On December 2, 2021, Thiadora Pina presented the Workshop “Expanding and Teaching Lawyer Cultural Competence” at NALP’s Professional Development Institute (PDI) Conference in Washington, D.C. The PDI delivers timely and substantive programming in lawyer training and professional development, with a…
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Michelle Oberman spoke with WBUR in Texas to discuss what happens when the right to an abortion is not guaranteed in every state, which might happen if the Supreme Court decides to uphold Mississippi’s law banning abortion after 15 weeks…
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Michael Vargas wrote an article for San Jose Spotlight about the right to free speech for public employees, and how “the reach of government regulation has been slowly creeping into more and more private conduct.” Read the article. “The general…
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Judge Eugene Hyman JD ’77 co-wrote an article on The Conversation website about how in Australia, first nations children make up 20% of all missing children, but get a fraction of the media coverage that missing white children receive. “In…
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Margaret Russell was interviewed by the First Amendment Coalition on “Understanding The Role Of The First Amendment In Civil Rights Movements”. “The U.S. Supreme Court, under the Warren Court, had really defined First Amendment freedoms in a much more uniform…
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Professors Laura Norris and Mary Fuller will be presenters at a United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) webinar on Dec. 7 at Noon ET (9am PT). They will highlight why diversity in innovation matters and offer some of the…
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Eric Goldman was quoted by Courthouse News Service about a case where two people filed a class action lawsuit against PeopleConnect, which collects and stores information and photos from high school yearbooks and posts them on classmates.com. Eric Goldman, a…
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Ellen Kreitzberg spoke with KTVU Fox-2 news about the ongoing Theranos trial, and the report by government regulators which found that Theranos’s Edison machine wasn’t able to perform basic lab tests and made errors in patients’ test results. “It shows…
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Michelle Oberman spoke to WBUR NPR in Texas about the restrictive Texas abortion law. Listen to the program.
Catherine Sandoval spoke with CBS news about how the a tree leaning against a power line caused the deadly 2020 Zogg fire. PG&E had slated the tree for removal, but never followed up to cut the tree down. PG&E’s lawyers…
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