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Education

Dec. 3, 2013

Legal education veteran takes helm at Southwestern

Susan Westerber Prager, who took over as dean of Southwestern Law School last month, brings a consensus-building, "mull-it-over type" leadership style to the L.A. institution.


By Don J. DeBenedictis


Daily Journal Staff Writer


When trustees asked Susan Westerberg Prager what she hoped to accomplish if she were chosen as dean of Southwestern Law School, she tried to evade the question.


Now that she has the job - Prager took office as the Los Angeles law school's 11th dean and first female dean on Nov. 1 - her answer to such questions is, "I don't know enough."


That is pure Prager. "I&#...

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