Law Practice
Aug. 27, 2009
Ivory Tower Gains Appeal in Downturn
Jim Gash, an associate professor at Pepperdine University School of Law in Malibu and associate dean for student life, gave up a career in private practice at Kirkland & Ellis to be a law school professor at Pepperdine University.
Daily Journal Staff Writer Former Los Angeles litigator Megan La Belle always knew she wanted to trade the courtroom for the classroom. On July 31, she did just that. La Belle ended her longtime association with Munger, Tolles & Olson, for a new career as an assistant professor of law at the Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law, in Washington, D.C. "I feel fortunate to have had real-life experience," said...
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