BALIF: An LGBT Bar Association

Welcome to BALIF

BALIF would like to thank all of our generous sponsors for making the 2008 Annual Dinner such a rousing success. Visit our Annual Dinner page to see who was involved.


Founded in 1980, BALIF is the nation's oldest and largest regional bar association of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, and transgendered persons in the field of law. BALIF members and supporters include San Francisco Bay Area judges, lawyers, law students and legal workers.

BALIF serves to take action on questions of law and justice that affect the LGBT community; strengthen professional and social ties among LGBT members of the legal profession; build coalitions with other legal organizations to combat all forms of discrimination; promote the appointment of LGBT attorneys to the judiciary, public agencies and commissions in the Bay Area; and provide a forum for the exchange of ideas and information of concern to members of the LGBT legal community.