Editing USC Gould School of Law

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The '''University of Southern California Law School''' ('''Gould School of Law'''), located in [[Los Angeles, California]], is a [[Law school in the United States|law school]] within the [[University of Southern California]]. The oldest law school in the [[Southwestern United States]], USC Law had its beginnings in 1896, and was officially established as a school of the university in 1904.<ref>http://lawweb.usc.edu/who/history/</ref>

==History==
USC Law School had its beginnings in 1896 when Judge David C. Morrison opened his courtroom for 36 law apprentices, among whom were future California Supreme Court Justice [[Frederick W. Houser]] and his wife, Sara Isabella Wilde; the couple would soon form the Los Angeles Law Students Association to discuss the concept of a formal law school.<ref name="weblaw.usc.edu">http://weblaw.usc.edu/who/history/timeline.cfm</ref>  Their efforts resulted in the incorporation of the Los Angeles Law School in 1898.<ref>http://lawweb.usc.edu/who/history/timeline.cfm</ref>  The first law degree was awarded in 1901 to Gavin W. Craig.<ref name="weblaw.usc.edu"/>  Over the next several decades, USC Law rose to become one of the most prominent national law schools, priding itself on an interdisciplinary form of study. 2002 saw the beginning of the USC Law Graduate and International Programs. It is an [[American Bar Association#Accreditation of law schools|American Bar Association]] (ABA) approved law school since 1924.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.americanbar.org/groups/legal_education/resources/aba_approved_law_schools/by_year_approved.html |title=ABA-Approved Law Schools by Year |work=ABA website |accessdate=April 20, 2011}}</ref> It joined the [[Association of American Law Schools]] (AALS) in 1907.<ref>[http://www.aals.org/about_memberschools.php#r-s AALS Member Schools]</ref>

[[Image:USC Law.jpg|right|thumb|270px|USC Law School]]

==Academics==
USC Law awards the [[Juris Doctor|J.D.]], [[Master of Laws|LL.M.]], and [[Master of Comparative Law|M.C.L.]] [[law degree]]s. It currently has about 600 J.D. students (200 per year), and a growing LL.M. program of about 90 students. It offers two certificate programs: business and entertainment law.<ref>[http://weblaw.usc.edu/news/article.cfm?newsID=3630]</ref>

USC Law will also offer a LL.M. in Taxation in Fall 2011.<ref>[http://weblaw.usc.edu/how/gip/tax/]</ref>

===Rankings===
{{see also|Law school rankings in the United States}}
USC Law has consistently been ranked between 15th and 18th by the ''[[U.S. News & World Report]]'' list of "America's Best Graduate Schools" since the magazine has published an annual version of its rankings,<ref>http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/law_librarian_blog/2008/04/where-are-us-ne.html</ref><ref>http://www.law.stanford.edu/publications/projects/lrps/pdf/lomiowayne_rp4.pdf</ref> ranking 18th in 2011.<ref name=USNWR/> "The Law School 100", a ranking scheme that uses qualitative criteria instead of quantitative, ranks the law school 14th overall, tied with [[Duke University School of Law|Duke]], [[UCLA School of Law|UCLA]], and [[Vanderbilt University Law School|Vanderbilt University]].<ref>[http://www.lawschool100.com/ The Law School 100  - The Best Law Schools in the United States Based on Qualitative, Rather Than Quantitative, Criteria]</ref> In addition, USC Law was ranked 14th in the 2008 ''[[National Law Journal]]'' job placement study, with over 43% of its graduating class hired by the [[List of largest U.S. law firms by number of lawyers|NLJ 250]] largest law firms in the United States.<ref>http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1207904889529</ref> It was listed with an "A-" in the March 2011 "Diversity Honor Roll" by ''The National Jurist: The Magazine for Law Students''.<ref name=NationalJurist>{{Citation
   | last1 = Larsen  | first1 = Rebecca
  | title = Most Diverse Law Schools (Diversity Honor Roll)
  | journal = The National Jurist
  | volume = 20
  | issue = 6
  | pages = 30–37
  | publisher = Cypress Magazines
  | location = San Diego, California
  | date = March 2011
  | url = http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/cypress/nationaljurist0311/#/32
}}</ref>

===Academic journals and honors programs===
USC Law hosts three academic journals and offers one additional honors program: ''[[Southern California Law Review]]'', ''Interdisciplinary Law Journal'', ''Southern California Review of Law and Social Justice'' (formerly the ''Review of Law and Women's Studies''), and the ''Hale Moot Court Honors Program''.<ref>[http://lawweb.usc.edu/why/students/honors/ USC Student Journals and Honors Programs]</ref>

Selected law students can participate in one honors program in an academic year.<ref>[http://weblaw.usc.edu/why/students/honors/ USC Student Honors]</ref>

USC Law has a chapter of the [[Order of the Coif]], a national law school honorary society founded for the purposes of encouraging legal scholarship and advancing the ethical standards of the legal profession.<ref>[http://www.orderofthecoif.org/COIF-members.htm Order of the Coif member schools]</ref>

===Clinical programs===
USC maintains six client clinics to provide students real experience with lawyering skills.<ref>http://weblaw.usc.edu/why/academics/</ref>
*Employer Legal Advice Clinic – counseling Los Angeles-area non-profits with employment law issues; assisted small businesses to regenerate after the [[1992 Los Angeles riots]].
*Immigration Clinic – providing pro bono representation to clients in a variety of immigration cases from over 25 different countries
*Intellectual Property and Technology Law Clinic – assisting artists, entrepreneurs, non-profit organizations, and policymakers with intellectual property issues
*Mediation Clinic – providing mediation for small claims and civil harassment cases for the Los Angeles County Superior Court
*Post-Conviction Justice Project – representing clients on civil issues related to incarceration, parole hearings, and constitutional rights
*Small Business Clinic – providing corporate legal assistance to entrepreneurs, non-profit organizations, and small businesses

===Study abroad program===
USC Law offers two international study abroad programs, providing credit to J.D. students. Students may spend a semester abroad at the [[HKU Faculty of Law|University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law]] or pursue a J.D./LL.M dual degree with the [[London School of Economics]].<ref>http://weblaw.usc.edu/how/gip/studyabroad.cfm</ref>

===Dual Degree Programs===
USC Law maintains dual degree programs with the [[USC Marshall School of Business|Marshall School of Business]], the Department of Economics, the [[School of Policy, Planning, and Development|School of Public Administration]], the School of Urban and Regional Planning, the School of Social Work, the [[USC Davis School of Gerontology|Davis School of Gerontology]], the School of Religion, the [[USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism|Annenberg School of Communications]], and the [[University of Southern California School of International Relations|School of International Relations]]. 

Dual degree programs are accelerated - If a Master's degree normally requires one year of study, a student in a dual degree program earns both degrees in only three years. If the Master's degree normally requires two years of post-baccalaureate courses, a total of four years is required.

Qualified students can earn the following degrees in conjunction with their J.D.:
* [[Master of Business Administration|Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.)]]
* [[MRED#Master_of_Real_Estate_Development|Master of Real Estate Development (M.R.E.D.)]]
* [[Master of Science in Taxation|Master of Business Taxation (M.B.T.)]]
* [[Master of Public Administration|Master of Public Administration (M.P.A.)]]
* [[Master of Social Work|Master of Social Work (M.S.W.)]]
* Master of Science in Gerontology (M.S.G.)
* Master of Arts in Communications Management (M.A.)
* Master of Arts in Economics (M.A.)
* Master of Arts in International Relations (M.A.)
* Master of Arts in Philosophy (M.A.)

USC Law also maintains two other dual degree programs. A program administered in conjunction with the [[California Institute of Technology]] enables a student to receive a J.D. from USC and a Ph.D. in social science from Cal Tech. A dual degree program initiated with the USC School of Pharmacy enables a qualified student to earn a J.D. and a [[Doctor of Pharmacy|Pharm.D.]] degree. Students admitted to the J.D./Pharm.D. program must begin their studies in the School of Pharmacy.At the request of individual students, other dual degree programs may be initiated with the concurrence of USC Law and the other departments involved.<ref>[http://lawweb.usc.edu/why/academics/curriculum/dualDegree.cfm USC Law - Dual Degree Programs]</ref>

==Noted people==
===Deans===
# 1904–1927, Frank M. Porter
# 1927–1930, [[Justin Miller (judge)|Justin Miller]]
# 1930–1948, William G. Hale
# 1948–1952, Shelden Elliott
# 1952–1963, Robert Kingsley
# 1963–1968, Orrin B. Evans
# 1968–1980, [[Dorothy Wright Nelson|Dorothy W. Nelson]]
# 1980–2000, Scott H. Bice
# 2000–2006, Matthew L. Spitzer
# 2006–2007, [[Edward McCaffery|Edward J. McCaffery]] (interim)
# 2007–present, [[Robert K. Rasmussen]]

===Faculty===
* [[Jody Armour]]<ref>http://weblaw.usc.edu/who/faculty/directory/contactInfo.cfm?detailID=129</ref> – specializes in race issues; author of ''Negrophobia and Reasonable Racism''
* [[Scott Bice]] – expert on federal courts; former dean of USC law school (1980–2000)
* [[Alexander Capron]]<ref>http://weblaw.usc.edu/who/faculty/directory/contactinfo.cfm?detailid=205</ref> – specializes in law and medicine
* [[Susan Estrich]]<ref>http://weblaw.usc.edu/who/faculty/directory/contactInfo.cfm?detailID=211</ref> – Professor of Law and [[Political Science]]. A [[Fox News]] commentator, Professor Estrich is frequently asked to comment on political interest stories. As an author, most recently, she has published ''The Case for Hillary Clinton'', 2005, and ''Soulless: The Right Wing Church of Hate'', 2006. Estrich is a woman of firsts; she was the first woman to become Editor in Chief of the [[Harvard Law Review]], the youngest woman to receive tenure from [[Harvard Law School]] (before leaving to teach at USC), and the first woman to ever run a Presidential campaign ([[Michael Dukakis|Dukakis]], [[United States presidential election, 1988|1988]]).
* [[Elizabeth Garrett]]<ref>http://weblaw.usc.edu/who/faculty/directory/contactInfo.cfm?detailID=216</ref> – appointed to [[George W. Bush|President Bush]]'s Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform; USC Vice President of Academic Planning and Budget, Professor of Law, Political Science and Public Policy
* [[Carole E. Handler]] – Professor of [[Competition law|antitrust]] and [[intellectual property]] law
* [[Edward Kleinbard]]<ref>http://weblaw.usc.edu/who/faculty/directory/contactInfo.cfm?detailID=68912</ref> – tax expert; former chief of staff of Congress’s Joint Committee on Taxation
* [[George Lefcoe]]<ref>http://weblaw.usc.edu/who/faculty/directory/contactInfo.cfm?detailID=229</ref> – real estate expert; author of the widely used "Real Estate Transactions" textbook
* [[Edward McCaffery]]<ref>http://weblaw.usc.edu/who/faculty/directory/contactInfo.cfm?detailID=237</ref> – tax expert
* [[Matthew McCubbins]]<ref>http://weblaw.usc.edu/who/faculty/directory/contactInfo.cfm?detailID=1432</ref> – specializes in statutory interpretation
* [[Elyn Saks]]<ref>http://weblaw.usc.edu/who/faculty/directory/contactInfo.cfm?detailID=300</ref> – expert on mental health law, author of ''The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness''

====Former faculty====
* [[Erwin Chemerinsky]] – former Sydney M. Irmas Professor of Public Interest Law, Legal Ethics, and Political Science, 1983–2004; former professor at the [[Duke University School of Law]]; founding Dean at the [[University of California, Irvine School of Law]]
* [[Richard Allen Epstein|Richard Epstein]] – well-known for his arguments against anti-[[discrimination]] laws; currently the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the [[University of Chicago Law School]]
* [[James Brown Scott]] – authority on [[international law]], founding dean of USC Law School
* [[Charles Whitebread]] – expert on Criminal Procedure and lecturer for [[BarBri]]; author of ''The Eight Secrets of Top Exam Performance in Law School
* [[Debra Wong Yang]] – trial advocacy expert; the first Asian American woman served as a [[United States Attorney]]''
* [[Jean Rosenbluth]] – former professor of Legal Writing and noted expert on criminal law; currently serving as a Federal Magistrate Judge in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California<ref>http://www.usc.edu/uscnews/newsroom/news_release.php?id=2490</ref>

===Alumni===
====Law====
=====U.S. federal Court of Appeals judges=====
* [[Arthur Lawrence Alarcon]] (1951) – Judge of the [[United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit|U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals]] (1979–1992)
* [[James Marshall Carter]] (1927) – Judge of the [[United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit|U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals]] (1967–1971); Judge of the [[United States District Court for the Southern District of California|U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California]] (1949–1967)
* [[Walter Raleigh Ely, Jr.]] (LL.M. 1949) – Judge of the [[United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit|U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals]] (1964–1979)
* [[Ferdinand Francis Fernandez]] (1962) – Judge of the [[United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit|U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals]] (1989–2002); Judge of the [[United States District Court for the Central District of California|U.S. District Court for the Central District of California]] (1985–1989)
* [[Warren J. Ferguson]] (1949) – Judge of the [[United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit|U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals]] (1979–1986); Judge of the [[United States District Court for the Central District of California|U.S. District Court for the Central District of California]] (1966–1979)
* [[Dorothy Wright Nelson]] (LL.M. 1956) – Judge of the [[United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit|U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals]] (1979–1995)
* [[David R. Thompson]] (1955) – Judge of the [[United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit|U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals]] (1985–1998)
* [[Charles E. Wiggins]] (1956) – Judge of the [[United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit|U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals]] (1984–1996)

=====U.S. federal District Court for the Central District of California judges=====
* [[William Matthew Byrne, Jr.]] (1956) – Judge of the [[United States District Court for the Central District of California|U.S. District Court for the Central District of California]] (1971–1998)
* [[Thurmond Clarke]] (1927) – Judge of the [[United States District Court for the Central District of California|U.S. District Court for the Central District of California]] (1966–1970); Judge of the [[United States District Court for the Southern District of California|U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California]] (1955–1966)
* [[Elisha Avery Crary]] (1929) – Judge of the [[United States District Court for the Central District of California|U.S. District Court for the Central District of California]] (1966–1975); Judge of the [[United States District Court for the Southern District of California|U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California]] (1962–1966)
* [[Richard Arthur Gadbois, Jr.]] (1960) – Judge of the [[United States District Court for the Central District of California|U.S. District Court for the Central District of California]] (1982–1996)
* [[Peirson Mitchell Hall]] – Judge of the [[United States District Court for the Central District of California|U.S. District Court for the Central District of California]] (1966–1968); Judge of the [[United States District Court for the Southern District of California|U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California]] (1942–1966)
* [[James M. Ideman]] (1963) – Judge of the [[United States District Court for the Central District of California|U.S. District Court for the Central District of California]] (1984–1998)
* [[David Vreeland Kenyon]] (1957) – Judge of the [[United States District Court for the Central District of California|U.S. District Court for the Central District of California]] (1980–1995)
* [[George H. King]] (1974) – Judge of the [[United States District Court for the Central District of California|U.S. District Court for the Central District of California]] (1995–present)
* [[Stephen G. Larson]] (1989) – Judge of the [[United States District Court for the Central District of California|U.S. District Court for the Central District of California]] (2006–2009)
* [[Nora Margaret Manella]] (1975) – Judge of the [[United States District Court for the Central District of California|U.S. District Court for the Central District of California]] (1998–2006)
* [[Edward Rafeedie]] (1959) – Judge of the [[United States District Court for the Central District of California|U.S. District Court for the Central District of California]] (1982–1996)
* [[Albert Lee Stephens, Jr.]] (1938) – Judge of the [[United States District Court for the Central District of California|U.S. District Court for the Central District of California]] (1966–1979); Judge of the [[United States District Court for the Southern District of California|U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California]] (1961–1966)
* [[Alicemarie Huber Stotler]] (1967) – Judge of the [[United States District Court for the Central District of California|U.S. District Court for the Central District of California]] (1984–2009)
* [[Robert Mitsuhiro Takasugi]] (1959) – first [[Japanese American]] federal judge; Judge of the [[United States District Court for the Central District of California|U.S. District Court for the Central District of California]] (1976–1996)
* [[Dickran Tevrizian]] (1965) – Judge of the [[United States District Court for the Central District of California|U.S. District Court for the Central District of California]] (1985–2005)
* [[Laughlin Edward Waters, Sr.]] (1947) – Judge of the [[United States District Court for the Central District of California|U.S. District Court for the Central District of California]] (1976–1986)
* [[David W. Williams]] (1937) – first [[African American]] federal judge west of the [[Mississippi River]]; Judge of the [[United States District Court for the Central District of California|U.S. District Court for the Central District of California]] (1969–1981)

=====Other U.S. federal court judges=====
* [[Mary Ann Cohen]] (1967) – Judge of the [[United States Tax Court]] (1982–present)
* [[J. Lawrence Irving]] (1963) – Judge of the [[United States District Court for the Southern District of California|U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California]] (1982–1990)
* [[David W. Ling]] (1913) – Judge of the [[United States District Court for the District of Arizona|U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona]] (1936–1964)
* [[Leland Chris Nielsen]] (1946) – Judge of the [[United States District Court for the Southern District of California|U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California]] (1971–1985)
* [[Howard Boyd Turrentine]] (1939) – Judge of the [[United States District Court for the Southern District of California|U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California]] (1970–1984)
* [[Ronald M. Whyte]] (1967) – Judge of the [[United States District Court for the Northern District of California|U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California]] (1992–2009)

=====California Supreme Court justices=====
* [[David Eagleson]] (1950) – Associate Justice of the [[Supreme Court of California|California Supreme Court]] (1987–1991)
* [[Douglas L. Edmonds]] (1910) – Associate Justice of the [[Supreme Court of California|California Supreme Court]] (1936–1955)
* [[Frederick W. Houser]] (1900) – Associate Justice of the [[Supreme Court of California|California Supreme Court]] (1937–1942)
* [[Marcus Kaufman]] (1956) – Associate Justice of the [[Supreme Court of California|California Supreme Court]] (1987–1990)
* [[Joyce L. Kennard]] (1974) – first [[Asian American|Asian-American]] to serve as an Associate Justice of the [[Supreme Court of California|California Supreme Court]] (1989–present)
* [[Malcolm M. Lucas]] (1953) – 26th [[Chief Justice of California]] (1987–1996); Associate Justice of the [[Supreme Court of California|California Supreme Court]] (1984–1987); Judge of the [[United States District Court for the Central District of California|U.S. District Court for the Central District of California]] (1971–1984)
From 1989–1990, with Eagleson, Kaufman, Kennard, and Lucas were concurrently serving on the California Supreme Court, USC Gould School of Law became the first (and so far only) law school whose alumni constituted a majority of that Court's justices.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://lawweb.usc.edu/who/history/alumniOnBench.cfm|title=Alumni on the Bench|publisher=USC Gould School of Law|accessdate=February 27, 2011}}</ref> All four were appointed by [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] Governor [[George Deukmejian]].

====Business====
* [[C. Bertrand Thompson]] (1900) – First African-American graduate of USC Law School at age 18, later a Unitarian minister, assistant to [[Frederick W. Taylor]] and early scholar of [[scientific management]], lecturer at the [[Harvard Business School]] (1908–1917), international business consultant (awarded the French [[Légion d'honneur]]), and researcher in biochemistry
* [[Louis Galen]] (1951) – former CEO of [[Golden West Financial]], philanthropist
* Frank Rothman (1951) – former chairman and CEO of [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer|MGM]] Studios and noted trial attorney
* [[Sol Price]] (1957) – founder of Fed Mart and [[Price Club]](Costco Wholesale Corp.)
* Walt Zifkin (1961) – CEO Emeritus, [[William Morris Agency]]
* [[James E. Rogers]] (1963) – CEO & owner, [[Sunbelt Communications Company|Sunbelt Communications]]
* [[Richard Ziman]] (1967) – CEO, Arden Realty
* [[Stanley Gold]] (1967) – President and CEO of [[Shamrock Holdings]]
* [[Bruce Karatz]] (1970) – CEO of [[KB Home]]
* Larry Flax (1971) – co-founder of [[California Pizza Kitchen]]
* [[Jeff Smulyan]] (1972) – founder and CEO of [[Emmis Communications]]
* [[Charles Prince]] (1975 – former chairman & CEO of [[Citigroup]]
* Alan Hoffman (1991) – Chief of Staff for Senator [[Joe Biden]]; former Vice President of Timmons and Co.
* [[Richard Rosenblatt]] (1994) – Founder, CEO, Intermix & Demand Media; former Chairman, [[MySpace]]; Founder, former CEO, iMALL

=====Other=====
* [[Arthur Alber]] – Los Angeles, California, City Council member (1927–29
* Litta Belle Hibbens Campbell (1913) – first female deputy district attorney in the United States
* [[Mabel Walker Willebrandt]] (1916) – Assistant [[United States Attorney General|U.S. Attorney General]] (1921–1929
* [[You Chung Hong]] (1898–1977) (1924) – first [[Chinese American]] admitted to practice in California
* [[Gordon Dean]] (1930) – former USC Law School professor; chairman of the [[United States Atomic Energy Commission|US Atomic Energy Commission]] (AEC)
* Edwin Jefferson (1931) – first [[African American]] judge west of [[Chicago]]
* [[Jack Carl Greenburg]] (1933) – former Chief Clerk of the [[California State Assembly]]
* [[William P. Hogoboom]] (1919–2003) (1949) – former California Superior Court judge, author of [[West (publisher)#West products and services|Rutter Group]] California legal practice guides<ref>Myrna Oliver, "William Hogoboom, 84", ''Los Angeles Times'', August 26, 2003</ref><ref>[http://www.metnews.com/articles/hogo082603.htm "Retired Judge William P. Hogoboom Dies", ''Metropolitan News-Enterprise'', August 26, 2003]</ref>
* [[David Getches]] (1967) – Dean and Raphael J. Moses Professor of Natural Resources Law at the [[University of Colorado School of Law]]
* Scott Bice (1968) – Dean of USC Law School from 1980–2000, Supreme Court Clerk for Chief Justice Earl Warren. Board of Directors, Arena Pharmaceuticals.
* [[James P. Gray]] (1971) – presiding judge of the Superior Court of Orange County; former [[Libertarian Party (United States)|Libertarian]] candidate for the U.S. Senate
* [[Stephen Cooley]] (1973) – Los Angeles County's 36th [[District Attorney]]
* [[Douglas Kmiec]] (1976) – [[U.S. Ambassador]]Caruso Family Chair in Constitutional Law at [[Pepperdine University]],fmr. U.S. Assistant Attorney General, [[Office of Legal Counsel]], fmr. Dean and St. Thomas More Professor, [[The Catholic University of America]], fmr. Director of Law & Government Center, [[University of Notre Dame]]
* [[Margaret Radin]] (1976) – influential law professor at [[Stanford Law School]]; former USC Law School professor
* Matthew Spitzer (1977) – Robert C. Packard Trustee Chair in Law and Political Science and visiting professor of Law and Economics at the [[California Institute of Technology]]; Dean of USC Law School from 2000–2006; currently Hayden W. Head Regents Chair for Faculty Excellence and professor of administrative law, regulatory policy, and broadcast regulation at the [[University of Texas School of Law]]
* [[Jacob Stein]] – attorney, authority on the subject of [[asset protection]]
* [[George Hedges]] (1978) – senior partner at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges LLP and attorney to numerous celebrity clients; led team of archaeologists in discovering the lost city of [[Iram of the Pillars|Ubar]] in [[Oman]] in 1991.

====Politics====
* [[Arthur Alber]] – Los Angeles City Council member (1927–29)
* [[Bertrand W. Gearhart]] (1910) – lawyer and former member of the [[United States House of Representatives]]
* [[Fletcher Bowron]] (1911) – former mayor of Los Angeles
* [[J. Curtis Counts]] (1941) – Director of the [[Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (USA)|Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service]].<ref>Thurber, Jon. [http://articles.latimes.com/1999/jul/04/local/me-52895 "J. Curtis Counts; Labor Negotiator Headed Federal Mediation Service"], ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'', July 4 (1999. Accessed July 2, 2009.</ref>
* [[Buron Fitts]] (1916) – former [[Lieutenant Governor of California]]
* [[Thomas Kuchel]] (1935) – former [[United States Senate|United States Senator]]
* [[Craig Hosmer]] (1940) – former United States Representative
* [[Fred Hall]] (1941) – former [[Governor of Kansas]]
* [[James B. Utt]] (1946) – former United States Representative
* [[Carlos Moorhead]] (1949) – former United States Representative
* [[Robert Finch (American politician)|Robert Finch]] (1951) – attorney, former Lieutenant Governor of California, former [[United States Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare]]
* [[Yvonne Brathwaite Burke]] (1956) – [[Los Angeles County]] supervisor, former member of the United States House of Representatives
* [[Michael L. Williams]] (1979) – senior commissioner of the [[Railroad Commission of Texas]]
* [[John Heilman]] (1982) – mayor of [[West Hollywood, California|West Hollywood]]
* [[James Stuart McKnight]] (1908) – Los Angeles City Council member (1931–33)

====Sports and media====
* [[Carey McWilliams (journalist)|Carey McWilliams]] (1927) – author (lawyer (journalist (and editor of ''[[The Nation]]'' for twenty years
* [[Joseph Wapner]] (1948) – Judge of ''[[The People's Court]]'' (former Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge
* [[Terry Baker]] (1968) – played quarterback for the [[Los Angeles Rams]] and the CFL's [[Edmonton Eskimos]] while earning a J.D. at USC
* [[Amy Trask]] (1985<ref>[http://members.calbar.ca.gov/fal/Member/Detail/121589 California State Bar Membership Records) – Amy Trask]</ref>) – CEO of the [[Oakland Raiders]]
* [[Rick Neuheisel]] (1990) – College and professional Football Coach. Current head football coach at UCLA and former UCLA quarterback.

==Notes and references==
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==External links==
*{{Official website|http://law.usc.edu/ USC Gould School of Law}}
*[http://innopac.usc.edu/ USC Law School Library Catalog]
*[http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~idjlaw/ Interdisciplinary Law Journal]
*[http://weblaw.usc.edu/why/students/orgs/rlsj/index.cfm Review of Law and Social Justice]