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  2. Clara Shortridge Foltz - Wikipedia

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    Clara Shortridge Foltz (July 16, 1849 – September 2, 1934) was an American lawyer, the first female lawyer on the West Coast, and the pioneer of the idea of the public defender. The Criminal Courts Building in downtown Los Angeles was renamed after her in 2002, and is now known as the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center.

  3. List of first women lawyers and judges in California - Wikipedia

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    Georgia Bullock (1913): [27] [28] First female judge in Los Angeles County, California (1931) May Darlington Lahey (1914): [411] First female (who was Australian) to serve as the Presiding Judge of the Los Angeles Municipal Court (c. 1943) Mabel Walker Willebrandt (1917): [412] First female Public Defender of Los Angeles County, California (c ...

  4. Los Angeles County Bar Association - Wikipedia

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    The Los Angeles County Bar Association (LACBA) is a voluntary bar association with more than 16,000 members throughout Los Angeles County, California, and the world. [1] Founded in 1878, LACBA has strived to meet the professional needs of lawyers, advance the administration of justice, and provide the public with access to justice. [2]

  5. Stephen G. Larson - Wikipedia

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    During law school, Larson was an instructor at Daniel Murphy High School in Los Angeles from 1988 to 1989. From 1995 to 1999, he was a lecturer at California State University, Long Beach . From 1997 to 2001 he was an adjunct assistant professor at the Glendale University College of Law , and from 2001 to 2005 he was an instructor at the ...

  6. Section 8 (housing) - Wikipedia

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    The main Section 8 program involves the voucher program. A voucher may be either "project-based"—where its use is limited to a specific apartment complex (public housing agencies (PHAs) may reserve up to 20% of its vouchers as such [11])—or "tenant-based", where the tenant is free to choose a unit in the private sector, is not limited to specific complexes, and may reside anywhere in the ...

  7. Editorial: Fires aggravated L.A.'s housing crisis. We need to ...

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    Los Angeles County already had a shortage of 500,000 units, and more than half of tenants spend more than a third of their income in rent. There have been reports of price gouging, in violation of ...

  8. Daniel M. Petrocelli - Wikipedia

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    Petrocelli successfully argued the case, in spite of Simpson's 1995 acquittal in the related 1994 criminal murder case, and a jury awarded the Goldman family $8.5 million in damages. His book about the case, Triumph of Justice: The Final Judgment on the Simpson Saga (1998), written with co-author Peter Knobler, became a national bestseller. [5]

  9. Manatt, Phelps & Phillips - Wikipedia

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    Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP is a Los Angeles-based law firm of more than 450 attorneys and other professionals founded in 1965. The firm earned revenues of $316.9 million in 2017. The firm earned revenues of $316.9 million in 2017.