A  Discussion with three Los Angeles Attorneys     

23 Sep
12:00 pm
Add to Calendar 2021-09-23 12:00:00 2021-09-23 12:00:00 Perspectives from the Field  A  Discussion with three Los Angeles Attorneys      Via Zoom Occidental College info@kwallcompany.com America/Los_Angeles public
Location: Via Zoom
Event Date: Sep. 23, 2021

Katelyn Rowe ('13) participated in the Rebellious Lawyering and Oxy-at-the-UN Programs. After graduating in 2013, Katelyn served as a JusticeCorps volunteer and assisted self-represented litigants in navigating small claims court. Katelyn then attended UCLA School of Law and graduated with a specialization in Public Interest Law and Policy. As an attorney, Katelyn worked as a Commercial Litigation & Disputes Associate at Sidley Austin LLP, where she worked primarily on two impactful pro bono immigration cases, Chhoeun v. Marin and Ramos v. Nielsen. She then served as a law clerk to a United States District Court Judge in the Central District of California for two years. Katelyn will be joining Community Legal Aid SoCal this fall as a Staff Attorney in the Complex Litigation Unit.

Anne Busacca-Ryan ('04) is an attorney withis an attorney with the Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Education where she investigates discrimination on the basis of color, disability, national origin, race, and sex in K-12 and postsecondary schools. Before joining OCR, Anne represented students and families at the intersection of school discipline and special education, and served as a member of the Ella T. v. State of California litigation team.  

Andrew Talai is an appellate attorney at the Federal Public Defender's Office for the Central District of California, where he represents indigent defendants in direct criminal appeals. Before that, Andrew was an associate at Sidley Austin LLP and a member of the firm's Supreme Court and Appellate practice. He represented individual and corporate clients at all stages of litigation, including on the merits and at the certiorari stage in the U.S. Supreme Court. He personally argued in trial and appellate courts and handled major cases that presented challenging legal questions, including issues of constitutional law, statutory interpretation and administrative law. Andrew served as a law clerk to the Honorable R. Guy Cole, Jr., of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, and to the Honorable Andrew J. Guilford of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. Andrew received his J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, where he was an articles editor for the California Law Review and earned membership in the Order of the Coif

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