Each year, Golden Gate Chapter members compete in the ATLA National Student Trial Advocacy Competition. Its other goals are to encourage and foster greater minority enrollment at the School of Law and to teach awareness of issues surrounding the Asian community. ELS also participates in the annual Earth Day clean-up and sponsors a symposium every year dealing with emerging issues in environmental law. The Federalist Society is a nationwide organization of conservative and libertarian law students, lawyers, and members of the judiciary. The society is founded on principles of individual liberty, limited government, and the rule of the law.
Members are committed to playing an active part in legal and social reform.
It provides legal support for workers and for persons who are racially, sexually, or politically oppressed. Phi Delta Phi is open to all students. Its purpose is to form a strong bond uniting law students and professors with members of the bench and bar in a fraternal fellowship designed to advance the ideals of justice and community service. PILF helps students find public interest legal employment and involvement opportunities. It also provides forums for discussion of public interest issues.