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Law Practice

Jan. 19, 2013

California lawyer's project will provide lawyers to rape victims in India

Jonathan D. Derby is launching Counsel to Secure Justice in New Delhi to offer pro bono legal assistance to victims of violent rape.


By Don J. DeBenedictis


Daily Journal Staff Writer


Horrific incidents of rape in India over the last few weeks sparked riots in that country and demands for change from around the world. Yet even as the international outcry was erupting, a young lawyer from Southern California had been months in New Delhi trying to help. Jonathan D. Derby, a Pepperdine University School of Law graduate from Seal Beach, has been working since last spring to launch a legal...

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