1/20 “Women in the Law” Panel @ 6 p.m. in Burns Student Lounge

The South Asian Bar Association of Southern California (SABA-SC) will be holding a “Women in the Law” panel discussion. This event is co-hosted by the South Asian Law Student Association (SALSA) and Women’s Law Association (WLA).

What: “Women in the Law” panel discussion
When: Thursday, January 20, 2011 @ 6 p.m.
Where: Burns Student Lounge

Light refreshments will be served! Come check it out! The panel will consist of practitioners from the Southern California Asian-American community and will address a number of issues.  A short question and answer session will follow the panel.

The panel will feature:

Jojo Liu – Ms. Liu is a clinical professor in Loyola Law School’s Center for Juvenile Law and Policy. Prior to joining Loyola, Ms. Liu was a litigation associate at Morrison & Foerster, where she had a broad commercial litigation, white-collar defense and compliance counseling practice.  Previous to that, she was a Skadden Fellow at Legal Services for Children, representing indigent, disabled school children in suits against the New York City Board of Education.  Ms. Liu obtained her AB from Havard College and her JD from Columbia Law School.

Debra Ibrahim Barsom – Ms. Barsom is an associate at Jackson Lewis. Ms. Barsom exclusively represents and advises employers in labor and employment matters.  Ms. Barsom focuses her practice in the area of employment litigation on behalf of management, including actions involving sexual harassment, discrimination on the basis of sex, age, race, religion and disability, and wrongful termination.  Ms. Barsom has experience with wage and hour class action lawsuits.  She also advises management on various issues ranging from wage and hour laws, harassment and discrimination, managing leaves of absence under FMLA and state laws, and traditional labor law issues.  Ms. Barsom obtained her BA from UCLA and her JD from Boston University.

Asha Saund Greenberg: Ms. Greenberg is an Assistant City Attorney with the City of Los Angeles.  She currently manages the Citywide Nuisance Abatement Program which focuses on abating properties that are plagued with gang, drug and other types of nuisance activity.  Asha spearheads the Los Angeles City Attorney’s enforcement against medical marijuana dispensaries and has secured Superior Court rulings that sales of marijuana are not allowed under the Compassionate Use Act or the Medical Marijuana Program Act. Under her direction, the City Attorney’s Office has obtained the evictions of several dispensaries.   She graduated magna cum laude from Whittier College, School of Law as class valedictorian and also served as a Research Editor on the Law Review.

Neha Mehta – Neha Mehta graduated from Loyola Law School in 2006. During law school, she participated in the Juvenile Justice Clinic where she was certified by the California bar to defend minors in delinquency proceedings. After law school, Neha received her LL.M. in Trial Advocacy in Federal Criminal Defense from California Western School of Law.  In 2007, Neha became a member of the Criminal Justice Act Panel for the Central District of California as associate counsel. As a member of panel she served as co-counsel on the high-profile Aryan Brotherhood capital case and as well as other matters in federal court. Neha also worked on cases in state court, juvenile delinquency court and children’s dependency court. Neha has been at the Office of the Federal Public Defender for the last two years representing indigent defendants accused of a wide variety of federal crimes ranging from bank robberies, major drug crimes to importing wildlife.