On October 5, 2017, the Los Angeles Chapter of the Federal Bar Association held its 35th annual lunch in recognition of the five Judge Barry Russell Federal Practice Award recipients from local law schools; the event also included the swearing-in of the new FBA-LA officers and Board of Directors, and...
The radical shift in focus of the Department of Justice compounded by the Trump administration’s 2018 budget cuts indicates drastic changes for the prosecution of white collar crimes.
In the words of Justice Kennedy, there is an “imperative to purge racial prejudice from the administration of justice,” which the courts have given strength and creed since ratification of the Civil War Amendments. This “racial prejudice purge” has historically infiltrated the courts and has influenced their decisions since the...
Nina Marino is the author of "The Accidental Defendant," in Los Angeles Lawyer Magazine.
I come from a family of lawyers. My mother is a lawyer, my father, my sister, my brother, my uncles and cousins, on both sides, are all lawyers. They are all, like me, solo or small firm lawyers, except for my uncle who owned and ran the New York Marino...
Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison (Spiegel & Grau, New York, 2010), is the memoir of Piper Kerman, an upper middle-class Smith College graduate sent to prison for a drug conspiracy. In the course of her tale, we learn her case dragged on for four...
Your new client, Alex, is leaving his office one ordinary afternoon when he is approached in the parking lot by several Federal Marshals. The Marshals say they just want to ask him a few questions, but grill him about a foreign business venture he'd invested in some years before. It...
