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1.Sense of Community 1

2.Breadth and Depth 8

3.Experienced and Accessible Faculty 16

4.Invested Alumni 24

5.Learning Outside the Classroom 32

6.Dynamic Location 40

7.Commitment to Diversity 48

8.More than One Path 56

9.Focus on Social Justice 64

10.Hit the Ground Running 72

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Standing up in supportEvery spring, members of the campus community gather for the Wit of Mandamus talent show to rock out to musical perfor-mances by students and staff. Wannabe comedians also have the chance to try out a stand-up routine before the crowd. Ticket sales support funding for students working summer public interest jobs.

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Pad Thai with a side of minglingMulticultural groups like Loyola’s Asian Pacific American Law Students Association served up a global buffet of food and answered questions during a special Diversity Week edition of the monthly student gathering known as Turf Club.

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“That Loyola provides an excellent classroom experience is only half the story. Loyola’s campus is the setting for countless student activities, ranging from enhancing our legal education to community service and even some to just take your mind off the law altogether. During my three years at Loyola, I could always expect the hours of 12–1 p.m. and 5– 6 p.m. to feature an event—usually multiple ones—that I wanted to attend. The best way to say it is that Loyola provides not only a top education but also the means to following any and all of one’s interests.”AUSTIN HAIGH ’10, former president, Loyola Law School Democrats

No one ever credited a boxed lunch for a more enriching law school experience, but throw an appeals court judge into the mix and you might be onto something.

When the California Court of Appeal sat in session in Loyola Law School’s flagship Robinson Courtroom, students flocked to chat with judges over lunch. And when the Student Bar Association’s (SBA) Speaker Series features such renowned guests as Michael Jackson attorney Tom Mesereau and prominent alumni like Gloria Allred, Mark Geragos and Joe Escalante, creator of Barely Legal Radio, you can bet there’s not an empty seat in the house.

Known for its steady stream of student activities, both academic and social, Loyola stands apart for the collegial community it fosters with the school’s 1,300 full- and part-time students.

On the academic front, students bent on mutual success participate

in regular study groups, and upper-division students volunteer as mentors. The St. Thomas More Law Honor Society—offering exam-tip sessions, tutoring and an outline-sharing website for first-year classes—is another example of students helping each other excel.

Then there are the 35 active student organizations representing everything from diverse ethnic backgrounds, such as the Asian Pacific American Law Students Association, Black Law Students Association and La Raza de Loyola student group, to special-ized legal interests including the Student Animal Legal Defense Fund and American Civil Liberties Union student chapter. More indi-vidual interests include the Loyola Golf Society and the Performing Arts Association.

Students also band together in their commitment to service. Loyola Neighborhood Day: A Littergation Practicum, a student event dedicated to picking up trash, is just one way students serve

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the downtown Los Angeles com-munity in which the school resides.

On the social front, student-organized “Bar Review” outings, at a variety of Los Angeles’ trendy restaurants, clubs and lounges, and SBA-hosted Turf Club gatherings held on the third Thursday of each month, featuring drinks and food from Greek to Thai, help students connect and unwind.

Even the structure of Loyola’s academic programs—a Day Division where first-year classes are divided into four sections and an Evening Division with its own first-year curriculum—has proved fertile ground for strong student connections, including study groups and mentorships with fac-ulty. Whether through regular SBA fundraising competitions or com-paring outlines, section members find ways to bond.

It’s never just a boxed lunch at Loyola. It’s student life, outside the box, at its fullest potential.


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MAiA BAGHASHViLiSecond Year A native of the nation of Georgia, Maia works as a theft investigator for a high-end depart-ment store during the day and attends law school at night. Somewhere in between, she finds time to volunteer at the Legal Aid Foundation Los Angeles. A former intern at Los Angeles Superior Court, she received her bach-elor’s degree cum laude from UCLA.

TREE OF KNOWLEDGE Frank Gehry, legendary architect and designer of Loyola Law School’s downtown campus, placed a great oak tree surrounded by steps in the middle of campus in a nod to Socrates, who conducted all his classes in Athens underneath an enormous olive tree.

CArMen AGuAdoSecond Year Carmen is a legal assistant for Consumer Watchdog, a consumer advo-cacy group in Santa Monica, Calif., where she assists with trials by conducting case research and preparing pleadings. A former law clerk at the Children’s Law Center in Los Angeles and a research assistant in the United Kingdom’s House of Commons, she was a member of the Pre-Law Society at Loyola Marymount University.

Judy FeLzThird YearJudy, a former extern for the California Department of Real Estate, is an extern for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She is also co-chair of the Loyola Law School chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, where she helps organize student membership drives.

drew FerrAndiniThird YearDrew, an avid photographer who regularly shoots campus events like the lunchtime speak-ing engagement of famed attorney Mark Geragos, is an extern for Judge Margaret Morrow, U.S. District Court, Central District of California. He is also a member of Loyola’s legendary Byrne Trial Advocacy Team.

JAMeS CHoiThird YearA native of South Korea, James has been a law clerk in Hong Kong and Seoul. As an intel-ligence analyst in Korea’s Defense Intelligence Command, he assisted in the development of South Korea’s military policies. James is the founder and president of EEN, an organiza-tion that provides financial support to underprivileged South Korean chil-dren for educational and other needs.


Chapel of the AdvocateDaily Mass is offered by the campus. The campus also houses an interfaith chaplain. Student Lounge

Students can watch the big game on the large-screen TV inside or participate in a table tennis game outside.

Coffee CartMany Loyola students begin their day by fueling up at the Kangs’ coffee stand.

Merrifield Hall Merrifield Hall, the largest classroom on campus, has hosted everything from Constitutional Law classes to a speak-ing event featuring alumna Gloria Allred.

That’s so L.A.Loyola’s shuttle runs continuously between campus and downtown Los Angeles, affording students an easy way to shop, grab a bite or hit the gym.

The GirardiAdvocacy Center Two mock court-rooms and a series of interview rooms are the training ground for Loyola’s numerous trial advocacy teams.

oak Tree QuadThe landmark offers a bit of shade where students relax and download each other on the day’s events. Student organizations routinely set up shop around the tree to pro-mote their programs.

donovan HallWorld-renowned architect Frank Gehry designed Loyola’s campus as an ode to ancient law. Decon-structed columns reminiscent of ancient Athens or Rome dot the campus.


Founders HallLoyola’s three tradi-tional law reviews and the call intake center for the Disability Rights Legal Center anchor one of Loyola’s oldest buildings.

william M. rains Library Students reserve study-group rooms of all sizes, or simply kick back and read the Los Angeles Times on a couch in the atrium.

Fritz B. BurnsAcademic Center Faculty offices with several outdoor meeting spots line the upper floors.

Bannan roomSeveral smaller- capacity rooms serve as the setting for seminar classes.

HollywoodLoyola’s Entertainment Law Practicum helps students find legal work at major television and film studios, which are a short drive or even shorter train ride away.

eclectic eatingKorean barbecue. Filipino buffet. Mexican diner. Australian steakhouse. Nestled between downtown and Koreatown, Loyola’s location gives students a myriad of culinary choices.

Casassa BuildingStudents prepare their courtroom arguments and review client re-ports at the Center for Juvenile Law & Policy and Youth Education Justice Clinic.

Sonia'sThe company behind Google’s famously delicious food line runs the Loyola cafe, which features organic food and locally grown produce.

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number crunchingClinical Professor Jennifer Kowal, director of Loyola’s Tax LLM Program, teaches as part of the program’s Intensive Summer Tax Session, a unique 12-unit course taken after the first year that allows students to complete their JD and LLM degrees in three years.

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Case in pointProfessor Kimberly West-Faulcon discussed the Supreme Court case United States v. Lopez with her Constitutional Law class.

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Ask most people what they have always dreamed of doing, and you’ll hear everything from singing in a band and opening a restau-rant to base-jumping and being baseball commissioner. But ask around Loyola, and you’re more likely to hear about advocating for an incarcerated child or exonerat-ing a man serving a life sentence for a murder he didn’t commit.

That passion for the law runs the gamut and it runs deep. But Loyola’s broad range of classes provides enough in-depth exploration to satiate even the most die-hard legal mind.

It starts with a set of required foundational classes designed to expose students to different types of law while equipping them to pass the bar, at a rate of 85 percent in recent years. From there, students can choose from Loyola’s 16 tracks, which include Business Law, Civil Litigation, Criminal Law, Enter-tainment Law, Environmental Law, Health Care Law, Intellectual Property Law, International Law, and Labor and Employment Law.

Then they go deeper.In addition to specialization

within a legal track, students can explore areas of interest through Loyola’s elective courses. With in-triguing topics such as White-Collar Crime, Bioethics, and Green Energy Project Development and Finance, the course selection reads like it’s been ripped from the headlines.

A wide variety of symposia further augments the student experience. The Fidler Institute on Criminal Justice, for example, has featured such distinguished leaders as Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and U.S. Attorney Thomas O’Brien, while Sports Law Institute presen-tations have included Cincinnati Reds Manager Dusty Baker.

Then it gets really interesting.A diverse array of experiential

learning opportunities allows students to step out of the classroom and into real life. Students partici-pating in the Innocence Project externship interview felons and draft petitions to exonerate inno-cent people wrongly imprisoned.

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The Immigrants’ Rights Practicum sends students to public-interest law firms to work alongside experts fighting discrimination, exploitation and community exclu-sion. Then there’s the Center for Juvenile Law & Policy, where stu-dents represent incarcerated Los Angeles County youth in court.

This depth of study is supported by classes such as Legal Method, which teaches class outlining and test-taking skills before first-year students start school, and Legal Research & Writing, where stu-dents receive personalized feed-back from their professors.

From the breadth of classes to the ability to hone one’s craft in the field, Loyola has what the impassioned student needs to succeed and be prepared to hit the ground running.

Rock climbing is certainly exhilarating, but advocating for a better world, well, that’s a dream come true.

“I came in knowing I wanted to work as a union-side labor lawyer, but I wanted to keep my options open. Loyola offered the classes I needed for my area of specialization, but I also looked at the course list every year and was usually tempted by the options. I ended up taking a tax class, which I loved and is outside my practice area. It was a great opportunity to branch out into areas outside of my specialty that seemed fun. Loyola’s breadth of classes made this possible for me.”JOSH ADAMS ’08, associate, Rothner, Segall & Greenstone


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Practically speakingStudents in Loyola's Business Law Practicum complete merger-and-acquisition deals for simulated clients. Above, Director Dana Warren and Professor Therese Maynard (center left, center right) meet with students.

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First Year CurriculumCivil Procedure Constitutional Law I Contracts Criminal LawLegal Research and WritingProperty Torts

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First Year CurriculumContracts Legal Research and Writing Property Torts

Second Year CurriculumCivil Procedure Constitutional Law I Constitutional Law II Criminal Law

Third Year Required CoursesEthical LawyeringEvidence

Upper Division Required Courses A Breadth CourseUpper Division Writing Requirement Pro Bono Graduation Requirement

LIGHTS OUT, MUSIC ON Housing nearly 600,000 volumes and a Computer Resource Center with 85 workstations, the William M. Rains Library bids sleepy students goodnight by playing music over the loudspeakers upon closing.


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Professors teaching (and learning)Professor Ted Seto presents his paper “Toward a Just World: Law and Economics Reconsidered” during the Faculty Workshop Series. Students are invited to attend the lunchtime workshops and engage in discussion.

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in the classroom(From left) Associate Professor Doug NeJaime, who teaches Law & Sexuality; Associate Professor Kathleen Kim, who teaches Immigration Law and oversees the Immigrants’ Rights Practicum; Professor Dan Martin, library director, who teaches Legal Research and Ethical Lawyering; Professor Jan Costello, who teaches Mental Disability Law and Family Law; Associate Clinical Professor Samantha Buckingham, a former public defender who supervises students in the Center for Juvenile Law & Policy; and Professor Brietta Clark, who teaches Health Care Access and writes the Health Care Justice Blog.


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The professors at Loyola are on the move and shaking things up. If they are not teaching, holding office hours or conducting workshops, they’re busy getting published in the Harvard or Notre Dame law reviews and being cited by the Supreme Court. They have even been spotted crushing the competition at Loyola’s Wit of Mandamus campus talent show.

Makes you wonder if they ever sleep.

The faculty at Loyola is far from ordinary. Three professors have clerked for Supreme Court associ-ate justices, and many possess masters of law degrees, MBAs and doctorates. Their resumes alone tell a compelling story: from litiga-tor for the housing section of the Civil Rights division of the U.S. Department of Justice to senior vice president of production and worldwide acquisition legal affairs for Twentieth Century Fox. There are former federal prosecutors and former associates and partners

at prestigious law firms such as Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP.

A prolific bunch, they rank among the most frequently downloaded authors on the Social Science Research Network, the leading website for distributing academic scholarship, and their research has captured the atten-tion of those of the highest judicial order. Professor Rick Hasen’s Election Law Blog, for example, recently snagged its millionth visi-tor. And in Berghuis v. Thompkins, Justice Sotomayor (in dissent), cited professor Marcy Strauss’s article “The Sounds of Silence: Reconsidering the Invocation of the Right to Remain Silent under Miranda.”

But that’s just their credentials. Perhaps their most important work is empowering students with a firm understanding of the law. And not for nothing, they have been ranked in the top five for “Best Classroom Experience” by The Princeton Review three years in a row. Loyola faculty members

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take accessibility seriously, leaving office doors open for hours at a time, extending discussions over coffee and over the phone. They invite students to attend faculty workshops and exclusive events, like the Tribute to the Champions of Justice Dinner, which annually celebrates Los Angeles County’s top litigators at the Beverly Hills Hotel and attracts 500 of Southern California’s finest attorneys.

Constantly looking to make sure that things continue to move and shake Loyola attracts and retains top professors through a collection of endowed faculty chairs, including the John E. Anderson Chair in Tax Law, David W. Burcham Chair in Ethical Advocacy, Harriet T. Bradley Chair in Contract Law, Leonard Cohen Chair in Law & Economics, Johnnie L. Cochran, Jr. Chair in Civil Rights and William Matthew Byrne, Jr. Chair, to name a few.

“In my experience, all of my professors have always been readily accessible—both during office hours or via email. It’s really helpful to be able to talk out any points of confusion on topics that may not have been as clear in class.”MIRI STUCkER, second-year student; research assistant to Professor Laurie Levenson


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LAurie L. LeVenSonProfessor of Law, William M. Rains Fellow and David W. Burcham Chair in Ethical Advocacy“I love the law and love teaching students. I find we learn from each other. Unlike what many people think, there is not a big gap between the real world and law school. Law school simply gives students an atmosphere to search for the best and fairest answer,” says Levenson (pictured with her research assistant Miri Stucker, a second-year student).

EXPERT TESTIMONY Loyola Law School’s professor Alexandra Natapoff testified before the House Judiciary Committee’s Oversight Hearing on Law Enforcement Confidential Informant Practices, and Professor David Glazier testified before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform about the legality of unmanned drones.


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LoLA MCALPin-GrAnTFormer Assistant DeanMcAlpin-Grant, a 1966 Loyola alumna, was appointed assistant dean in 1970, making her the first African-American woman to serve as an administrator at the school. She was also the first African-American woman to serve in the office of the California Attorney General.

ProFeSSor MiCHAeL wATerSToneJ. Howard Ziemann Fellow, Disability Rights Law, Employment LawWaterstone is Loyola’s associate dean for research and academic centers and a preem-inent expert on disability rights law. A former associate at the prestigious firm of Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP, he is a co-author of a leading casebook on disability rights law. He has also served as an adviser on disability issues to several organizations, including the Harvard Law School Project on Disability and the Disability Rights Legal Center, located on Loyola’s campus.

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ProFeSSor riCK HASen William H. Hannon Distinguished Professor of Law, Election Law, Remedies Hasen is an internationally renowned expert in election law. He authors the Election Law Blog, which has clocked more than 1 million unique visitors. In addition to his scholarship, which has appeared in top law reviews, Hasen has filed amicus briefs before the Supreme Court and represented organizations on election law issues. He also testified before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on renewal of the Voting Rights Act.

ASSoCiATe ProFeSSor KATHLeen KiMImmigration Law, Immigrants’ Rights PracticumKim oversees Loyola’s Immigrants’ Rights Practicum, a course in which students spend a semester learning immigration law follow- ed by a semester gaining real-world experience in a related public-interest firm. She co-directs the Anti-Trafficking Litigation Assistance and Support Team (ATLAST) and is a gubernatorial appointee to the California Alliance to Com-bat Trafficking and Slavery coordinated by the California Attorney General’s office.

ProFeSSor GAry wiLLiAMSCivil Rights Litigation Seminar, Privacy and the First AmendmentWilliams, the Johnnie L. Cochran, Jr. Profes-sor of Civil Rights, was assistant legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union Founda-tion of Southern California. He went on to serve as president of the organization’s board of directors. He coordinates Loyola’s Young Lawyers Program, a moot court program for inner-city high school students in Los Ange-les. And he is a frequent source of commen-tary on freedom-of-speech issues, for both journalists and the public at large.

ProFeSSor CeSAre roMAnoW. Joseph Ford Fellow, International Human Rights Law, International Environmental LawRomano speaks five languages, has graduate degrees from three universities in three coun-tries and is one of the world’s foremost authori-ties on international tribunals. He is the assistant director of the Project on International Courts and Tribunals, an organization he helped create, and a core member of the faculty at Loyola’s summer program on international hu-man rights and environmental law in Costa Rica.


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PROFESSOR MARCY STRAUSSConstitutional Law, Criminal ProcedureStrauss is a prolific constitutional law scholar whose work was cited twice by the Supreme Court in one recent term—a rare feat. She has written and spoken extensively on the topic of torture. She also teaches the popu-lar Hate Speech Seminar and courses on sexual harassment law.

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THE HON. FREDERICK J. LOWER, JR.Former professor of Civil Procedure, TortsLower was a celebrated professor at Loyola, as well as the school’s 10th dean. Under his leadership of the school, Loyola grew its campus and selected world-renowned architect Frank Gehry to design an academic village. The endowed Hon. Frederick J. Lower, Jr. Chair is named in his honor.

PROFESSOR JAY DOUGHERTYCopyright Law, Entertainment LawDougherty was the senior vice president of production and worldwide acquisition legal affairs at Twentieth Century Fox and assistant general counsel for Turner Broadcasting System. He also worked in the legal departments at United Artists Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures. He heads up Loyola’s Entertainment Law Practicum, which places students in top entertainment firms.

CLINICAL PROFESSOR SUSAN POEHLSWilliam C. Hobbs Clinical Professor of Law, Trial Advocacy, District Attorney SeminarPoehls, director of Trial Advocacy, has coached Loyola’s Byrne Trial Advocacy team to 18 regional wins in 21 years at the presti-gious National Trial Competition. Poehls also oversees Loyola’s District Attorney Seminar, which prepares students for externships in the nation’s largest D.A.’s office. Prior to joining Loyola, Poehls was a litigation associate at O’Melveny & Myers LLP and a trial lawyer with the L.A. County Public Defender’s Office.

PROFESSOR ELLEN APRILLFormer Associate Dean of Academic Programs, Tax-Exempt Organizations, Federal Income TaxationAprill spearheaded the creation of Loyola’s highly regarded Tax LLM program and found-ed the Western Conference on Tax Exempt Organizations. A former law clerk for the Hon. Byron R. White, associate justice, U.S. Supreme Court, she practiced with Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP and served in the Office of Tax Policy in the U.S. Department of Treasury.

PROFESSOR CLEMENCE SMITHEquitySmith, a 1948 alumna, was the first female professor at Loyola. She joined the faculty in 1952 and became a full-time professor in 1957. “She was a brilliant teacher,” said Judge Frederick J. Lower, a 1964 alumnus and one of her students.

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Coming full circleJoanna Morales ’02 (right), director of the Cancer Legal Resource Center located on campus, discusses the case of a cancer patient with student Elleny Christopoulos. Morales also serves as an adjunct professor teaching Cancer Rights Law.

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Grand Avenue CampusIn 1933, Loyola Law School moved to its third location, a Spanish Mission–style building on South Grand Street in Los Angeles. The facility could accommodate up to 350 students and served as the Law School’s home for 31 years. Today, Loyola alumni who graduated between 1933 and 1964, while the school was at that location, refer to themselves as the Grand Avenue Gang.

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Anne o’KeeFe ’24 was Loyola’s first female graduate and a member of the first graduating class. She began her legal studies the same year American women won the right to vote. She graduated early and was sworn in as L.A.’s first woman commissioner.

eLMer S. yAMAMoTo ’28 was the first Asian- American graduate of Loyola Law School, when Asian-American discrimination was rampant. Today, Asian-Americans are the largest minority at the Law School.

dr. H. CLAude HudSon ’31 was Loyola’s first African- American graduate. He was a founder of the NAACP, when the organization was known as the Niagara Movement, and went on to found the Martin Luther King, Jr. Hospital and Broadway Savings & Loan Association.

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A little guidance—it is the differ-ence between getting there and getting lost. And when it comes to law school, between succeeding and just getting by.

Just ask students who have participated in Loyola’s 1L Alumni Mentor Program, and they’ll tell you that being able to tap into the experience and insight of someone who has “been there, done that” is priceless. It can make all the difference to a student who is nervous about an upcoming midterm or unsure of his or her curriculum track.

But mentoring is just one way in which Loyola alumni help their alma mater. Many return to campus for both formal speaking engagements and informal net-working events. Others participate in Career Services events, helping students prepare for job interviews by conducting mock interviews and offering their feedback. Still others have enlisted students for externship opportunities. And

since they know firsthand how well Loyola students can hit the ground running, alumni frequently return to recruit students for employment opportunities in their own firms and employer organizations.

Sixteen thousand strong, Loyola alumni span 50 states and 16 countries. While more than 1,000 are partners of major law firms, Loyola alumni can be found at every level of private practice, the judiciary, in-house corporations, government, public interest organi-zations, and teaching and nontra-ditional settings. In the Los Ange-les Superior Court System, more judges come from Loyola than any other school in the country.

You never know where a little guidance will get you.

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“Mentoring students has given me the satisfac-tion of helping out current students, one at a time, with whatever support I can provide. I also enjoy the work I have done on the Board of Governors to make the school a better place that the entire Loyola community can benefit from. But nothing is more rewarding than having a former student thank me for some-thing that I taught them that has helped them in their practice. What may have been a simple tip or insight to them has turned into something that, for me, will last a lifetime.”JOHN HORN ’96, managing director, Arbitration Mediation and Conciliation Center (AMCC); adjunct professor


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SeAn Kennedy ’89 As the federal public defender for the Central District of California, Kennedy supervises a public defender staff of 160. Kennedy returned to Loyola more than 10 years ago as an adjunct professor. He teaches Appel-late Advocacy and Capital Punishment. Intent on creating the conditions students will find in practice, he gives his students court transcripts that they must write into a formal complaint adhering to Ninth Circuit rules.

JeAn BoyLAn ’86 After graduation, Boylan joined the firm Gibbs, Giden, Locher and Acret, special-izing in construction litigation, making partner in 1991. She served as a volunteer attorney and board member for The HeArt Project. She joined the Loyola faculty in 1996 and is now associate dean of clinical and experiential programs. She teaches several courses, including Early Bar Program, Ethical Lawyering, Fundamentals of Bar Writing, Legal Drafting and Legal Research and Writing.

ALLAn ideS ’79Professor of Law and Christopher N. May Chair Prior to joining Loyola Law School, Ides served as a law clerk to the Hon. Clement F. Haynsworth, Jr., Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, from 1979 to 1980. He then clerked for the Hon. Byron R. White, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, from 1980 to 1981. He has written extensively in the areas of constitutional law and civil procedure and is actively involved in vari-ous public service projects, ranging from civil rights litigation to the representation of individuals in deportation proceedings.


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nAnCy SHer CoHen ’78Nancy Sher Cohen is co-head of the Insur-ance Recovery and Counseling Group at Proskauer Rose LLP and has been lead coun-sel in the prosecution of many insurance coverage lawsuits. She was lead counsel for the lender on the World Trade Center in prosecuting claims for insurance coverage for the towers. Her work also includes serv-ing as lead counsel in toxic tort cases and litigating cases for biotechnology companies in product liability and insurance matters. Sher Cohen is regularly listed as a leading insurance coverage attorney in Chambers USA and has been named by the Los Angeles Daily Journal as one of the top women litigators and most influential lawyers in California. A dedicated community leader, Sher Cohen currently serves on the board of directors or as an active member of the following organizations: Jewish Federation, Valley Beth Shalom Board of Directors, Inter-national Academy of Trial Lawyers, California Women’s Law Center and the Chancery Club. Sher Cohen continues to be active at Loyola in several ways, including her leadership on the Law School’s Board of Overseers. Sher Cohen feels that through her community efforts and work for Holocaust survivors she is fulfilling the mission of Loyola, which stresses that public and community service is an integral part of the legal profession.

JAMon HiCKS ’04Hicks is a plaintiff’s attorney and also does criminal defense work—often for the same client. Because his primary focus is police misconduct, he commonly meets his civil plaintiffs after their arrests. He handles excessive force civil rights violation cases as an associate at The Cochran Firm. “I take criminal cases and get victims of police misconduct a vindication,” he said. “And I’ve taken juvenile cases, where the parents couldn’t pay for our services, pro bono.” A past president of the John M. Langston Bar Association, an African-American lawyers group in Los Angeles, Hicks has a long his-tory of promoting inclusiveness. As a student and now as an alumnus, he has been active in the Young Lawyers Program, an after-school curriculum where inner-city high school students receive legal training from Loyola Law students, alumni and faculty. Another Hicks passion is coaching the Byrne Trial Advocacy Team, on which he competed as a Loyola Law student. While a student at Loyola Law, Hicks served as a judicial extern for the Hon. R. Gary Klausner, U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.


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BRIAN S. KABATECK ’89Kabateck is a plaintiffs-only mass torts and class action attorney and the managing partner of Kabateck Brown Kellner, LLP. He has brought actions against Fortune 500 companies, including Google, Travelers and Eli Lilly, and the first-ever cases involving stolen bank accounts and unpaid insurance claims arising from the 1915 Armenian Genocide. Kabateck’s com-mitment to Loyola can be seen through his continued involvement with Loyola’s Center for the Study of Law and Genocide, where he often speaks to students and the legal community on topics such as the practical issues confronting lawyers who wish to litigate historical cases involving mass human rights violations. Kabateck has worked with the California Legislature and Department of Insurance to draft sev-eral laws, including the Policyholder’s Bill of Rights and a groundbreaking law to help the victims of the Northridge earthquake recover insurance claims. The Los Angeles Daily Journal honored Kabateck as one of California’s Top 100 attorneys in 2009, and he has been named a California Lawyer of the Year (CLAY) by California Lawyer magazine.

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HON. KATHYRN DOI TODD ’70The Hon. Kathyrn Doi Todd often finds herself in exclusive company. Upon admittance to the bar in 1970, she was one of only three Japanese-American women practicing law in Los Angeles. In 1978, Doi Todd broke entirely new ground when she became the first female Asian-American judge in the country. Doi Todd prizes the interpretive role of a judge; she finds it to be “an absolutely wonderful position in law to consider the circumstance and framework of the law and to follow the law.” Intrigued by the often mysterious and various ways to construe the law, Doi Todd rose through the judicial ranks; from the Los Angeles Municipal Court she advanced to Superior Court, where she was the presiding judge over the Los Angeles County Juvenile Court, the nation’s largest. During her judgeship with the Superior Court, Doi Todd was bestowed with the great honor of an appointment to the California Judicial Council, the policymaking body of the state’s courts. In August of 2000, Doi Todd became an associate justice for the California Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District. Active in her community, Doi Todd has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center for more than 20 years.

FIRED UP Loyola students receive VIP treatment all over town, thanks to a strong alumni network. Students flash their IDs for exclusive discounts at venues like downtown L.A.’s Engine Co. No. 28 restaurant, a restored 1912 firehouse owned by alumni Mark Geragos ’82 and Brian Kabateck ’89.

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PracticingSocial worker Efty Sharony (right) discusses a case with students from Loyola’s Center for Juvenile Law & Policy. Students work with social workers to assess the needs of their youth clients.

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Then Students question a witness during a 1970s-era moot court competition (right). Loyola’s trial advocacy program has a long history of success.

Now Students compete during the National Civil Trial Competition (above), one of several trial competitions in which Loyola participates during the academic year.

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Byrne Trial Advocacy TeamWon the 2010 National Trial Regional Competi-tion, besting teams from 13 law schools and winning 14 of 15 judges’ ballots. The team has a record of 18 regional wins and two championships at National Trial Competitions in the past 21 years.

Hispanic National Bar Association (HNBA) Moot Court TeamWon the 2010 HNBA Uvaldo Herrera National Moot Court Competition. Team members also won Best Respondent and Best Oral Advocate awards.

ABA National Appellate Advocacy Team (Scott Moot Court Team)Defeated 96 compet-itors from 32 teams, representing 20 different law schools at the ABA Regional Appellate Advocacy Competition. The Loyola student team finished undefeated in first place.

Jessup Moot Court Team The team placed third in the U.S. Pacific Super Region-als. Two students received outstanding oralist awards out of 114 participants.

Willem C. Vis (East) International Commercial Arbitration Moot Court TeamLoyola students won “Best Team” award.

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There is a reason U.S. News & World Report has repeatedly ranked Loyola’s trial advocacy program as one of the top pro-grams in the nation. It might have something to do with the extensive, individualized training students receive. Or the fact that Loyola’s ABA National Appellate Advocacy Team went undefeated and finished in first place at the Las Vegas Regional Competition.

Then there’s the Hispanic National Bar Association (HNBA) Moot Court Team. They swept the recent HNBA national competition, winning Best Respondent Brief, Best Oral Advocate and runner-up for Best Oral Advocate.

You can’t learn to swim without jumping in a pool. Same goes for law. Loyola students learn about law by putting it into practice.

And, boy, do they practice.Highly competitive moot court

competitions are just the beginning.

Clinics include the Cancer Legal Resource Center, a joint project of Loyola and the Disability Rights Legal Center, where students work toward fulfilling their 40-hour pro bono requirement by field-ing calls from cancer patients in need of legal assistance, including conducting research and drafting correspondence for those clients. Students participating in the Center for Conflict Resolution receive conflict resolution training and do intake work, convening, conciliation, and mediation. And in the 2010 Taxpayer Appeals Assistance clinic, 95 students contributed nearly 2,400 hours of tax preparation services, achieving $500,000 to $750,000 in tax returns and earned income tax credits for their clients.

Externships are another source of hands-on experience. During spring 2010, students contributed more than 24,000 hours of super-vised services in public interest organizations, government agen-cies, state courts and federal courts, including Bankruptcy Court, U.S.


“My experience in the juvenile justice clinic, representing Los Angeles youth in the juvenile delinquency courts, takes the learning experience to a whole other level. It is one thing to understand that certain acts may result in arrest and detention. It is another to stand before a judge and argue mitigating factors to win the release of a detained client.”DORON LION, third-year day student; advocate, Center for Juvenile Law & Policy

District Court and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Several practica incorporate real-world experience, too. Entertainment Law Practicum placements, for example, include Paramount Pictures, Rhino Records and Warner Bros. Television. Additionally, the Clerkship Committee is building quite a reputation for securing record numbers of coveted federal clerkships.

Traditional law reviews, includ-ing the Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review and International and Comparative Law Review, provide an additional platform for stu-dent contributions. And Loyola students founded the Los Angeles Public Interest Law Journal, a col-laboration of students from several Los Angeles law schools dedicated to public-interest scholarship.

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JeFF inGrAMThird YearEvening student Jeff Ingram spends his days as a deputy clerk and appellate court records assistant at the California Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District, where he is also an extern for Justice Lawrence D. Rubin.

KyLe TrACy ’10Kyle’s Loyola experi-ence was centered on learning outside the classroom. He worked as a youth advocate in Loyola’s Center for Juvenile Law and Policy, and he spent a summer in the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office. As president of the Public Interest Law Foundation, he helped raise funds for students’ public-interest scholarships.

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SHeLLey AzzAriToThird YearShelley credits her experience on Loyola’s Byrne Trial Advocacy Team with preparing her for the courtroom—and a coveted summer job with Girardi | Keese, a high-profile plaintiff’s law firm. “Being on the Byrne team has provided me with the practical training that every law student should have,” she said. “I can’t imagine leaving law school without it.”

POSITIVE ENERGY The Class of 2010 Legacy Gift raises funds for solar panels for the Fritz B. Burns building located on campus. The panels will take pressure off L.A.’s coal-based grid while the money saved will go toward student scholarships.


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Thursday Schedule Third-Year Day Program 2009-10

7:00 – 8:00 Start my day with a jog around Silver Lake Reservoir.

8:30 – 9:00 I take the Metro Red Line (sub-way/train) into downtown from Los Feliz; from downtown, I hop on Loyola’s shuttle pickup at 7th and Figueroa and take it to Loyola.

9:00 – 9:30 Grab coffee from the coffee cart and a pancake breakfast at Sonia’s.

9:30 – 11:00 Land Use Regulation with Professor Selmi.

11:00 – 12:00 Stop by Loyola Environmental Law Society office, coordinate upcoming activities with outside organizations such as the Sierra Club and the Urban Land Institute. Arrange guest speakers for student-run con-ferences on environmental law and land use.

12:00 – 1:30 Lunch – Take the shuttle to L.A. LIVE or 7th and Figueroa downtown dining and shopping complex.

1:30 – 1:45 Take the Metro Red Line to Spring Street.

2:00 – 6:00 Spend the afternoon at the Ronald Reagan Building externing at the California Department of Justice, Land Law section, or sitting in and observing oral arguments at the Court of Appeal.

6:30 – 8:00 Return to Loyola for my night class in Environmental Law, or linger down-town at Urth Cafe and study before taking the Metro Red Line back to Los Feliz.

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dAy in THe LiFe oFCamille Rustia, third-year day student

Wednesday ScheduleSecond-Year Day Program 2009-10

8:30 – 9:30 Wake up, feed my puppy, and take him for a quick stroll.

9:30 – 12:00 Head to the library to outline reading for afternoon and evening classes.

12:00 – 1:00 Moderate Women’s Law Association (WLA) “Women in Entertainment Law” panel featuring executives from Fox, NBC, Reveille, and L.A. boutique entertain-ment law firms.

2:30 – 4:00 Head to Business Associations class lecture on partnership and agency theory.

4:00 – 4:30 Make my way over to Culver City to sit in on a settlement meeting regarding one of our textile design clients.

4:30 – 6:00 Attend the settlement meeting.

6:00 – 6:30 Grab a bite to eat and schedule while planning the WLA student/alumni tea event.

7:00 – 9:20 Volunteer at a Philippine American Bar Association silent auction in Santa Monica. Network with attorneys and law students for a good cause!

10:00 – 12:30 Head home to study for tomorrow’s early afternoon classes.

8:38 AM Dressed for the day and walking the dog

4:32 PM Meeting with colleagues about the settlement

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Short walk to a long pier (well, maybe a short ride) The 100-year-old Santa Monica Pier offers a variety of entertainment, dining and shopping experiences, and even an amusement park featuring a historic 1922 carousel and an in-teractive aquarium. The pier is open 365 days a year for people watching and some of the best sunsets along the Southern California coast. The white pristine beaches and the surf aren’t too shabby either.

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If location is everything, then Loyolans have it all. With a cam-pus situated in the heart of the vivacious City of Angels, they get to enjoy all the benefits that this fast-paced center of culture, sports, entertainment and world com-merce has to offer.

From an academic standpoint, Loyola is just blocks from the larg-est government district outside of Washington, D.C., providing convenient access to federal courts, major law firms and nonprofit agencies. In fact, Loyola is closer to downtown Los Angeles courts than any other law school. Students working or externing downtown

can simply walk there or hop a campus shuttle.

In turn, alumni, lawyers, judges and other legal professionals can easily stop by campus for network-ing events and various classroom and lunchtime speaking engage-ments, which occur almost daily.

Loyola’s proximity to L.A. LIVE, which has several restau-rants, a Lucky Strike bowling alley and a movie theater, as well as the Staples Center—home of the Lakers, Clippers, Kings and Sparks—is ideal for social excursions. Additional attractions include the world-famous Getty Museum, Universal Studios, the Santa Monica Pier and, of course, that sunny, surfy, sandy area com-monly referred to as “the beach.” And not too much farther are the

Santa Monica and San Bernardino mountain ranges, prime spots for hiking, snow sports, camping and all things outdoors.

Thanks to transportation incentive programs, including discounted Metro Rail, Metro bus and car pool parking, students also have the advantage of living just about anywhere they choose. From downtown to the beach to historic Echo Park and even neighboring Orange County, Loyola makes commuting easy and affordable.

At the center of it all and easy to get around. Seriously, what’s not to love?

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“I moved to downtown Los Angeles to be closer to my office. I love living downtown because I can walk or take public transit everywhere. I chose Loyola because of its location—and because I needed to continue to work while attending law school. Before I became a student, I remember seeing the Loyola Law School shuttle, picking people up each evening, and thinking it was a great system. Living, working and studying downtown is definitely easier, thanks to Loyola’s location.”PHILIP REED, third-year student; executive, major insurance company


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LIGHTS, CAMERA, LOYOLA The Loyola Law School campus has served as a film set and location for a variety of movies and television shows, including Feds and L.A. Law, and for commercials for companies such as Lexus. The Jerry Bruckheimer–produced TV medical drama Eleventh Hour also filmed on Loyola’s campus.

niGHTLiFeLoyola is located in the heart of one of the most dynamic and vibrant cities in the world, with a wide array of nightclubs, bars, restaurants and music venues.

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enTerTAinMenTYou could walk to some of the best retail stores and boutiques around, except, as you know, “Nobody walks in L.A.” So take a shuttle to L.A. LIVE, a one-of-a-kind entertainment complex adjacent to the Staples Center sports complex and Nokia Theatre.

CuLTureLos Angeles is blessed with some of the top art muse-ums in the world, like the world-class Getty Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA).

1. Loyola Law School2. ACLU3. L.A. Convention Center4. Nokia Theatre5. Staples Center6. Grammy Museum7. Grand Hope Park

8. 7th St./Metro Ctr. Station9. The Standard10. Library Bar11. L.A. Public Library12. Pershing Square13. MOCA14. Grand Central Market

15. Ronald Reagan Building16. Downtown Independent17. Walt Disney Concert Hall18. L.A. Times Building19. L.A. Police Department20. L.A. Opera21. L.A. Superior Courthouse

22. L.A. County Law Library23. L.A. City Hall24. Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels25. Olvera Street26. Union Station27. Dodger Stadium


Kirkland & Ellis LLPLoyola alumni serve as partners at this large firm, which specializes in litigation, intel-lectual property, and corporate and tax.

Loyola Law School Located minutes away from downtown L.A.’s courthouses and big law firms.

Law Offices of Geragos & Geragos; Kabateck Brown & Kellner, LLPMany alumni have founded their own law firms. Alumni Mark Geragos ’82 and Brian Kabateck ’89 purchased an iconic downtown building to house their firms.

White & Case LLPLoyola alumni serve as partners at this global corporate and banking firm.

Baker Keener & Nahra LLPRobert C. Baker ’71 founded this bou-tique trial firm known for its litigation prowess and success at complex corporate defense work.

JAMS ADRSeveral alumni—many of whom are former judges—conduct alternative dispute resolution.

Federal Public Defender, Central District of CaliforniaAlumnus Sean Kennedy ’89 heads an office that includes Loyola alumni.

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Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & walker LLPSeveral Loyola alumni serve as partners at this large firm, which spe-cializes in nearly every practice area, with 18 offices worldwide.

o’Melveny & Myers LLPLoyola alumni serve as partners at this full-service law firm with expertise in areas like corporate law, entertainment financing, labor, litigation and tax.

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLPThomas J. Nolan ’75, responsible for litigating the high-profile Mattel v. MGA Entertainment, is one of several Loyola alumni who serve as partners at this firm, known for its corpo-rate and merger-and-acquisition practices.

Beyond Los AngelesLoyola alumni are a major presence out-side of L.A. Alumnus Mark Robinson ’72, based in Orange County, won the landmark Ford Pinto products liability case. Outside California, Loyola alumni have served as state governors (Hawaii and Nevada), corporate presidents and CEOs (The Hartford Insurance Group, Entravision Communications) and other high- profile positions.

Sheppard, Mullin, richter & Hampton LLPLoyola alumni are part-ners at this firm known for banking, litigation and entertainment.

Gibson, dunn & Crutcher LLPLoyola alumni have served as partners and associates at this firm, whose litigators have been dubbed “game changers” by American Lawyer magazine.

Los Angeles Superior CourtMore L.A. Superior Court judges received their law de-grees from Loyola than any other law school.

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Student bodyIf you stop in to a class at Loyola, like the Fundamentals of Bar Exam Writing session pictured, you will experience firsthand the exciting mix of students with different backgrounds and perspectives.

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When it comes to demonstrating its commitment to diversity, Loyola was ahead of its time. Take Anne O’Keefe. Not only was she one of eight in Loyola’s first gradu-ating class, she was the school’s first woman graduate.

And that was in 1924. Loyola was walking the commit-

ment-to-diversity talk long before it was required. Its history is one of making a legal education available to a diverse student body. In fact, Loyola started as an evening pro-gram, to accommodate those who had to work during the day.

Some 90 years later, Loyola’s commitment to diversity spans all areas—from students and faculty to community outreach.

Loyola’s student population is loaded with diverse perspectives, undergraduate majors and life

experience. Among its more than 1,300 students, you’ll find business owners, case managers, teachers, engineers and social activists. There are those who have com-pleted congressional internships and others who took time off from school to travel or start a family.

Diversity is also reflected in 35 active student groups, which include professional interest groups such as the Criminal Law and the Internet & Technology Law societies, and ethnic-related groups, such as the Jewish Law Students Association, Women’s Law Association and South Asian Law Students Association, among others.

Two of those student groups, La Raza de Loyola and the Black Law Students Association, extend-ed their commitment to diversity outside the classroom when they established the Judge Stephen O’Neil Trial Advocacy Mentoring Program in 2000. The program connects at-risk high school stu-dents of color with law students of similar backgrounds to show them

that people of all backgrounds have opportunities in the legal profession and can benefit from an advanced degree. The program culminates in a mock trial before L.A. Superior Court judges. Also known as The Young Lawyers Program, the mentoring initiative was awarded the American Bar Association’s Dean Henry J. Ramsey, Jr. Diversity Award.

Loyola might present itself as a law school, but that is not all that is being taught. Substantial lessons in personal integrity, professional ethics and social justice are imparted as well.

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“Loyola values all types of diversity. My classmates had careers in a wide range of industries. They also came from different backgrounds, neighborhoods, cultures and countries. This work and life diversity greatly enhanced my experience at Loyola; it taught me how to analyze issues from different angles and approach solutions with sensitivity to different perspectives. Through its commit-ment to diversity, Loyola not only created an environment in which I felt comfortable as an African-American student, but it created a law school culture that enabled me to thrive.”GEORGE C. FATHEREE, III ’07, associate, Skadden, Arps, Meagher, Slate & Flom LLP


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A journey to justiceAnnually at Loyola the Johnnie L. Cochran, Jr. ’62 Public Service award is presented to an individual who is considered a trailblazer, innovator, master attorney and mentor who has demonstrated excellence in their profession and the legal community, as well as dedication to social justice and a commitment to serving their community. Pictured above are the Hon. John V. Meigs ’78 of the Los Angeles Superior Court and the Hon. Terry J. Hatter, Jr., Senior Judge and Chief Judge Emeritus for the United States District Court, Central District of California. Judge Hatter is the recipient of the 2010 Johnnie L. Cochran, Jr. Public Service award.

CULTURAL COUP During Diversity Week, Loyola Law School student groups hosted a variety of events, including a night of hilarious Russell Peters videos, a Persian New Year celebration and a presentation on diversity in the LGBT community.


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SCoTT GoLdMAnAn evening student with a wife and son, Scott runs his own film production company. He participated in Loyola Law School’s London Summer Intellectual Property Institute.

niCoLe PAPinCAKNicole, an organizer of the Wit of Mandamus campus talent show, is president of OutLaw, the law society for gay, lesbian and transgen-der students and their allies. She is vice president of the Student Bar Association.

SAM LiuSam, a board member of the Asian Pacific American Law Students As-sociation, worked as a law clerk at the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund. He was an education advocate at Loyola’s Youth Education Justice Clinic.

eriKA GreenErika is a member of the Black Law Students Association and the Women’s Law Association. A participant in Loyola’s London Summer Intellectual Property Institute, she is on the staff of the International and Comparative Law Review. She helped the Disability Rights Legal Center draft a guide to health care for children with disabilities.

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TSoLiK KAzAndJiAn Tsolik is a member of Loyola’s Armenian Law Students Association and the former president of the Evening Student Bar Association. She was a summer associate at Holland & Knight LLP.

ryAn downinG An engineer by day, Ryan has worked for the United States Air Force and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and has top security clearance.

royA rAHMAnPourRoya, who is fluent in Farsi, is the interorganizational chair of the Jewish Law Students Association and a member of the Women’s Law Association. She was a legal intern for the Center for Governmental Studies, a political-reform think tank.

AGuSTin orozCoAgustin enrolled at Loyola Law School after running his family’s machine shop business. As a law student, he has worked at the Na-tional Immigration Law Center and at McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP.

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in the evening Loyola’s evening classes start at 6 p.m. Monday through Thursday, with no classes on Friday.

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School’s in, surf’s up “Because balancing work and school can be demanding, as an evening student I try to take advantage of the wonderful L.A. weather and the beach. I dedicate my time outside of class to not only working at a law firm during the day but surfing and volunteering with my local Surfrider Foundation chapter on the weekends to help keep our beaches and oceans clean,” said Erin Massey, a third-year evening and Tax LLM student.


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“As a student in the Evening Program, I have the scheduling flexibility I need to accommodate school, work and volunteering. Working at a law firm while attending law school creates an opportunity to consistently practice my legal research and writing skills and apply the academics to real-world situations.” ERIN MASSEY, third-year evening and Tax LLM student

From earning multiple degrees to studying overseas, students at Loyola are getting the education they want, with options that provide more than one path to get there.

Students can sign up for the JD/MBA program, where they’ll earn a juris doctor degree at Loyola Law School in downtown Los Angeles and a masters of business admin-istration at Loyola Marymount University in Westchester, Calif., overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Getting the degrees together takes four years instead of the five to earn them separately.

Those wanting to quicken the pace can earn their JD and Tax LLM degrees in just three years. Loyola’s JD/Tax LLM program features an intensive summer tax seminar while the other summer is

open for employment as a summer associate or extern. No other law school offers such a program.

The Evening Division Program also offers an accelerated JD program, allowing students to earn a JD in three and a half years instead of the traditional four.

Ever accommodating, Loyola allows Evening Division students to take day classes and Day Division students to take evening classes. The latter is particularly attrac-tive because of the opportunity to learn from leading practitioners who teach in the evenings after work, like Adjunct Professor Josh Wattles, a former acting general counsel of Paramount Pictures who teaches Copyright Law. And come summer, Saturday courses accommodate students busy with summer work.

Those struck with the desire to make use of their passport can travel while studying, thanks to

Loyola’s collection of international summer programs. At the University of Bologna, one of Europe’s oldest and most prestigious universities, the focus is on international law. In the capital city of Beijing, it’s about Chinese Law and International Bankruptcy Law. At the University of Peace in Costa Rica, courses cover International Environmental Law and International Protection of Human Rights. And at the Intellectual Property Institute in London, learning centers on inter-national copyright, trademark and patent law.

No two students are alike, and how they pursue their law degrees shouldn’t be either. At Loyola, students can pursue their passion with the path that fits them best.

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AT HoMeLoyola Law School, Los Angeles campusLoyola is constantly working to provide a comfortable environment for students to enjoy campus day or night.

oVerSeASLondon Summer International Intellectual Property Institute Students in Loyola’s London program take a trip to Brussels, Belgium, to tour the European Union headquarters and meet with officials in-cluding ministers from the trade, patent and copyright departments.Courses include International Patent Law, International Copyright and Neighboring Rights, International Comparative Trademark and Geographical Indications Law.

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BeijingThe program is held at the University of International Business and Eco-nomics Law School, one of the most re-spected law schools in China. Courses include Introduction to Chinese Law and International Bankruptcy Law.

Costa Rica The program takes place at the University of Peace in Ciudad Colón. Courses include Selected Issues in Interna-tional Environmental Law and Selected Issues in Interna-tional Protection of Human Rights.

BolognaThe program takes place at the renowned University of Bologna.Courses include Comparative Nonprofit Law, Inter-national Commercial Arbitration and World Legal Systems.

LAW SCHOOL ON THE MOVE Loyola’s free First Monday Podcasts hosted on iTunes U have covered everything from branding “Betty Boop” and transformation in Iraq to First Amendment principles and Guantanamo detainees.


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CASe STudy 2 Cancer Legal Resource Center Tiffany Sirikulvadhana ’07 (right), staff attorney at the Cancer Legal Resource Center (CLRC), discusses cases with student interns during an afternoon briefing. The CLRC, a joint program of the Disability Rights Legal Center and Loyola Law School, provides free and confidential legal guidance to those affected by cancer. The center helps ensure that cancer survivors and their families receive the benefits to which they are entitled.

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CASe STudy 3 ACLU Torture Awareness Day Members of the Loyola community participated in the ACLU of Southern California’s Torture Awareness Day. During the event, activists displayed all the file boxes necessary to hold the 150,000 pages of declassified interrogation documentation produced by the U.S. government at the ACLU’s request. The ACLU used a Freedom of Information Act request to obtain the torture documentation. Loyola students Corina Valderrama (left) and Nicole Ball, both ACLU summer externs, helped orchestrate the event. Alumnus James Gilliam ’03, deputy executive director of the ACLU of Southern California and an adjunct professor at Loyola, was also involved with the Torture Awareness Day demonstration.

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What would you do with 40,000 hours of donated time? Revamp your iTunes collection? Actually read your friends’ Facebook pages?

Ask students at Loyola the same question, and they’ll tell you about helping active, reserve and National Guard veterans receive the benefits and services to which they are entitled through the Military Veterans Justice Project. The program also provides schol-arships to United States veterans, including those who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan, wanting to attend law school.

Others will tell you about time spent advocating for victim’s rights in a criminal case through the Center for Restorative Justice. Founded on the belief that the human harm caused by crime must be healed by a criminal justice system that is more restor-ative than punitive, the center is dedicated to exploring non-retributive approaches to crime and punishment.

Many can tell you about their work with local nonprofits and government agencies, thanks to assistance from the Public Interest Law Foundation (PILF). Students pursuing a career in public interest law are supported with scholarships, post-graduate fellowships and general guidance. PILF programs have helped victims of domestic violence and L.A.’s homeless com-munity, among others.

Students participating in the Immigrants’ Rights Practicum also work with public-interest orga-izations such as the Esperanza Immigrants Rights Project, dedi-cated to advocating for the just and fair treatment of all immigrants in detention.

You’ll also hear about the Civil Rights Litigation Seminar clinic, where students work side by side with civil rights or civil liber-ties litigators.

Loyola was the first ABA-accredited law school in California with a pro bono service requirement and one of the first in the nation to require that students complete

legal public service work in order to graduate. Through externships and pro bono work, Loyolans donate more than 40,000 hours to public service every year. It’s how Loyola demonstrates its commit-ment to social justice.

Making a positive impact on other peoples’ lives. Not a bad way to spend some time.

The Loyola community is proud of its 90-plus years of living out the school’s mission of being distinguished by its concern for social justice. Don’t worry, though. You should still have a free mo-ment to update your iTunes and check out the latest Loyola posting at iTunes U.


“Loyola’s Public Interest Law Foundation (PILF) gave me the financial support I needed to spend the summer at the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund in New York City. I had the opportunity to work on legal issues surrounding education equity and youth rights, as well as groundbreaking policy, legislation and litigation that will impact the future of America’s educational system. Loyola’s commitment to social justice extends beyond the legal world and into the public sector, and I am proud to be part of my school’s long-standing tradition of service.”SAMUEL LIU, third-year day student


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SCoTT woodProfessor of Law and Director, Center for Restorative JusticeWood is a professor at Loyola and the founding director of the Center for Restor-ative Justice, which believes that the hu-man harm caused by crime must be healed by a criminal justice system that is more restorative than puni-tive. The center offers opportunities for stu-dents to get involved in the restorative justice movement.

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Connie L. riCe Co-director, Advancement ProjectConnie L. Rice was a featured speaker at Loyola’s annual “A Journey to Justice Event,” which brings leaders in civil rights to campus to discuss topics like race and litigation, social justice and innocence. Prior to co-founding the Advancement Project, Rice was co-director of the Los Angeles office of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, an associate at the law firm of Morrison & Foerster LLP, and a clerk to the Hon. Damon J. Keith, judge of the United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit. She was also the 2007 recipient of Loyola’s Johnnie L. Cochran, Jr. Public Service award.

BArBArA BLAnCoProfessor of Law and Director, Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) Program Blanco accepted her faculty appoint-ment at Loyola after 12 years in public interest law. She continues her passion for public interest law through her leader-ship with the VITA Program, a tax return preparation course/externship Loyola runs in conjunction with the IRS and a nonprofit agency known as AIM. Students are trained to prepare tax returns for low-income residents.

VICTORY FOR TANZANIA Loyola Law School alumnus Gregory Townsend ’96 returned to campus in 2008 to discuss prosecuting war crimes before the United Nations Rwanda Tribunal in Arusha, Tanzania. In 2007, Townsend was successful in convicting a priest for genocide and Rwandan army officers for bulldozing a church full of parishioners.


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LooKinG BACKMen in moot“This melodramatic picture was taken in 1963 on the day we won the final regional round in the American College of Trial Lawyers moot court competition,” says Tony Murray ’64. “[Fellow ’64 alumnus Charles E.] Finney and I argued. I lucked out and got the Best Oral Advocate award for the Western Region (consisting of the Ninth Circuit). From that competi-tion, Finney and I went to New York for the final national rounds. We lost, but Father Donovan, who was there, gave us a great dinner at Mama Leonie’s Italian Restaurant.” Today, Loyola continues the proud tradition of preparing students to defend justice in the legal system through moot court and mock trial competitions. Pictured from left to right, Charles J. Liberto ’64, Murray and Finney.


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DEFENDING CHILDREN Loyola Law School Professor Scott Wood recently moderated two standing-room-only panels on “The Injustice of Severe Sentences for Juvenile Offenders” regarding Senate Bill 399 and Stopping LWOP for California Children and Youth.

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Proud momentThe Hon. Manuel L. Real ’51, U.S District Court, Central District of California, administers the Federal Oath at a swearing-in ceremony hosted at Loyola. This group, which includes Loyola grads who had just passed the California Bar exam, could barely keep their excitement in check. They were nervous and full of anticipation, but they were confident that they were well prepared for the road ahead.

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networking into the nightLoyola offers students countless opportunities to network and form relationships with alumni who support students with extern-ships, career advice and job leads. Students were invited to attend Loyola’s Grand Reunion, the largest annual alumni event, where alumni gather to honor their fellow classmates, as well as network with students, colleagues and leaders in the legal industry.

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“Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing,” said Theodore Roosevelt, and that is exactly the type of work Loyola graduates are prepared to do.

From government, private practice and the judiciary to busi-ness, entertainment and interna-tional law, you’d be hard-pressed to find a Loyolan who hasn’t made his or her mark in the legal field. But it doesn’t stop there. Loyola graduates are always looking for a new challenge. Why not become the athletic director for USC, the governor of Hawaii or the first woman president of the L.A. County Bar Association? Or the founder of Kung Fu Records, president and CEO of St. Francis Winery & Vineyard or CEO of The Hartford Financial Services?

Those Loyolans—whatever they end up doing, they just can’t help but succeed.

By supplementing academic excellence with real-world experi-ence, Loyola prepares students not only for the bar but for long-term success. Clinics, externships, clerk-ships and pro bono work—not to mention support from groups such as the Public Interest Law Foun-dation, which helps fund student public-interest work—give students the opportunity to put their passion into practice. And with a bar pass rate higher than the state average, it’s obviously working.

But passing the bar is only part of it.

Enter the Career Services Of-fice. Building the bridge between eager graduate and promising new hire is a variety of tools, including Symplicity, a web-based program packed with part-time, full-time and summer job opportunities posted directly by employers. Put-ting students in the hot seat is the school’s Mock Interview Program, where attorneys from a variety

of practice settings volunteer to interview students and provide constructive feedback. Finally, Loyola’s On-Campus Interview (OCI) program brings students face-to-face with potential employ-ers from law firms, government agencies, public interest organiza-tions and businesses.

And let’s not forget the amazing network of alumni, who regularly participate in interview programs and networking events and who post jobs on Symplicity. Alumni judges have also selected Loyola students for clerkships.

Support like that combined with academics and hands-on experience is why Loyola students have a proven ability to hit the ground running and why the school’s career placement rate con-sistently hovers around 90 percent, even in tough economic times.

With such a variety of oppor-tunites, the only decision left for a Loyola graduate is which career path will fit your desire to work hard at work worth doing.

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“The Career Services office at Loyola and Graham Sherr were very supportive and a fantastic resource, not only during my time at Loyola but when I faced job-related issues and decisions after graduation. I strongly encourage students to spend time in the Career Services resources library and make appointments with Career Services counselors.”MAX NORMAN ’05, associate, Forever 21, Incorporated


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LEGAL FAIR GROUNDS Loyola Law School students were invited to attend the 2010 Annual DuPont Legal Minority Job Fair, where more than 30 law firms and legal service companies that work with DuPont interviewed selected students. THE CASE FOR LOYOLA

GRAHAM SHERRAssistant Dean for Career ServicesPrior to joining the Office of Career Services in 1994, Sherr spent nearly 12 years as a legal recruiter, placing attorneys in major Southern California law firms. In addi-tion to counseling students and alumni, Sherr serves as the Law School’s primary ambassador to the job market, working to expand the Law School’s network of employers.

MAX NORMAN ’05Associate Counsel, Forever 21, IncorporatedMax Norman began his career at K&R Law Group, a 40-attorney firm focused on health care litigation. He obtained his job through the On-Campus Interview (OCI) program led by Loyola’s Career Services department. Max obtained his current role at Forever 21, Incorporated, after coming across the job posting on Loyola’s online web-based job search program. Students and graduates can search for part-time, full-time and summer job opportunities, as well as review employer profiles and read employer evaluations.

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From a walk to a runOne day you’re strolling to class across the visually dynamic Loyola Law School campus, designed by architecture superstar Frank Gehry, and the next thing you know you’re off and running. Loyola prides itself on preparing its graduates for the real world. As a corner-stone of the school’s mission for 90 years, and counting, that truly makes a Loyola Law School experience unique and invaluable. Are you ready to hit the ground running? Let’s go.

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