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Large Firms

Aug. 1, 2009

Cutting-Edge Research, Instead of Idle Hours, for Law Firm Summers

In a summer when many law students sat idle at firms for lack of work, 29 summer associates at 14 Los Angeles firms spent time researching topics like religious freedom and same-sex marriage for the Anti-Defamation League.

By Amanda Becker
Daily Journal Staff Writer

LOS ANGELES - During a summer when many law students sat idle at firms for lack of work, 29 summer associates at 14 Los Angeles firms spent a portion of their time drafting research memorandums about case studies that touch on topics like religious freedom and same-sex marriage which could eventually be used by the Anti-Defamation League when it files amicus curiae briefs with the court.

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