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Education: Bachelor's and law degrees from the University of Florida. Professional: Palm Beach County State Attorney's Office, 2012-2015; ... Candidate for county judge: Douglas Leifert.
Leifert began working as a criminal defense attorney in Palm Beach County in 1995 after spending five years as a prosecutor with the State Attorney's Office. Nine county judges will return to the ...
A legal clinic (also law clinic or law-school clinic) is a legal aid or law-school program providing services to various clients and often hands-on legal experience to law students. Clinics are usually directed by clinical professors. [1] Legal clinics typically conduct pro bono work, providing free legal services to clients. Legal clinics ...
To be chief, a judge must have been in active service on the court for at least one year, be under the age of 65, and have not previously served as chief judge. A vacancy is filled by the judge highest in seniority among the group of qualified judges. The chief judge serves for a term of seven years, or until age 70, whichever occurs first.
New District Judge Beth Labson Freeman receives the oath of office from Northern District Chief Judge Claudia Ann Wilken (April 24, 2014). On June 20, 2013, President Barack Obama nominated Freeman to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, to a new seat created on October 3, 2011, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 133(b)(1 ...
From 2002 to 2011, Court worked as an attorney and later vice president and general counsel at Bet Tzedek Legal Services. [3] On December 27, 2011, Court was appointed by California Governor Jerry Brown to serve as a judge of the Los Angeles County Superior Court to fill the vacancy left by the retirement of Judge Conrad R. Aragon. [4]
After clerking for a U.S. District Court judge, Forbes entered the world of civil litigation, working for two large law firms for 27 years. Then Forbes took a leap.
The ability to deliver legal remedies to the clients was only one part of the solution deployed by EBCLC. The other half enlisted the collaborative efforts of community members, academic and educational forces (i.e. law students serving the clinic) along with legal proposals to change the laws that allowed for this legal poverty trap to exist.