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Bear with Me @BerkeleyLaw
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November 29, 2021
Racial Justice Lawyers
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jami_Floyd">Jami Floyd</a> '98 talks with lawyers in Sacramento, Oakland and Los Angeles about sixty-years of racial justice lawyering:</p> <p><a href="https://johnburrislaw.com">John Burris</a> graduated in 1973 and worked at Jenner & Block in Chicago before he moved back to California. He’s worked on the highest profile police brutality/excessive force cases in California, including LA (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_King#1991_police_assault_in_Los_Angeles">Rodney King</a>), Fruitvale (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Oscar_Grant">Oscar Grant</a>), San Francisco (<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/feb/12/mario-woods-autopsy-san-francisco-police-fatal-shooting">Mario Woods</a>), and Oakland (<a href="https://richmondconfidential.org/2020/12/05/revisiting-the-celeste-guap-case-four-years-later/">Celeste Guap</a>; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_v._City_of_Oakland">Oakland Riders</a>). <a href="https://law.ucla.edu/faculty/faculty-profiles/karin-h-wang">Karin Wang</a> ’95 worked to secure and defend public benefits and labor rights in Los Angeles and the Southwest, including in the civil rights office of the Dept. Health & Human Services and as the Vice President at <a href="https://advancingjustice-la.org">Asian Americans Advancing Justice-LA</a>. Now, she runs the public interest program at UCLA Law. <a href="https://imadvocates.org/about/">Jackie Gonzalez</a> ’09 defends families targeted by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, first in San Francisco. She has led networks of organizations serving low-income immigrants before becoming the policy director of a group focused on abolishing immigration detention facilities in California (<a href="https://immigrationinitiative.harvard.edu/files/hii/files/iih_brief_no._7_english_.pdf?m=1613507516">Recent Publication</a> in English; <a href="https://immigrationinitiative.harvard.edu/files/hii/files/spanish_brief_7_iih_feb_2021.pdf?m=1613508044">Publicación reciente en español</a>). Jami Floyd worked at the White House, ABC News, MSNBC and is the Senior Editor for Race & Justice at New York Public Radio.<br> </p> <p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B093RP1X4C/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_Q0G8CE19FA4AS04JH0Q8">Jackie's Book</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0312203926/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_16VKAM4P230VPD8NPQFE">John's Book</a></p>
October 8, 2021
International Attorneys @BerkeleyLaw
<p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/smitarajmohan/">Smita Rajmohan</a>, Senior Counsel at Autodesk and Director at the Berkeley Law Alumni Association, leads the conversation with ex-LLM (masters) students at Berkeley Law, that are now widely successful attorneys in the US. This episode showcases a truly diverse set of voices with <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/helena-jung-engfeldt-4237912/">Helena Engfelt</a>, Partner at Baker McKenzie, SF (from Sweden), <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/annamariagalinska/">Anna Maria Galinska</a>, Senior Director at Gritstone Bio, SF (from Poland), <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/nneka-okafor-b0292714/">Nneka Okafor</a>, Counsel at International Finance Corporation, World Bank Group, DC (from Nigeria). The discussion is in equal parts funny, candid and insightful and covers many facets of the foreign attorney experience - from culture shocks and choosing classes, to networking, job hunting and beyond. </p>
September 13, 2021
Becoming a Public Defender
<p>Continuing our series on first jobs out of law school, we connect with four public defenders. Two members from the Class of 2011 are with the Oakland Public Defender (<a href="https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/02/11/since-2013-an-oakland-man-has-faced-life-in-felony-child-assault-case-it-took-five-days-of-trial-for-a-judge-to-find-he-was-innocent/">Joe</a> Goldstein-Breyer & <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephanie-clark-55842410a/">Stephanie Clark</a>); <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/armillastaleyngomo/">Armilla Staley Ngomo '08</a> works at the Federal Defenders in San Diego, and <a href="https://pubdef.lacounty.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Ricardo-Garc%C3%ADa-bio-edited3-pjj.pdf">Ricardo Garcia '95</a> runs the largest public defender office in America (Los Angeles). The four alums discuss the job's strains and rewards, misperceptions about the profession, and why they love what they do. Bear With Me is a project of the Berkeley Law Alumni Association. </p> <p><br></p> <p><br></p> <p><br></p>
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