Expert No. 42095 – CA(S)
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Expertise Description: Ph.D. - Experienced in issues related to school safety, personal injury, truancy, juvenile violence and homicide, street gangs, and troubled youth.
Areas of Expertise:
| Campus Safety | Gangs | School Administration |
| Child Abuse | Juvenile Justice System | School Safety |
| Education | Personal Injury |
Representative Litigation Experience:
- sexual assault and battery, negligent hiring / retention, negligent supervision / failure to warn
- gang assault and battery
- assault by Staffperson on Student
- battery and rape, failure to execute mandated report duties
- sexual assault and sex with minors; sexual grooming / conditioning; dereliction of duty; failure of mandated reporters to report
- teacher's use of obscene, lewd and lascivious adult-level book in class 5th grade class
- assault and personal injury / gang-related
- gang homicide
- special education environment wrongful death
- teacher's unlawful sex with minor
- civil rights / equality in education
- administrator assault on student and personal injury
- middle school student suicide
- juvenile homicide / gang & drug event
- assault and traumatic personal injury at high school
- child molestation
- sexual assault on campus
- street terrorism; injunction to report
- gang-related shooting / attempted murder
- robbery & assault with deadly weapon / gang allegation
- gang enhancement allegation
Representative Consulting Services and/or Projects:
- Professor of Mental Health Law, Forensic Psychology, Lifespan Development, and Social Bases of Behavior at the a School of Professional Psychology
- Director of Child Welfare and Attendance for a school program
- Conducted research and taught at the MacLaren's Children Center for abused, neglected and abandoned children
- Consultant - Trainer on "Child Abuse Mandated Reporting Requirements"; conducted training within 81 school districts with training materials provided by the California Attorney General
- Conducted research and interviews of children incarcerated in California state youth prisons whose backgrounds included being victims of child abuse
- Taught law course, Administration of Justice Juvenile Delinquency and Legal Procedures
- Conducts accredited-for-continuing-legal-education seminars for lawyers
Licenses & Certifications:
| Mandatory Certified Legal Education (MCLE) Trainer |
Education:
| Degree | Subject | Institution | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ph.D. | Curriculum | Claremont Graduate University | |
| B.A. | California State University at Los Angeles |
Professional Appointment/Association Affiliations:
- Los Angeles County Interagency Council Against Child Abuse and Neglect (I.C.A.N.)
- California State Sheriff's Education Association
- The American Society of Trial Consultants
- California Attorneys for Criminal Justice
- National Lawyers Guild
- Association of California School Administrators (ACSA)
- The California Teachers Association
- American Society of Trial Consultants
- The California Attorneys for Criminal Justice
- American Bar Association (Association Member)
- "Gangs Out of Downey" Organization
- Multi-Agency Task Force on Gangs
Awards & Honors:
| Certificate of Recognition from the California State Legislature |
| Letter of gratitude and congratulations from President George W. Bush |
| The Neil Matsumora Scholarship, University of Southern California |
| "Best (Doctoral) Dissertation of the Year" Award |
Other Career Highlights:
| Keynote Speaker at the National Schools Response Conference (NSRC, Washington, D.C.) |
| Article, "Loco Parentis Litigation: The Hot Stock Du Jour." |
| Author, "Homicidally-at-risk Adolescent Profile" |
