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Perspective

Jul. 23, 2015

Cultural competence is crucial in the courtroom

Lawyers in states with as much international business and travel as California have a greater need for cultural competence, or at least cultural awareness, than lawyers in many other places. By Thomas M. Hall


By Thomas M. Hall


Lawyers in states with as much international business and travel as California have
a greater need for cultural competence, or at least cultural awareness, than lawyers
in many other places. People from diverse cultures come to California for work or
school, or to flee oppression. They meet other people from other cultures, marry,
start families, squabble and sometimes divorce. Married ...

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