Three Santa Clara Law alumni are listed in Silicon Valley Business Journal’s 40 under 40 for 2020. They are Caitlin Robinett Jachimowicz JD ’10, senior attorney, Jachimowicz Law Group; Alexandra Connell JD ’12, CEO, Pluma; and Vamsey Palagummi JD ’09,…
Honorable Eugene Hyman JD ’77 has an opinion piece in The Recorder about legislative efforts to address systemic racism in the criminal justice system. Read the article (subscription required). “State legislators should embrace the late civil rights icon John Lewis’…
Congratulations to the 2019-2020 staff of The Advocate, which has won the American Bar Association’s Law School Newspaper National Award of Excellence for 2020! The Advocate is the student-run newspaper for Santa Clara Law. Read more.
This Fall, Santa Clara Law will welcome three new members to its faculty: Sue Guan, Nicholas Serafin, and Mary Procaccio Flowers JD ’12. “We are proud to welcome these three new faculty members. With their varied and unique fields of…
Mattia M. Corsiglia JD ’08 was quoted in a Mercury News article about the prosecution of a San Jose police officer for white-collar crime, including allegations of wage-theft from hourly employees. Mr. Corsiglia is the prosecutor on the case. “A…
Honorable Eugene Hyman JD ’77 had a letter published by the L.A. Daily Journal on July 17, 2020 in response to a column which discussed the “straightforward and surprising” history of prosecutorial peremptory challenge abuse resulting from the U.S. Supreme…
Andrew Parkhurst JD ’18 has an article in the Daily Journal on hazard pay in the time of Corona. Read the article (subscription required). “The current COVID-19 crisis has many employees asking— if not demanding— that they receive additional compensation…
Tamarah Prevost JD ’16 wrote an opinion piece for the San Francisco Chronicle about why existing laws fail to protect people of color. Read the article. “Ultimately, it is hypocritical to ignore the effects of systemic discrimination. Disparate impact-employment claims…
Margaret Russell did a KQED radio piece about John Lewis. Listen here. “Nine years ago, on March 7 — “Bloody Sunday” as it is called in civil rights history — my daughter and I marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge…
Deep Gulasekaram spoke to KTVU news about parents who filed a lawsuit against closure of in-person learning in California counties that are on the watch list, stating that class closure is unconstitutional. The same group has challenged the state’s right…
