This gallery includes photos from the gala dinner at San Francisco's St. Francis Hotel honoring the Bar Association of San Francisco Foundation "Champion of Justice" Award winners for 2006.

Resemblance of the 2006 recipients to any persons living or dead is purely coincidental. But seriously, folks, the efforts of these three giants of the legal profession resulted in a donation of more than $500,000 to help the poor obtain access to free legal services through the BASF Volunteer Legal Services Program. There may be no worse situation in life than not being able to afford legal services in a time of personal crisis.

The 4 x 6 inch size makes the standard print, and the 8 x 12 size will print twice as large, if desired, and can be cropped to a more standard 8 x 10 without losing too much.

Now I have uploaded a representative group of images from this suspicious, er. . . auspicious event.