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1 Berkeley Law Foundation’s 15th Annual Auction Extravaganza Saturday, November 6, 2010 David Brower Center, 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA 7:30 p.m. Silent Auction 9:00 p.m. Live Auction Auction Check‐Out Procedures The Check‐Out Station is located downstairs to the right of the exit/entrance of the David Brower Center. Lists of winning bids will be located at the Check‐Out Station. Cash and check (made out to "Berkeley Law Foundation") are preferred. You may also pay with Visa or Mastercard. ***PLEASE PICK UP YOUR WINNING ITEM(S) BEFORE YOU LEAVE***

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 Berkeley Law Foundation’s 15th Annual 

Auction Extravaganza  

Saturday, November 6, 2010 David Brower Center, 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA 

 7:30 p.m. Silent Auction 9:00 p.m. Live Auction 

 Auction Check‐Out Procedures 

• The Check‐Out Station is located downstairs to the right of the exit/entrance of the David Brower Center. 

• Lists of winning bids will be located at the Check‐Out Station. • Cash and check (made out to "Berkeley Law Foundation") are preferred. • You may also pay with Visa or Mastercard.  ***PLEASE PICK UP YOUR WINNING ITEM(S) BEFORE YOU LEAVE***

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LIVE AUCTION ITEMS She Ran the White House, He Runs Boalt, but Can They Run a Kitchen? Dean Edley & Maria Echaveste Host Dinner for 10 And now, for one of the year's most coveted prizes -- An intimate dinner at with The Man himself, Dean Edley, and wife Maria Echaveste, former Senior Adviser to the Hillary Clinton campaign. They will open their home to ten lucky students for what is sure to be a most memorable evening. Value: Priceless Starting Bid: $150 Item Number 1 Libations with the LRWs! Last year’s most hotly contested prize! Never been to wine country? Freaked at the idea of ordering wine in a restaurant? Can't tell a zin from a white zin? Let the legal writing instructors introduce you to something even more fun than CREAC: the world of wine. Leave your Bluebooks at home and taste a delicious variety of varietals. This is our 11th year of hosting a fun night of wine tasting (and hors d'oeuvres) at one of our homes for a group of 10 students. Value: Priceless Starting Bid: $150 Item Number 2 Evidence of Awesomeness: An Evening with Swift and Cole! Let two real VIP’s show you an evening on the town. Four students will dine with Professors Eleanor Swift and Robert Cole at a trendy East Bay restaurant. Value: Priceless Starting Bid: $100 Item Number 3

Who Dun’ It? If you thought law school was murder, you ain’t seen nothing yet. Professors Gillian Lester and Eric Talley will host eight students at their house for an evening of dinner, fine wine, and a murder mystery. Hone your sleuthing, bird-dogging, and gum-shoeing skills alongside Professors Lester and Talley. Bring only your appetite, imagination, and enthusiasm. We’ll provide the rest. Value: Priceless Starting Bid: $150 Item Number 4 BarBri Gift Certificate (#1) One $500 Gift Certificate for a California Review Course Value: $500 Starting Bid: $100 Item Number 5 Don’t Quit Your Day Job! Do you have what it takes to rock the mic? Think before you answer. If you do, join karaoke impresarios, Prof. Melissa Murray and Prof. Bertrall Ross, and their spouses, for a night of East Bay mic-rocking magic. We'll cover karaoke, food, and some beverages for 4 students. You bring your A-game and see if you can hang with the big guns. Value: Priceless Starting Bid: $50 Item Number 6

Kaplan PMBR: $500 Gift Certificate for Complete Bar Review Course Comprised of a 6-day Foundation course, a 30-day General Bar Review Course, and a 3-day MBE Final Review Course, the Complete Bar Review Course is guaranteed to prepare you to conquer the Bar. Includes substantive legal outlines for every subject tested on your Bar Exam, 2 MBE practice tests, and a final state practice exam. Covers the most up-to-date MBE trends, and full-day MBE exam administered under test-like conditions, followed by a question-based, substantive review. Value: $500 Starting Bid: $100 Item Number 7

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Tahoe Snow Chateau! Professors Menell and Sylvia invite TEN students to spend a weekend in their Northstar Townhouse. They recommend choosing the MLK long weekend to get the most time on the slopes – students can choose the weekend, and can arrive as early as Thursday. There is a shuttle bus service to the Northstar ski resort and the NPOA health club, hot tub, and pool. As an added bonus, take home a Cal snow-globe compliments of the Cal student store. Value: $1500 Starting Bid: $500 Item Number 8

Brunch, Lunch or Dinner Bay Cruise for two! Sip sparkling wine and enjoy a delicious meal and live entertainment as you take in the spectacular scenery that makes San Francisco famous! The winner will receive a pass for 2 on a Hornblower Cruises’ Champagne Brunch, Lunch, or Dinner Dance cruise (month of December and special event cruises excepted). Champagne Brunch Cruise includes:

• 2-hour yacht cruise • Full brunch buffet • Free-flowing sparkling wine • Scenic San Francisco Bay views • Live entertainer

Dinner/Dancing Cruise includes: • 2.5-hour yacht cruise, Sun - Thu • 3-hour yacht cruise, Fri & Sat • Four-course dinner with choice of entrée and dessert • Wine and cocktails available for purchase on board • Live music and dancing

Value: $238 Starting Bid: $50 Item Number 9 Spur on the Warriors! Be front-row and center as the Golden State Warriors take on the San Antonio Spurs on January 24, 2011. Winner will receive 2 Courtside Club tickets, including in-seat VIP food and beverage service and Valet Parking Pass, compliments of Rosen, Bien & Galvan LLP. Value: $360 Starting Bid: $100 Item Number 10

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SILENT AUCTION ITEMS

BarBri Gift Certificate (#2) One $500 Gift Certificate for a California Review Course Value: $500 Starting Bid: $100 Item Number 11 BarBri Gift Certificate (#3) One $500 Gift Certificate for a California Review Course Value: $500 Starting Bid: $100 Item Number 12 BarBri Gift Certificate (#4) One $500 Gift Certificate for a California Review Course Value: $500 Starting Bid: $100 Item Number 13 Kaplan PMBR: MBE Six-Day Foundation Course This 6-day course helps you develop your Bar Exam "attack plan," and covers the most up-to-date MBE trends. Each day covers one of the six MBE subjects: Constitutional Law, Contracts, Criminal Law and Procedure, Evidence, Real Property, and Torts. Each day:

• You'll take an in-class 50-question mini-exam focusing on the most heavily tested areas of that day's subject.

• Our faculty will walk you through each of the 50 questions, review the law on which the answer to each question is based, and provide essential strategies and techniques to maximize your test performance.

• You'll identify your personal areas of strength and weakness so that you'll be ready to hit the ground running when you get to your General Bar Review Course.

Value: $799 Starting Bid: $125 Item Number 14 BarMax CA or NY Harvard lawyers teamed with top iPod and iPad developers to produce BarMax, the only comprehensive bar exam prep course available for purchase on the App store and a new, low-cost alternative to other prep courses. BarMax includes:

• Outlines and Audio Lectures for all subjects • 2-month Calendar and Task List • Real MBE Questions • Real Practice Essays with Sample Answers • Over 800 Flashcards • Lifetime Access & Support

The winner will receive a copy of BarMax CA or BarMax NY, your choice. Value: $999.99 Starting Bid: $50 Item Number 15 Can Your Bluff Stand Up To Strict Scrutiny? Intermediate? THREE lucky students will win a poker night with Con Law Professors John Yoo and Jesse Choper. Think you have the poker chops to compete with the Earl Warren Professor of Public Law who actually CLERKED for Earl Warren? Bring it on. Please note that these spots are for students only – no re-gifting! Value: Priceless Starting Bid: $30 Item Number 16

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Bagels, Brisket, and Banter with Bill! Instead of treating you to a constructive criticism of your brief and oral argument, let Professor Bill Fernholz treat you to dinner at delicious Saul's delicatessen in North Berkeley. Up to three people are welcome -- Bonus points if you bring a guest that is not a law student! Value: Priceless Starting Bid: $30 Item Number 17 A Big Night Out With Bob Berring (plus bobblehead doll)! Professor Bob Berring and his lovely wife Leslie will pull out all the stops for you and a companion at their favorite fancy Berkeley restaurant. Champagne all around -- hilarious and poignant perspective thrown in for free. Red Hots tolerated, Skywalkers approved, Bobs encouraged! As an added bonus, you will receive a hard-to-find Justice Souter bobble head doll from Green Bag. Value: Priceless Starting Bid: $50 Item Number 18 Hoofnagle Hosts! Steaks and Cabernet for 8 at the home of Professor Chris Hoofnagle, director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology's information privacy programs and senior fellow to the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic. Value: Priceless Starting Bid: $80 Item Number 19 DJ McG. Enough Said. Professor Stephen McG. Bundy will DJ your event! All kinds of dance music – from swing to Motown to funk to 80s and 90s to hip hope – Benny Goodman to James Brown to Kanye West. You provide the venue and dancers; he’ll provide the music, the equipment, and the atmosphere. He can customize the playlist to your taste, work with requests, etc. Who knew how multi-talented our professors are?! Value: Priceless Starting Bid: $30 Item Number 20 Who's Down With O.P.P.? Enjoy lunch for 3 with the master of Civil Procedure, Professor David Oppenheimer. Professor Oppenheimer's restaurant of choice, Adagia, features delicious California-Mediterranean cuisine made with organic and sustainably grown ingredients from local farms. Value: Priceless Starting Bid: $30 Item Number 21 Be Our Guest, Be Our Guest, Be Our Guest! Professor Saira Mohamed and her husband open their home to 4 students. Professor Mohamed is one of Boalt’s most impressive international and human rights specialists. She has worked extensively on human rights in Sudan, clerked for the 9th Circuit, and drafted UN resolutions. Find out if her hostess skills are as impressive! Value: Priceless Starting Bid: $40 Item Number 22 Wildlife with Weissman! Steve Weissman – Boalt’s clean energy and environmental guru – and his wife Laura will offer kayaking on Elkhorn Slough – a great spot for birds and coastal mammals near Monterey. They will provide kayak rentals, and lunch for up to 6 people. They will also have bird books and binoculars on hand. No boating experience is necessary -- the outfitter provides a brief lesson at the start. Date to be arranged. Value: Priceless Starting Bid: $240 Item Number 23

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Art and Burritos – What Better Way to Spend a Friday? Within an 8-block radius in the Mission District of San Francisco lie 80 public murals, an outdoor museum of art, culture, and history! Join Professors Ian Haney Lopez and Michelle Wilde Anderson for a walking tour of these murals led by the Precita Eyes Mural Arts Center. The tour can accommodate up to 10 students and will be scheduled on a Friday afternoon in the spring semester. Burritos at a Mission Taqueria included. Value: $225 Starting Bid: $40 Item Number 24 Together with Vetter! It doesn’t get better than Vetter! The most popular enigma in the law school hosts a sublime dinner for two students. Nothing more need be said. Value: Priceless Starting Bid: $20 Item Number 25 Ahoy, Mateys! Leave the books on shore and spend an afternoon paddling a canoe and/or kayak around the Alameda Lagoon. Luan Huynh, Staff Attorney at the East Bay Community Law Center, is offering 2 to 6 students access to her canoe and kayak. Use them on the Alameda Lagoon or to borrow the canoe and take it to a waterway of your choice. Value: Priceless Starting Bid: $20 Item Number 26 Fed Courts at the Hard Court! Professor Fred Smith will entertain two students at an upcoming Warriors game! Hang with an expert on civil rights, sovereignty and federal courts as the Warriors hang from the rim. Value: Priceless Starting: $20 Item Number 27 Homecooking with Hollinger! Feast on a sumptuous dinner for 4-6 students this Spring with the famous Professor Joan Hollinger, Boalt’s leading child advocate and gourmet chef! If you bid high enough, you might even get Professor Hollinger’s famous apple walnut cake for dessert, and you don’t have to share it with the kids! Value: Priceless Starting Bid: $40 Item Number 28 Lo Mein, Liquor, and Lavitt! Professor Joseph Lavitt will take up to six people for dinner and drinks and Shen Hua. Ask him about his work on post-Katrina treatment of insurance holders, his work for Senator Chris Dodd, his ideas about remedying housing discrimination… or who he had for torts when he was a student at Boalt! Value: Priceless Starting Bid: $40 Item Number 29 Lunch with Leti Volpp! Three students will enjoy a delicious lunch at Adagia with the fabulous Professor Leti Volpp, expert on citizenship, migration, culture and identity and former clerk for Judge Thelton Henderson. Value: Priceless Starting Bid: $30 Item Number 30 Justly Enriched! You are cordially invited to join Professor Mark Gergen, expert in torts, unjust enrichment and tax law and American Editor for the Restitution Law Review, and Susan Whitman, Assistant Dean of Academic Planning and Curriculum Coordination, for a delicious home cooked dinner for four students at their house in North Berkeley. Value: Priceless Starting Bid: $40 Item Number 31

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Food and Fun with Frampton! Enjoy dinner for 6 - 8 at the country home of Social Justice legends Mary Louise Frampton and her husband Scott Williams in Winters, CA. Take a nice walk around the ranch, watch the sunset and listen to the owls hoot. Value: Priceless Starting Bid: $60 Item Number 32 Soccer? Football? Football? Soccer? Ever had the experience of cheering at a soccer game accompanied by a British librarian? Here is your chance. Master researcher Michael Levy invites two students to watch the San Jose Earthquakes soccer team in the Spring (when the MLS soccer season starts up again.) No need to find your own path to this game - Michael Levy will drive the two winners to Santa Clara for the game. Value: Priceless Starting Bid: $20 Item Number 33 The Prof Who Parties! Plus, Your Own Personal Cocktail! The winning bidder(s) will receive a custom cocktail, specially designed by amateur mixologist Professor Molly Van Houweling to commemorate their Berkeley Law experience. Professor VH will provide the recipe, and the ingredients to recreate it, at a cocktail party in her home in Berkeley. Bid as group – up to 35 students can go in on this opportunity to party with Professor Van VH! Value: Priceless Starting Bid: $50 Item Number 34 You Be the Judge! Help Professors Murray and Van Houweling settle a long-standing debate: who makes the best pizza in the East Bay? They will host up to 10 students for a pizza-tasting party to sample contenders from Zachary’s, the Cheese Board, Gioia Pizzeria, Lanesplitter, and other local favorites (suggestions welcome). Value: Priceless Starting Bid: $80 Item Number 35

A Work of Art! How many folks can boast that they own an original watercolor from a feminist legend? Professor Nancy Lemon not only wrote the book on Domestic Violence Law (literally), she is an accomplished artist as well! Value: Priceless Starting Bid: $20 Item Number 36 Green Eggs and Qui Tam Claire Sylvia, adjunct lecturer, invites up to 8 students to her Berkeley home for brunch or dinner – Spring 2011 semester. This dinner is designed for students interested in learning about the False Claims Act/Qui Tam litigation. Value: Priceless Starting Bid: $50 Item Number 37

Motown Melodies! Groove to the sweet sounds of Motown with this awesome boxed set, provided by everyone's favorite music-aficionado/Torts enthusiast, Professor Paul Schwartz. Anyone who has ever taken Torts with Schwartz knows that he is the expert on all things classic rock and Motown, so this set is sure to be amazing. Value: Priceless Starting Bid: $10 Item Number 38

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A Walk to Remember! Legendary Professor Richard Buxbaum will host 4 to 6 students on a Saturday or Sunday nature walk in Point Reyes, meal included. Includes advice on how you too can help shape history. Buxbaum was one of the five defense counsel in the criminal proceedings against the 773 members of the Free Speech Movement from 1964 to 1967; represented various campus organizations and individuals in cases arising out of Vietnam War protests; and was defense counsel in a large number of criminal proceedings that accompanied the Third World Strike of 1969-70, which was a factor in the development of affirmative action programs for student admissions on the campus. Value: Priceless Starting Bid: $50 Item Number 39 Mission YUM-Possible! Hungry? Want to ogle hipsters? Study in SF? On a Saturday or Sunday in the New Year, Professors Michelle Wilde Anderson and Jason Schultz will treat 5 students to a “Mission District Foodie and Café Tour.” We’ll show you our very favorite spots for coffee, dining, working, and hanging out in the big city, and we’ll give you a top-secret list of several more highlights. When you’re good and tired, we’ll treat you to gourmet sandwiches, a picnic in Dolores Park, and the Best Ice Cream in America! Value: Priceless Starting Bid: $50 Item Number 40

Haiku for You! Berkeley Law Lecturer and Amateur Poet Steve Rosenbaum will write a couple of personalized verses of Haiku in your honor, to be read at the Annual National Poetry Month Open Mic at the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Garden, Arts Magnet Elementary School (Milvia and Lincoln Streets) on Saturday, April 30, 2011 (btwn 2 and 4 pm). Value: Priceless Starting Bid: $10 Item Number 41 Aesthetic Nerd Tour of UC Berkeley The chance you’ve all been waiting for: an Aesthetic Nerd Tour of UC Berkeley. Visit our most beautiful libraries (good to know about, whether you wan to study, pick up grad students, or just feel proud of your statement campus) with Professors Michelle Wilde Anderson and KT Albiston. Drink of your choice at the Free Speech Café included. Tour can host up to 5 students and will be arranged on a weekday afternoon early in the spring semester. Value: Priceless Starting Bid: $25 Item Number 42 Buy Me Some Peanuts and Cracker Jacks. Three Giants fans will join Ty Alper, Associate Director of the Death Penalty Clinic, to cheer the WORLD SERIES CHAMPS as they start their 2011 season. Value: Priceless Starting Bid: $45 Item Number 43 Metal of Honor Leave Boalt with more than a piece of paper that says “Juris Doctor” and a wrist injury! Professor Lauren Edelman will create you a custom-made, original piece of jewelry! She says it will be “made of precious metal, clay, probably bronze and copper,” and will be made in consultation with winning bidder. “Earrings or pendant most likely unless I learn to make something else soon!” Value: $75 Starting Bid: $20 Item Number 44

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Doubles Dual! In the spirit of the Indian-Pakistani duo Rohan Bopanna and Aisam-ul-haq-Qureshi, who united the subcontinent in their run to the doubles finals of the U.S. Open (Tennis!) this fall, Professors Prasad Krishnamurthy and Talha Syed will bridge two great national divides to form an Indian-American/Pakistani-Canadian doubles team. We agree to play a match against the winning bidder and a partner of their choice. The match will be followed by the customary food and libation. Dates/Times flexible. Value: Priceless Starting Bid: $20 Item Number 45 Curry, Criminal Defense, and Your Career Four students are invited to join Professor Elisabeth Semel, Director of the Death Penalty Clinic, and her husband, James Thomson, one of the country's preeminent capital defense lawyers, for fabulous Indian food at Ajanta, where questions about careers in criminal defense, the SF Giants, and other important issues of the day will be welcome. Value: Priceless Starting Bid: $40 Item Number 46 Go Sky-high With Sklansky! Professor Sklansky will lead a group of up to 6 students on a 20-mile day hike through the Oholone Regional Wilderness to the top of Rose Peak, the Official High Point of Alameda County. Value: Priceless Starting Bid: $60 Item Number 47 You Have the Right to Eat Waffles. Professor Chuck Weisselberg, founder of Boalt’s clinical program and professor of all things related to criminal law, invites six bidders to his house for a relaxing Sunday brunch followed by a hike on Mt. Tamalpais. Value: Priceless Starting Bid: $60 Item Number 48 Your Big Fat Greek Cooking Lesson! If the legal job market doesn’t pick up soon, you could always become a chef at a Greek restaurant! Professors Katerina Linos and Stavros Gadinis are offering dinner for up to 6 students, along with Greek cooking lessons, in their Oakland home. Value: Priceless Starting Bid: $60 Item Number 49 Dish Over Dishes! Celebrity gossip lunch at Adagia for up to six students with Professors Melissa Murray and Anne Joseph O’Connell. Assigned reading packet of relevant periodicals will be provided to each attendee before the lunch. Value: Priceless Starting Bid: $60 Item Number 50 Sugarman and Spice at Lunch Would Be Nice Professor Sugarman, Boalt’s resident expert on local eateries, will take a group of five students for a weekday lunch anywhere they choose in the East Bay. The winner would be wise to consult his online guide to East Bay restaurants! Lunch will be Spring semester. Value: Priceless Starting Bid: $50 Item Number 51 Birdwatching With Biber! Half-day morning birdwatching trip for 5 with Prof. Eric Biber to a local park, wetland or other natural area. Location, date and time to be arranged with the winning purchaser(s). Value: Priceless Starting Bid: $50 Item Number 52

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(Trade)Mark Your Calendar For Dinner! Professors Menell and Sylvia want to make music with you, make food for you, and make IP jokes despite you! A dinner or brunch for up to 16 students at our Berkeley home – Spring 2011 semester – for food, scintillating intellectual property discussion, and possible special guest(s) and surprise performance(s). Musicians are encouraged to bid – we could possibly start a band at the event. Value: Priceless* Starting Bid: $160 Item Number 53 * This offer is not sponsored by, affiliated with, or in any way connected to MasterCard Corporation. That’s a trademark joke for students who have not yet taken Intro to IP (and indicative of the scintillating conversation that awaits the highest bidders). Carribean Feast! Join EBCLC's wonderful Executive Director and Social Justice Juggernaut Tirien Steinbach for Caribbean cuisine for FOUR! In her own words: Please join me for a home-cooked dinner at my house in Berkeley. Jerk chicken (or tofu, I suppose), rice and peas, plantains, coco bread, patties, and some Red Stripes! YUMMM! I can’t wait! Value: Priceless Starting Bid: $40 Item Number 54 It’s the Climb! Do you, like Miley Cyrus, feel like “there’s always gonna be another mountain”? Learn how to conquer it with 2 introduction to Rock-climbing classes at Berkeley Ironworks. Featuring a 45-foot wall and 14,000 sq. ft. of Climbing Terrain, Berkeley Ironworks is sure to prepare you for “uphill battles” to come. Value: $58 Starting Bid: $20 Item Number 55 Kayak Rental Paddle away your worries with two 2-hour kayak rental gift certificates from California Canoe and Kayak. Choose from either their Jack London Square or Rancho Cordova locations! Value: $60 Starting Bid: $20 Item Number 56 The Dailey Method Three-Class Gift Certificate (#1) Come experience the Bay Area's original barre class! The Dailey Method is a unique combination of ballet barre work, core conditioning, stretching, and orthopedic exercises. Challenge yourself with a 3-class gift certificate! Value: $45 Starting Bid: $15 Item Number 57 The Dailey Method Three-Class Gift Certificate (#2) Come experience the Bay Area's original barre class! The Dailey Method is a unique combination of ballet barre work, core conditioning, stretching, and orthopedic exercises. Challenge yourself with a 3-class gift certificate! Value: $45 Starting Bid: $15 Item Number 58 Date Night! It's Date Night! Fortify yourselves for finals, or simply celebrate life! Package includes: Dinner for two at Adagia ($80 value) and babysitting provided by experienced (and free!) babysitter, U.C. Berkeley Law Student Katie Henderson. Value: $120 Starting Bid: $20 Item Number 59

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Ready for Your Close Up? (#1) This $250 credit (roughly equivalent to a 1-hour session) is good towards any portrait session, such as family portraits, lifestyle session, engagement photos, or headshots. Session must occur between November 2010-March 2011. Value: $250 Starting Bid: $25 Item Number 61 Ready for Your Close Up? (#2) This $250 credit (roughly equivalent to a 1-hour session) is good towards any portrait session, such as family portraits, lifestyle session, engagement photos, or headshots. Session must occur between November 2010-March 2011. Value: $250 Starting Bid: $25 Item Number 62 Dinner by Marie 3L and Chef Extraordinaire Marie Jonas will cook a dinner for 4 hosted at her home featuring 4 courses (with a protein of choice to the winner) and wine. Time to be established between parties, hosted in Alameda. Value: Priceless Starting Bid: $25 Item Number 63 Wine Tasting! Test your palate at a private wine tasting for up to 20 people at Vintage on College. Impress your colleagues with your vast knowledge of fine wine! Value: $300 Starting Bid: $60 Item Number 64

Jamaican Feast for 2 + Beer and Board Games! Spend an evening on San Pablo! Enjoy dinner for two, any day of the week at Island Flavah Cafe. Try their jerked chicken, curried goat, braised oxtail, escovietched fish, rasta pasta and fried plantains. Then move on down the street to Berkeley’s oldest pub, The Albatross, for some brew and board games! Value: $70 Starting Bid: $10 Item Number 65 Philosophy Beauty Products Is law school stressing you out? Pamper yourself in style with these decadent full-sized skin-care and fragrance products. Let Philosophy restore your pre-law school radiance! Value: $327 Starting Bid: $50 Item Number 66 Philosophy Beauty Products Get an early does of Holiday spirit with Philosophy’s holiday collection! Pamper yourself in style with these decadent full-sized skin-care and fragrance products in festive flavors. Value: $150 Starting Bid: $25 Item Number 67 Belay the Day Away You and a friend can learn how to master the ropes with 2 introduction to Belyaing class at Planet Granite, one of San Francisco’s largest climbing gyms. A beginner belay lesson includes instruction, gear rental (shoes and harness) and one-day pass. At the end of class, students will receive a temporary belay card so they can continue to climb and belay for the rest of the day! Value: $68 Starting Bid: $20 Item Number 68

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Bike the Bridge (#1) With a gift certificates for 2 All-Day Comfort Bike Rentals from Blazing Saddles, located at the base of the Golden Gate bridge. Pick up your bikes, cross the Golden Gate, cruise down to Sausalito and head back to San Francisco on a ferry boat (not included). It’s one of the best bike rides in the Bay Area! Value: $72 Starting Bid: $25 Item Number 69 Bike the Bridge (#2) With a gift certificates for 2 All-Day Comfort Bike Rentals from Blazing Saddles, located at the base of the Golden Gate bridge. Pick up your bikes, cross the Golden Gate, cruise down to Sausalito and head back to San Francisco on a ferry boat (not included). It’s one of the best bike rides in the Bay Area! Value: $72 Starting Bid: $25 Item Number 70 Under the Sea Is life really better down where it’s wetter? Find out when you get up close and personal with 20,000 of the San Francisco Bay’s most amazing marine animals with 2 tickets to the Aquarium of the Bay. Featuring exhibits on the ecosystem of the Bay, some of the areas land creatures, as well as an interactive exhibit where you can touch sharks and rays, the Aquarium will give you a whole new perspective on what it means to live in the Bay Area. Value: $34 Starting Bid: $15 Item Number 71 Go Bears Package! Cheer on your Cal Men’s Basketball team as they take on U.C. Davis on December 1st! The winner will receive a gift certificate for 4 reserved seats. And to commemorate your experience, you will also receive a Cal snow-globe complements of the Cal Student Store. Value: $108 Starting Bid: $25 Item Number 72 Westlaw Study Solutions Let Westlaw guide you through 1L finals with a package of hornbooks, a free online subscription to West Study Aids (300+ study guides), a $10 Starbucks car and to-go mug, and assortment of pens and goodies! Hornbooks include:

• Real Property In a Nusthell • Principles of Constitutional Law (West’s Concise Hornbooks) • Principles of Criminal Law (West’s Concise Hornbooks) • Gilbert’s Civil Procedures • Black Letter Outlines: Contracts

Value: $200+ Starting Bid: $25 Item Number 73 JUMP Start Winter Break With 2 tickets to the newly-opened House of Air Trampoline Park in San Francisco! The main trampoline structure consists of 42 conjoined trampolines and is larger than a regulation size basketball court. Tickets entitle you to 1 hour of bounce time. Brings sock and we’ll provide the helmets. Value: $28 Starting Bid: $10 Item Number 74 Flyin’ High Have you always wanted to skydive, minus the whole jumping out of a plane part? Here’s your chance! Winner will receive 2 gift certificates for an Experiential Flight at San Francisco’s iFly SF Bay Indoor Skydiving! Experience freefall in as safe and exciting environment at this state of the art facility. Get the sensation of human flight without the risk. Includes rental gear and an Introductory Course with instructor. Value: $28 Starting Bid: $10 Item Number 75

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Putt-Putt Please Think you can putt like Tiger? Show up 3 of your friends with 4 passes for a game of mini-golf at the Scandia Family Fun Center in Fairfield (about 30 minutes North and en route to wine country). Both of the center’s18 hole courses include a variety of challenges and obstacles, including a majestic Scandinavian castle. There are also other fun attractions to enjoy, including an arcade, batting cages and Laser-tag, if you want to make a day of it! Value: $32 Starting Bid: $10 Item Number 76 Something to Sing About (#1) Get in the Holiday spirit with 4 tickets to any San Francisco Choral Artists Concert in December. The renowned chamber will be performing “Silent Night, Noisy Night,” a program of seasonal music that spans centuries and continents, at several locations throughout the Bay Area. You can attend any of the following shows:

• Palo Alto: Saturday, December 4 at 8 pm • San Francisco: Sunday, December 5 at 4 pm • Oakland: Sunday, December 12 at 4 pm

Value: $120 Starting Bid: $30 Item Number 77 Something to Sing About (#2) Get in the Holiday spirit with 4 tickets to any San Francisco Choral Artists Concert in December. The renowned chamber will be performing “Silent Night, Noisy Night,” a program of seasonal music that spans centuries and continents, at several locations throughout the Bay Area. You can attend any of the following shows:

• Palo Alto: Saturday, December 4 at 8 pm • San Francisco: Sunday, December 5 at 4 pm • Oakland: Sunday, December 12 at 4 pm

Value: $120 Starting Bid: $30 Item Number 78 Straight A’s Of the Oakland variety. Take in an Oakland A’s regular season home game between March and May 2011 (subject to restrictions on premium games). Winner will receive 2 Plaza Outfield tickets. Value: $36 Starting Bid: $10 Item Number 79 Mediterranean Meal Enjoy brunch of lunch for 2 at La Mediterranee on College Avenue. Value: $25 Starting Bid: $10 Item Number 80 Vintage Vino Get away from it all and head north to Healdsburg for a free wine tasting for 2 at Vintage Wine Estates’ brand new tasting room. Choose from a selection of Vintage’s Napa and Sonoma Valley wines as you and a friend sit back and sip! Value: $25 Starting Bid: $10 Item Number 81

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Movie Night, Any Night Stream movies, TV shows, music, photos and more directly to your TV with a free Apple TV, compliments of Latham & Watkins. Apple TV gives you instant access to rentals of thousands of commercial-free HD movies and TV shows, as well as to a huge catalog of Netflix movies and shows, and streams directly from the internet to your TV. Snuggle up over Winter break and catch up on all the pop culture you missed this Fall! Value: $99 Starting Bid: $15 Item Number 82 Anything but Boar-ing 2L Anna Crivelli’s husband will lead a lucky hunter and a guest on a Wild Boar Hunting Trip in the Coastal Foothills. This is a full-day trip to a private hunting club about 100 miles south of Berkeley. Date TBD to coincide with hunting season. Lunch will be provided. The boar will be cleaned and the hunter can take the meat. Prior shooting skills are highly recommended. (Disclaimer: a wild boar is not guaranteed, but there has not been one time when a hunter did not get one in the past.) Value: $800 Starting Bid: $100 Item Number 83

Workout Your Worries (#1) Darren Modzelewski (Anthropology Ph.D '10/ MMA fighter) will show you, or you and up to 9 of your friends, the ropes of Muay Thai Kickboxing in a private 30 minute lesson. He promises to make it fun, functional and effective! As an additional bonus each participant will receive 1 free Kickboxing class at ModernCombatives MMA gym! Value: $50/person Starting Bid: $10 Item Number 84 Workout Your Worries (#2) Got a Boalt bully bothering you? Darren Modzelewski (Anthropology Ph.D '10/ MMA fighter) will show you, or you and up to 9 of your friends, how to take down any foe in a private 30 minute Judo lesson. He promises to make it fun, functional and effective! Value: $25/person Starting Bid: $10 Item Number 85 Workout Your Worries (#3) Darren Modzelewski (Anthropology Ph.D '10/ MMA fighter) will show you, or you and up to 9 of your friends, the technique of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu in a private 30 minute lesson. He promises to make it fun, functional and effective! As an additional bonus each participant will receive 1 free Jiu Jitsu class at ModernCombatives MMA gym! Value: $25/person Starting Bid: $10 Item Number 86 Workout Your Worries (#4) Think you have all the moves? Darren Modzelewski (Anthropology Ph.D '10/ MMA fighter) will show you, or you and up to 9 of your friends, the technique of Mixed Martial Arts in a private 30 minute lesson. He promises to make it fun, functional and effective! As an additional bonus each participant will receive 1 free MMA class at ModernCombatives MMA gym! Value: $25/person Starting Bid: $25 Item Number 87

Exercise Extravaganza First semester got you feeling flabby? Anthropology Ph.D. student Darren Modzelewski promises to whip you into shape with his fun and effective fitness regime. He will craft 2 personalized 8-week workout program -- for one man and one woman (so 2 winners!) -- with accompanying nutrition advice. Get back in Spring Break shape with Darren’s help! Value: $75/person Starting Bid: $25 Item Number 88

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A Lot Less Tax-ing Make your April hassle-free and let 2L and Certified CPA Lucas Love do your 2010 taxes for you! Value: $100/hour Starting Bid: $25 Item Number 89 Comic Cameo Is it your life-long dream to be a comic book superhero? Well, here’s the law school equivalent. 2L Andrew Fong will incorporate the Winner into Tort Bunnies, his web comic about lawless lagomorphs. Confer with the creator to determine your role in an upcoming issue and enjoy your 15 minutes of (Boalt-wide) fame. Value: Priceless Starting Bid: $10 Item Number 90 2L Trainer Whether you’re prepping for an event or just want to kick your workouts into a higher gear, 2L and Ironman Casey Schutte will help you reach your ultimate fitness goals with personal training or training advice for weightlifting, running (any distance, up to Ultra-marathon), cycling and/or triathlon (any distance, up to Ironman). Value: Priceless Starting Bid: $10 Item Number 91 Joke’s on You Local Comedian and 2L Dash Kwiatkowski will write a joke showcasing you. This joke will be told in front of an audience at The Purple Onion, The Brainwash Cafe, 7 Mile House, or another venue in the Bay Area to a stand up comedy audience. The Joke will be written by the comedian, but only told after it meets your approval. This will be fun! Value: Priceless Starting Bid: $10 Item Number 92 Sailboats, Seagrams Wine Coolers, and Sears Portrait Studio for 3 Spend an adventurous afternoon with internationally known yacht enthusiasts Adam “The Captain” Sterling, Wyatt “Tennille” Glynn, and James “Starboard” Stevens. The excitement begins with 1 or 2-star brunch (mimosas) and concludes with a group photo shoot with you and the crew at Sears Portrait Gallery (in formal nautical attire). You’ll get to take home a portrait package. Value: $55/Priceless Starting Bid: $15 Item Number 93 Win Back Some of Your Tuition Money! Poker for four students with Professors Edlin, McCrary, Quinn, and Talley at Professor Edlin’s house. In their words: “two of us confess to being extraordinarily bad.” Drink and snacks provided. Value: Priceless Starting Bid: $15 Item Number 94 Three Strikes? Yes, Please! Bowlapalooza! Come join Professors Bartlett and Plaut for a fun-filled evening of bowling, beer and pizza. This rare opportunity will allow six lucky students to experience a most memorable evening with two of the Bay Area’s most challenged bowlers. Participants will have the unique chance to observe Professor Plaut’s famed double-gutter-glide, the artful foot-fault of Professor Bartlett (who is rumored to have once bowled an 89!), and of course, their amazing powers of simple addition. Almost clean rental shoes included (socks highly recommended). Value: Priceless Starting Bid: $30 Item Number 95

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Shop Till You Drop! Has law school turned your life into day after day of starring in your own personal episode of What Not to Wear? Do you watch your classmates shop online during class and wish you could ask for wardrobe tips to help you stand out to that cute 3L you always see in Zeb? Did you despair when you looked through your closet trying to find something to wear to the auction tonight? Well, despair no more. Bid on a day of shopping with none other than the stylish Kathleen Vanden Heuvel. We all know she is the best dressed faculty member at Boalt. From law library elegant to construction chic, she has an outfit for every occasion. Here's the chance for SIX lucky students to perk up their wardrobes with assistance from the most fashionable librarian in town. Value: Priceless Starting Bid: $60 Item Number 96 Shake What Yo’ Mama Gave Ya’ Ladies, get your dance (and your exercise) on with 3 free classes at Hipline, the Women’s Fitness Dance Studio. Choose from Shimmy Pop, Power Pop and Shimmy Flow (Belly Dancing). These 1-hour total body dance workouts will help you burn calories, feel great, and will prep you for your next night at the club! Value: $20 Starting Bid: $5 Item Number 97 Drama Queen (or King) Do you have a flair for the dramatic? Take a seat and watch the pros at the Un-Scripted Theater Company, voted Best Theater Company 2008 in the SF Bay Guardian. Winner will receive a year-plus of improve theater: a pair of Subscriber 4-packs for the 2011 season, AND a bonus pair of tickets to the final show of the 2010 season: “A Tale of Two Genres,” an improvised musical in the style of the audience's choice, starting November 18th. (Tickets for “A Tale of Two Genres” are good for any performance in the run; Subscriber 4-packs can be used in any combination for all shows in the 2011 season. Value: $160 Starting Bid: $30 Item Number 98 Framed Black & White Collage Loans leaving you too poor for the finer things in life? Walls feeling a bit bare? Snag this beautiful piece by renowned artist, Ron Pokrasso (father of 1L Ryan Shaening-Pokrasso). Mr. Pokrasso has been an exhibiting artist and printmaker for more than 25 years and has had over 40 solo exhibitions His work is in public, private and corporate collections throughout the U.S. and abroad. Winner will receive “Closed Gate 53" by Ron Pokrasso, inkjet/intaglio (collage) 7" x 5", framed. Value: $300 Starting Bid: $25 Item Number 99 49ers Faithful Winner will receive a San Francisco 49ers 2010 Pro Bowl Laser Autographed Football. This Limited Edition Commemorative item is not available to the general public. Only 1000 of these footballs were created. Niners fans don’t miss your chance to pick up this unique piece of team memorabilia! Value: $50 Starting Bid: $10 Lot Number 100 Foursquare Earrings Labradorite and kyanite squares dangle off sterling silver earwires and feature iridescent blue, green and gray colors that pop out when looking at it from different angles. Handmade by Tam Ma. Value: $25 Starting Bid: $10 Lot Number 1001 Three Treasures Earrings Lovely labradorite, smokey quartz and freshwater pearl form a fetching trio. Sterling silver earwire. Handmade by Tam Ma. Value: $25 Starting Bid: $10 Lot Number 102

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Vino Earrings Delicate drops and rondelles of garnet, smokey quartz, labradorite and iolite cascade on a sterling silver chain. Handmade by Tam Ma. Value: $25 Starting Bid: $10 Lot Number 103 Chez Tamsters Dinner You've seen Chez Tamsters' culinary creations on Facebook. Now you have the chance to experience Chez Tamsters in the comfort of your own home. Dinner and wine for up to eight people; menu and date (early in the Spring semester) to be determined by the chef (Tam Ma, 3L) and dinner guests. Value: $400 Starting Bid: $100 Lot Number 104 Bacchanalian Basket (#1) Impress all of your wine-loving friends at your next party! Winner will take home a bottle of Tournesol (served at French Laundry, Mustard’s Grill and Waterbar and valued at $100/bottle), 3 bottles of Dehlinger Winery’s finest (hand-crafted by 1L Marlene Dehlinger’s family in the Russian River Valley) and 3 bottles of dessert wine donated by Professor/Vineyard-owner, Richard Mendelson. Value: $280 Starting Bid: $50 Lot Number 105 Bacchanalian Basket (#2) Impress all of your wine-loving friends at your next party! Winner will take home a bottle of Tournesol (served at French Laundry, Mustard’s Grill and Waterbar and valued at $100/bottle), 3 bottles of Dehlinger Winery’s finest (hand-crafted by 1L Marlene Dehlinger’s family in the Russian River Valley) and 3 bottles of dessert wine donated by Professor/Vineyard-owner, Richard Mendelson. Value: $280 Starting Bid: $50 Lot Number 106 I Saw Beyonce At Burger King There is no better way to describe this than to show you Professor Smith’s words themselves: “Is it too late for me to put up a second item called "I saw Beyonce at Burger King?" where we do karaoke solely with Beyonce songs and eat burgers first? Sent from my iPhone” (For up to 4 students) Value: Priceless Starting Bid: $40 Lot Number 107 Old Crocker Inn Enjoy a relaxing 2-night stay at the beautiful Old Crocker Inn! A Sonoma Wine Country Inn, this bed and breakfast retreat is set on a quiet, secluded hillside near Cloverdale, Geyserville and Healdsburg. Founded as a hunting retreat by railroad magnate Charles Crocker in the 1880s, the Crocker Ranch and its 1906 lodge and cabins were recently renovated to offer 10 luxury guest rooms and suites, each with private bath and entry. Enjoy full breakfasts, fresh baked goods, in-room massage, a swimming pool and plenty of space to relax, just minutes from dozens of world-class Sonoma wineries. (2-night stay must be during the week; subject to availability.) Value: $400+ Starting Bid: $75 Lot Number 108