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TeachingThe attorneys at OBSK remain active in teaching both law students in the classroom, and other attorneys through continuing legal education programs. We consider it our obligation to be fully conversant with the most recent developments in all areas of law, and to integrate that knowledge into our practice for the benefit of our clients. Our senior attorneys are regularly asked to share that knowledge as professors or visiting lecturers in classes at the U.C.L.A. School of Law, the University of Southern California Law Center, and Loyola Law School, and as speakers at professional continuing legal education programs for both lawyers and judges.Mark Overland, as the co-author of the leading criminal law treatise California Criminal Procedure, Motions and Jury Instructions (5 volumes) (1983-2007) Thomson West Publications and The Complete Sentencing Handbook (1983-1993), has been a lecturer on Continuing Education for Superior Court judges, and has lectured throughout the state on substantive and procedural criminal law matters, evidence, and constitutional issues. Formerly, with the Los Angeles County Office of the Public Defender, he created and supervised the office training program for approximately 400 attorneys. Mark Borenstein was a Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Southern California Law School in 1997, where he taught civil procedure. Since then, he has served as an Adjunct Professor of Law at USC, where he teaches advanced civil procedure to second, third and LL.M. law students. His classes typically focus on arbitration and jury trials. He has also been a Panelist at the Los Angeles County Bar Training Program for New Lawyers and has lectured on employment, workplace safety, pension, disability and civil procedure subjects. David Scheper has taught classes on white collar crime at Loyola Law School, the Practising Law Institute and CLE International. He has also taught trial advocacy at the University of Southern California Law Center, the National Institute for Trial Advocacy, and the Attorney General's Advocacy Institute. Mr. Scheper is a frequent lecturer on trial advocacy at area law schools and prosecuting offices, and has recently served as a panelist for bar groups on topics ranging from the False Claims Act, backdating of stock options, and corporate internal investigations. Diann Kim has given numerous continuing legal education presentations and demonstrations on advanced antitrust issues, civil investigative demands, distribution and marketing and professional responsibility, including at the Practising Law Institute Annual Advanced Antitrust Seminars in 2003 and 2004, the ABA Spring 2002 National Legal Malpractice conference, and the California State Bar Section Education Institutes. Kelley Poleynard, since the fall of 2004, has been teaching legal writing at Whittier Law School, where she is now an Assistant Professor of Legal Writing. Ms. Poleynard's writing course is a rigorous, required two-semester course, emphasizing legal research, analytic reasoning, and legal writing techniques. She also teaches Professional Skills to second year students, teaching skills including problem-solving, legal analysis and reasoning, interviewing factual investigation, counseling, negotiation, written and oral communication, organization and management of legal work, and recognizing and resolving ethical dilemmas. |
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