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Education
Law School/Year: J.D., Duke University School of Law, cum laude, 2006
Other Graduate School/Year: M.A., English Literature, Tulane University, 2003
College/Year: B.A., Speech Communication, University of Southern Mississippi, summa cum laude, 2001
Professional Background
Natalie Prescott is a judicial law clerk with the Honorable Roger T. Benitez in the U.S. District Court, Southern District of California in San Diego. She drafts judicial opinions, confers with the judge regarding proposed rulings, and observes trials and motion hearings. Previously, Prescott was an associate with DLA Piper US LLP in San Diego, where she worked in the areas of product liability, securities litigation and employment law.
She has been a speaker at a number of law conferences, including the Yale Journal of International Law Annual Young Scholars Conference and the Campbell Law Review Symposium on Employment & Immigration Law. Honors include the Cambridge Who's Who Among Executive and Professional Women for 2007-2008; Outstanding Achievement in Dispute Resolution from Duke Law in 2006; and the Award for Exceptional Pro Bono Commitment from the North Carolina Bar Association in 2006.
Prescott is also a Ninth Circuit attorney volunteer, as well as a volunteer for Meals on Wheels, with more than 500 hours of pro bono work completed in 2007.
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They work for large, national firms, specialized boutiques and the court system. Many are associates and some have even made partner. A few, amazingly, have opened offices on their own already. They are some of the brightest up-and-coming players in the San Diego legal community, and they are being recognized with The Daily Transcript's inaugural Young Attorneys honor.
As solo practitioners and small firm settings continue to be one of the fastest growing practice styles in the legal profession, it is not surprising that many of San Diego's top attorneys don't work for a big law firm.
Shaun Khojayan, a criminal defense attorney with offices in San Diego and Beverly Hills, sought a young associate by posting on University of San Diego's alumni bulletin board. As the head of one of San Diego's small law firms, he had specific qualities in mind.
Whether you're a legal administrator at a mid-size boutique or a mega-firm with overseas offices, time management is a perennially important issue. Given the diverse assortment of duties you perform on a daily basis, it's critical that you have an effective time management strategy in place.
The University of San Diego School of Law recently announced its appointment of the Hon. David Laro as director of the esteemed graduate tax program effective in 2008. The school's tax law faculty was ranked 10th in the nation by U.S. News & World Report in its 2008 list of America's Best Graduate Schools.
A law degree isn't necessarily a license to print money these days.
In the lucrative world of patents, the University of California is a major player. It receives by far more patents from the U.S. government than any school in the country. And by licensing out its intellectual property, the university has generated about $500 million in revenue in the past five years.
As analytics becomes more advanced and more widely used by businesses, privacy issues are a growing concern, and some experts say the laws haven’t yet caught up to the technology.
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