Rice and former clerk in the 3d Circuit). The panelists shared thoughts on the differences between trial-level and appellate clerkships, state and federal clerkships, the application process, selecting courts and judges to apply to, and stories of their clerking days. Around 70 students from law schools around the country attended.

Senator Carl Levin speaking to members of the Bay Area Lawyer Chapter

On Tuesday, May 29, 2007, the Bay Area Lawyer Chapter of the American Constitution Society hosted a discussion featuring Senator Carl Levin. Senator Levin serves as both Chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee and Chair of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. In addition to speaking on U.S. detainee policy- including the treatment of detainees at the controversial detention facility at Guantanamo Bay- he also spent considerable time answering members' questions regarding the war in Iraq, concerns of the expansion of executive power, and restoration of habeas corpus.