Community & Neighborhood

Presentation: Bay Area Legal Aid - Housing

An Introduction to Tenants Rights and Evictions
Thursday, 8/6/2026
1:00 - 2:30
Learning Studio - 5th Fl
Main Library

100 Larkin Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
United States

415-557-4400

Attorneys Emily Shaul and Bree Baccaglini will present on tenants rights and evictions. Emphasizing the holistic services model employed by Bay Area Legal Aid to resolve clients' legal issues and concerns re landlord relations and evictions, Emily and Bree will talk about how attorneys assess the civil legal needs of clients, spot underlying and related issues to a client's situation and draw from the housing team's expertise. They will cover the eviction process, fair housing policies and laws and the resources provided by the Bay Area Legal Aid's housing team to defend clients' tenants rights and help them to avoid eviction.

About the presenters:  

Emily Shaul is a Staff Attorney at Bay Area Legal Aid, where she represents tenants facing eviction and housing instability in San Francisco through the Tenant Right to Counsel Program. She recently joined Bay Area Legal Aid from Legal Services of Northern California in Sacramento, where she did similar tenant-side work. Emily earned her law degree from UC Davis School of Law (King Hall) in 2024, where she represented incarcerated individuals in the King Hall Civil Rights Clinic and worked on voting rights litigation and advocacy through internships with the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, UCLA Voting Rights Project, and ACLU NorCal. She also holds a Bachelor of Social Work from Seattle University. In her free time, Emily enjoys spending time in nature and attempting to make pottery.

Bree Baccaglini is Staff Attorney at Bay Area Legal Aid, where she represents tenants facing eviction in her hometown of San Francisco. Before joining Bay Area Legal Aid in January 2025, Bree clerked in the Northern District of California and worked at the California Attorney General’s Office on consumer and tenant protection issues. Bree completed her undergraduate degree at Middlebury College in Vermont and earned her law degree at Stanford Law School. She enjoys bike rides, hikes and swims in the great outdoors, as well as treat-filled city wanders with friends.

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