Class recorded June 22, 2022.

This panel discussion will provide information regarding a variety of post-graduate fellowship opportunities, including the Equal Justice Works, Skadden, Justice Catalyst, and Immigrant Justice Corp Fellowships. Topics covered will include how to find a sponsor organization, how to ensure quality recommendations, how to develop a project proposal, how to shop it to sponsor agencies, and more.

Presented by:

Rachel Kronick Rothbart, Moderator, Director or Career Services Office, USC Gould School of Law

Stephano Medina, Skadden Fellow, Eviction Defense Network

Courtney Mendoza, Equal Justice Works Fellow, Equal Justice Works

Kathleen Rivas, Justice Catalyst Fellow, Catalyst

Rebecca Taylor, Immigrant Justice Corps Fellow, Immigrant Justice Corps

Registration Fee: FREE

LA Law Library does not provide legal advice: LA Law Library does not provide legal advice. LA Law Library provides legal resources and assistance with legal research as an educational service. The information presented in this program is not legal advice and is provided solely as an educational service to our patrons. For legal advice, you should consult an attorney.

June 22, 2021: 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Class will be held via Zoom. Zoom information will be emailed to registrants prior to class start time.

Update: We just learned that author and NBC/MSNBC correspondent Jacob Soboroff will join us for our discussion of his book Separated: Inside an American Tragedy on Tuesday June 22, 2021 6:30 – 8:00 pm! Don’t miss this chance to discuss family separation at the border and other issues regarding immigrant children and families. Register here https://bit.ly/3xri764. Zoom link will be emailed after registration.

Join the LA Law Library book discussion group as we continue our year-long examination of immigration policies and issues with a discussion of Separated: An American Tragedy, by Jacob Soboroff.  As a correspondent for NBC news, Soboroff was among the first to report on the Trump administration’s family separation policy.  Beyond the headlines lay an untold multilayered story. Separated weaves together the voices of one separated family from Guatamala; the heroes who emerged to challenge the separation policy and worked on the ground to reunite parents with children; and Soboroff’s own story covering the issues at the border in Texas, California and Arizona, with administration officials in Washington, DC, and inside the disturbing detention facilities.

Awards:

• LA Times Book Prize finalist
• American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel Award Finalist
• Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Television and Political Journalism (individual achievement by a national journalist)
• Soboroff, Julia Ainsley and team awarded 2019 Hillman Prize for Broadcast Journalism

Presented by: Katie O’Laughlin, Managing Librarian, Reference & Research

Registration fee: FREE

LA Law Library does not provide legal advice: LA Law Library does not provide legal advice. LA Law Library provides legal resources and assistance with legal research as an educational service. The information presented in this program is not legal advice and is provided solely as an educational service to our patrons. For legal advice, you should consult an attorney.

Tuesday, November 2, 2021: 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

--- CLASS WILL BE HELD VIA ZOOM. ZOOM INFORMATION WILL BE EMAILED TO REGISTRANTS PRIOR TO CLASS START TIME ---

For a small business hiring its first few employees, the thicket of rules and regulations on things like sick time, wages, benefits, and termination can easily become overwhelming. In this class, an employment lawyer and small business owner will cut through the maze to help you focus on what you need to know.

Class covers:

• Best practices to avoid liability and maximize employee success
• Common employment law issues facing smaller businesses
• New sick time and related laws in California
• Family and medical leave laws – do they apply to me?
• Major dos and don’ts to keep in mind, and resources for help

Presented by Karen A. Rooney:

Karen Rooney has over 30 years of litigation experience, mostly in employment-related claims, including extensive trial and arbitration experience. She has represented many small businesses over the years, and is herself a small business owner and employer. Ms. Rooney served on the Board of the L.A. County Bar Association Attorney Referral Service and has volunteered as a mediator with both the Bar Association and the L.A. County Superior Court. She received her J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of San Diego School of Law.

Registration fees: FREE - sponsored by the Friends of the Los Angeles County Law Library through the generous support of Pacific Western Bank.

No legal advice:
LA Law Library does not provide legal advice. LA Law Library provides legal resources and assistance with legal research as an educational service. The Law Library is pleased to offer our patrons the opportunity to obtain assistance from third party legal service providers at this and other events within the Library. However, the Library does not control and is not responsible for the content or scope of any assistance given by those providers.

August 24, 2021: 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Class will be held via Zoom. Zoom information will be emailed to registrants prior to class start time.

Writer Karla Cornejo Villavicencio was on DACA when she decided to write about being undocumented using her own name. She wrote her immigration lawyer’s phone number on her hand in Sharpie and embarked on a trip across the country to tell the stories of her fellow undocumented immigrants – and to find the hidden key to her own story. The result is a combination of sensitive reporting and powerful personal narratives of “people who don’t inspire hashtags or t-shirts”. Instead she writes about day laborers, housekeepers, construction workers, dog walkers, and deliverymen while telling her own experiences and those of her Ecuadorian parents. The stories she tells are not deferential or naively inspirational but show the love, magic, heartbreak and insanity that infuse the day-to-day lives of her subjects.

The Book and Author:

• National Book Award and Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist.
• Included in Best Books of the Year (2020) in New York Times Book Review, NPR, Time, New York Public Library and Library Journal.
• Author is one of the first undocumented immigrants to graduate from Harvard and is currently a doctoral candidate in the American Studies program at Yale University.

Presented by: Katie O’Laughlin, Managing Librarian, Reference & Research

Registration fee: FREE