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Oct. 14, 2009

Spinal Injury Shatters Law Career

Jeffrey M. Rawitz, who defended the former O.C. sheriff against corruption charges, resigned from Jones Day because of a severe spinal cord injury.

By Don J. DeBenedictis

Daily Journal Staff Writer

Jeffrey M. Rawitz, one of the two principal criminal defense lawyers for former Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona, resigned as a partner from Jones Day last week because of a severe spinal cord injury.

Rawitz, a former assistant U.S. attorney and rising star in the firm, had walked with a slow, shuffling gait during Carona's federal corruption trial last year, and he deliver...

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