Cookie Ridolfi is one of 45 attorneys named by California Lawyer Magazine in their 15th annual California Lawyer Attorneys of the Year Awards. Award winners’ achievements had a significant impact in 2010, or their work is expected to have such an effect in the coming years. Professor Ridolfi was awarded for her investigation of more than 700 cases of prosecutorial misconduct in California and subsequent publication of her findings in a landmark report last fall for the Northern California Innocence Project. After revelations that only six prosecutors were ever disciplined, the State Bar of California has pledged to reexamine all allegations made in the report and increase efforts to educate prosecutors about its discipline process.
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