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Criminal

Dec. 28, 2017

From law school to associate, lawyer worked to win client’s parole

As a law student, Laura Donaldson took on the case of a 40-year-old man who was sentenced to life for his part in a murder as a minor.

From law school to associate, lawyer worked to win client’s parole
Laura Donaldson of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP

Three years after her graduation, Laura Donaldson, now an associate at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, is still working on a project she began in law school. With any luck, it will have the governor's signature by February.

As a student, Donaldson was part of the Post-Conviction Justice Project Clinic at USC Gould School of Law, overseen by professor Heidi Rummel. At the clinic, Donaldson took on the case of Ellis C. Cur...

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