Professor Baker: "heroic lawyers representing heroic veterans"
This semester in Pepperdine's clinical education program, we launched the Veterans Law Practicum, a pilot program with the Ventura County Public Defender. In the practicum, students apply for structured placements with the PD to work in Veterans Treatment Court. The Vet Court is part of the Collaborative Justice Court Program by the Ventura County Superior Court. Through the Vet Court, veterans or former members of the military service, regardless of their discharge status, can access alternative sentencing and diversionary programs when they can establish a nexus between their military service and disability with the crimes for which they are charged....
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....To these clients we owe our greatest public trust for sending them into harm's way for the sake of our nation. We are proud and honored to work beside these heroic lawyers representing our heroic veterans.
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