FBANC Mentorship Program
For many years, FBANC has had a formal Mentorship Committee, led by members of the FBANC Board of Directors. The goal of the Committee is to support Fil-Am law students in the San Francisco Bay Area by facilitating, establishing, and supporting mentorship relationships between Fil-Am attorneys and Fil-Am law students. Primarily, the Mentorship Committee facilitates the Mentorship Program as well as Komunidad, a conference for law students in the FBANC community and beyond.
To reach the Mentorship Committee, please contact mentorship@fbanc.org.
2024-2025 Committee Chairs: Idrian Mollaneda and Riane Briones
Committee members:
Leoangelo Cristobal
Nelson Pineda Lam
Vannalee Cayabyab
Will Lowery
Danielle Ocampo
Alex Padua
FBANC 2024-2025 Mentorship Program
FBANC’s Mentorship Committee invites you to sign up for our mentorship program! Under the mentorship program, we will be pairing law students with attorneys eager to guide and inspire you.
We strive to offer our program participants a diverse blend of wisdom, fresh perspectives, guidance, by pairing law students with attorneys who may speak to the law students’ career goals, personal goals, and any other facets that they may wish to have guidance in.
How to sign up
If you are interested in participating in the FBANC 2024-2025 Mentorship Program, please select the applicable link below. Forms received after October 18 will be accepted on a rolling basis.
For Law Student Mentees, please find the link here.
For Attorney Mentors, please find the link here.
Events for 2024-2025
In addition to the Mentorship Program, the FBANC Mentorship Committee will be hosting an in-person event on November 16, 2024, and will host its student-led Komunidad Conference in late February or early March 2025.
The Mentorship Committee will also be hosting several informal talks with attorneys surrounding a variety of topics, to be announced throughout the year.
Additional Mentorship events may be found on our website.
If you would like to be involved in the Mentorship Committee to help facilitate the Mentorship Program, help plan Komunidad, or any of our other events, please feel free to contact us at mentorship@fbanc.org.
Any Other Questions?
For all other questions, please contact the Mentorship Committee Co-Directors Riane Briones (rianebriones@fbanc.org) and Idrian Mollaneda (idrianmollaneda@fbanc.org) directly.
Komunidad Conference
FBANC puts on an annual conference, Komunidad, to empower and inspire Filipina/x/o identifying law students.
The inaugural conference in February 2020 was spearheaded by FBANC President-Elect Raymond Rollan, who brought together 45 law students from across bay area law schools and over 45 lawyer volunteers and panelists - the biggest gathering of Filipina/x/o American law students in history. The day consisted of one on one resume review workshops and mock interviews, panels on how to stand out as a summer associate/law clerk and how to succeed post bar, an opening remark from Oracle’s first general counsel and FBANC’s principal founder Raymond L. Ocampo, Jr. and a keynote from the first Filipino assemblymember in California, Rob Bonta.
Since 2020, FBANC and Nor Cal Fil-Am law student organizations have held additional Komunidad events.
Volunteer and Partnership Opportunities
Community Outreach and Legal Clinics
FBANC aims to provide services to the Filipina/x/o American and historically disenfranchised communities in the SF Bay Area.
FBANC’s Legal Clinics Committee regularly organizes legal clinics and facilitates community outreach and interactions with other minority bar associations.
To volunteer for a legal clinic and/or to learn more, click here to learn more.
Programming
FBANC regularly partners with Fil-Am affinity organizations at local law schools in the SF Bay Area to put on various programming such as panels and mixers. If your Fil-Am affinity organization would like to put on a program or panel at your law school with FBANC, please contact us at mentorship@fbanc.org.
Annual Installation Gala
Every year, FBANC holds an installation gala in the summer. The installation event is our organization’s main fundraiser for the year, and an opportunity for our community to celebrate and recognize some of the leaders in the Fil-Am bar, including judges, attorneys, academics, and law students. FBANC works directly with law students at Fil-Am affinity organizations at local law schools in the SF Bay Area to put on the event. The student members assist FBANC with advertising the event, creating parts of the programming, and with key staffing responsibilities on the day of the event. It’s no exaggeration to say that FBANC could not put on the event each year without the support of the students.