Law Practice
Nov. 15, 2019
Saving the Japanese YWCA building
In 1996, the San Francisco Chapter of the YWCA decided to sell the building located at 1830 Sutter Street, in San Francisco’s Japantown.





Benjamin K. Riley
Principal
Bartko LLP
Email: briley@bartkolaw.com
Ben specializes in IP and trust litigation. He's also a lover of all American history (especially TR)!

In December 1999, I was sitting in my office at Cooley when our associate (now 1st District Court of Appeal Justice) Tracie Brown came by and asked if the firm and I would be interested in substituting in as counsel in a high-profile, pro bono, trust case. Although for many years, most of my practice had been in intellectual property litigation, I also had an active caseload representing major charities in trust litigation. When Tracie told me the case involved the Al...
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