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Obama to nominate local attorney to State Justice Institute board

By Richard Binder

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The Metropolitan News-Enterprise reports today that President Obama intends to nominate Hernán D. Vera, the president and chief executive officer of Public Counsel, to the Board of Directors of the State Justice Institute.

Prior to joining Public Counsel in 2002, Vera specialized in class actions while with O?Melveny & Myers. He has also worked as an education staff attorney for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund and clerked for U.S. District Court Judge Consuelo B. Marshall of the Central District of California. Vera joined the State Bar in 1994 after graduating from Stanford University and the UCLA School of Law.

Vera is the first Latino leader of the 40-year-old civil rights organization?which is based in Los Angeles and bills itself as the nation?s largest pro bono public interest law firm?and formerly served as a commercial litigator with international law firm O?Melveny & Myers.

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Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on January 21, 2010 (boomark / email).

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