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Top Women Lawyers

May 8, 2014

Mary-Lee Kimber Smith

Disability Rights Advocates Berkeley Specialty: Civil rights


Smith serves as lead plaintiff counsel in a case alleging that the Contra Costa County's Juvenile Hall is violating the rights of children with disabilities by keeping them locked up in solitary confinement.


In some cases, she said, the children are confined for up to 23 hours a day, some of them for more than 100 days a year. G.F., et al, v. Contra Costa County, et al, C13-3667 (N.D. Cal., filed Aug. 8, 2013).


"While they're in conf...

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