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Southwestern professor's daughter abducted near school, found murdered

By Richard Binder

The recent abduction and murder of a 17-year-old girl, the daughter of a partner at Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck who had just finished a summer course as an adjunct professor at Southwestern University School of Law, has sent shockwaves through the school.

Deborah Drooz's daughter, Lily Burk had just picked up some paperwork at the Southwestern law school's building for her mother when she was abducted on Friday afternoon, according to recent press reports. During the next hour, Burk called her parents, asking how to withdraw cash from an ATM using her credit card. Her beaten body was discovered in her car Saturday morning at a downtown parking lot. A 50-year-old transient, Charles Samuel, who had entered a drug treatment program near the law school's campus, has been arrested for her murder.

Drooz, an adjunct professor at Southwestern since 2001, had just finished finals last week for a summer course she was teaching called "Defamation, Privacy and Publicity," according to Leslie Steinberg, assistant dean of public affairs at the law school.  About two dozen students from the class hosted a candlelight vigil on July 27 for Lily.

Full story at NLJ.com.

Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on July 28, 2009 (boomark / email).