Annual Public Interest and Installation Dinner

Our Annual Public Interest and Installation Dinner is our largest event of the year where we celebrate community service, welcome our new boards, and honor distinguished guests with the Judicial Appreciation, Trailblazer of the Year and Public Interest awards.

The 18th Annual Public Interest Dinner & Installation will take place on May 25, 2023, from 6:00 to 9:00 PM at the DoubleTree by Hilton, 120 S Los Angeles St, Los Angeles, CA 90012. We’ll be honoring Purvi Patel of Morrison Foerster, Faizah Malik of Public Counsel, and Los Angeles Superior Court Presiding Judge Samantha Jessner. Our keynote speaker will be Moez Kaba of Hueston Hennigan. Cocktail hour begins at 6:00 PM in the beautiful Kyoto Garden.

Early-bird pricing starts at $125 for general admission and $65 for government and nonprofit employees and law students. Early-bird pricing expires on May 13, 2023.

 

  SABA-SC PIF 18th Annual Banquet - May 25, 2023, 6:00 PM

Past award honorees include:

2014-2022

2022 – Honorable Neetu S. Badhan-Smith; Honorable Sergio C. Tapia II; Seema Ahmad; Lifetime Achievement Award: Anjan Choudhury

2018 – Hon. Upinder Kalra (LASC); Paul Grewal (Facebook, Inc.); Munmeeth Soni (Immigrant Defender’s Law Center)

2017 – Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye (Cal. Supreme Ct.); Kalpana Srinivasan (Susman Godfrey LLP); Bhupinder Malik (SALDEF)

2016 – Hon. Jacqueline Nguyen (9th Circ.), Hon. Halim Dhanidina (LASC), Nisha Vyas (Public Counsel)

2015 – Hon. Beverly Reid O’Connell (C.D.Cal.); Suma Mathai (LA Center for Law and Justice)

2014 – Hon. Holly Fujie (LASC); Prof. Jyoti Nanda (UCLA Law School); Firdaus Dordi (Federal Public Defender’s Office)

2009-2013

2013 – Hon. Virginia A. Phillips (C.D.Cal.); Shivbir Grewal (Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth); Laboni Hoq (Asian American Advancing Justice – LA)

2012 – Hon. Peter Espinoza (LASC); Ajay Patel (Sony Network Entertainment); Shashi Hanuman (Public Counsel)

2011 – Hon. Consuelo Marshall (C.D.Cal.); Navneet Chugh (The Chugh Firm); Rupa Goswami (USAO)

2010 – Erwin Chemerinsky (UCI Law School); Arnold Peter (Peter Rubin & Simon); Sonal Ambegaokar (National Immigration Law Center)

2009 – Tom O’Brien (USAO) and Muneer Ahmand (American University Law Professor); Alka Sagar (USAO); Ahilan Arulananthanam (ACLU – Southern California)

2004-2008

2008 – Kamala Harris (SF DA Office); Javade Chaudhri (Sempra Energy); Nitasha Sawhney (Garcia & Calderon)

2007 – Sonali Kolhatkar (KPFK Pacifica Radio); Arif Alikhan (LA Mayor’s Office); Amand Thind (Immigration Center for Women & Children)

2006 – Shakeel Syed (Islamic Shura Council); Hon. Sanjay T. Kumar (LASC); Najeeba Syeed-Miller (Asian Pacific American Dispute Resolution Center)

2005 – Vanita Gupta (NAACP Legal Defense Fund); Rita Gunasekaran (Haight, Brown & Bonesteel); Manujsha Kulkarni (National Health Law Program)

2004 – Vikram Amar (Hastings Law Professor); Shan Thever (Thever & Assoc.); Mona Patel-Sikora (Public Counsel)

* In 2011, the Keynote Speaker Award was replaced with the Judicial Appreciation Award