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Personal Injury & Torts

Mar. 11, 2010

Hastings Grad Sues Her School

Stephanie Sukhram, a 25-year-old UC Hastings College of the Law graduate, who passed the California bar exam last summer, filed a lawsuit under the Americans with Disabilities Act against her alma mater on February 25.

By Rebecca Beyer

Daily Journal Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - Stephanie Sukhram dreamed about being a lawyer from the time she was 7 years old. But she never dreamed that she would be her own first client or that the target of her first lawsuit would be the very school where she earned her degree.

And yet that's just the situation she finds herself in today. The 25-year-old UC Hastings College of the Law graduate, who passed...

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