here is marshall hamons from hastings university, camille bridge from u.c. berkeley, cocozoo from u.c. berkeley, and enrique zau, and they're going to make presentations for you about the work that they did during the summer. i will also add one more thing. i have the annual reports are here and finally printed and ready, they weren't on the agenda because i didn't give notice so i'll put them on the agenda for our next meeting, but i have copies, as i promised for today that i'll pass out. i also wanted to add one thing that was new that we were going to start doing or have available now are the fliers that we had -- the old fliers which we've had since 1972 have finally been redone -- 1982, actually. they've finally been redone and revamped, so the information is much more clear about how to make a complaint, what the office does, how to get in contact with us, and i will start bringing these at every meeting so that the public can take them and have that information. they will be setup there. i will say one of the things that we've done is make them compl

and the university of california hastings. [applause] i want to personally also acknowledge the amazing leadership of my colleague anne dryer who commands the financial justice project. [applause] i think everyone, as you see here, knows anne and can appreciate how instrumental her leadership has been to securing this win today. thank you for your compassion, for your tenacity and your inability to take "no" for an answer. [laughter] now i'd like to turn it over to jeff hadachi who has been another key leader in this effort. jeff? [applause] >> thank you. on the day before thanksgiving, i was working at the front desk. my staff leaves early and so i was working the front desk. [laughter] a young man named joseph came in. and he was holding a paycheck stub in his hand. and i asked him what help he needed and he said look at my paycheck. he says every paycheck, $200 is taken out to pay these fines and fees. he was only making $800 every two weeks. he told me i have two children. i'm a single father. i have the sole responsibilit

joel paul is a profession -- professor at the university of california hastings law school. he is the author of four books including unlikely allies which was also basis of the few knifingal paul wrote -- musical paul wrote. he has also taught on the faculties of yale university, university of connecticut and american university. i would now like to welcome joel paul to the lecture. sorry. [applause] >> thank you very much. and thank you all for being here. it's a great pleasure having so many old friends and family members here as well as new friends. i'm very enthusiastic and excited to be here and appreciate the invitation of fraunc everything s tavern which is such a wonderful monument to the revolution. when i first proposed writing a book about chief justice john marshall to my editor at penguin, he was a little bit reluctant. my previous book, "unlikely allies," is the true story of how a merchant, a playwright and a cross-dressing french spy saved the american revolution. and i eventually convinced him that we should go along with this book, and he said, well, you've