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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)!

Saving the Japanese YWCA building
The house at 1830 Sutter Street in San Francisco (Courtesy of Ben Riley)

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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