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USC Gould is a top-ranked law school with a 120-year history and reputation for academic excellence. We are located on the beautiful 228-acre USC University Park Campus, just south of downtown Los Angeles.
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We work closely with students, graduates and employers to support successful career goals and outcomes. Our overall placement rate is consistently strong, with 94 percent of our JD class employed within 10 months after graduation.
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Our faculty is distinguished for its scholarship, as well as for its commitment to teaching. Our 12:1 student-to-faculty ratio creates an intimate and collegial learning environment.
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The global Trojan network of more than 10,000 law alumni and donors include recognized leaders in numerous fields who are deeply committed to supporting student and law school success.
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James Arnone
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Lecturer in Law
Email: jarnone@law.usc.eduTelephone: (213) 740-2547
Direct Line: 213-485-1234
Fax: (213) 891-8763
699 Exposition Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90089-0074 USA
Last Updated: December 29, 2018
Jim Arnone is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Latham & Watkins LLP and is the global chair of the Environment, Land & Resources Department. He previously served as the deputy managing partner of the Los Angeles office and as the global co-chair of the Environmental Litigation Practice Group.
Arnone’s practice encompasses a wide range of project development work and litigation and has included extensive state court writ of mandamus and similar litigation since he started practicing law 28 years ago.
Arnone is a lecturer in law at the USC Gould School of Law, where he has taught Environmental Law for more than 20 years. In addition, he is a frequent author and lecturer on environmental, climate change and real estate law. He co-authored a global climate change chapter in an ABA-published Environmental Litigation book, co-edited the Water Quality section of the California Municipal Law Handbook, and authored many articles and client alerts on new developments in land use and environmental law. He has co-chaired a day-long CEQA symposium annually since 2005, convening highly distinguished faculties from government, consulting firms and the legal community.
Arnone is also a member of the California Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors, where he serves as chair of its Environmental Policy Committee. His community activities include having served as chair of the Ketchum-Downtown YMCA’s Board of Managers, chair of AIDS Project Los Angeles’ Board of Directors, board treasurer of the West Hollywood Library Foundation and a member of the Western Center on Law and Poverty’s Board of Directors.
Arnone earned his JD from Harvard Law School and graduated with a BA from the University of California, Los Angeles.
FACULTY IN THE NEWS
San Francisco Chronicle
April 14, 2021
Re: Jean Lantz Reisz
Jean Reisz was interviewed about the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco's rejection of an earlier U.S. Board of Immigration Appeals decision that denied asylum to Salvadoran sisters who were harassed by a gang. “Their journey to asylum has been difficult and longer than it should have been,” she said. The judge and the board “ignored the evidence and denied lifesaving relief to the twins based on unlawful conclusions” that the court has now overturned. The article also appeared in Microsoft News.
RECENT SCHOLARSHIP
Michael Simkovic
February, 2021
"Income Taxes and Work Hours," University of Virginia Law and Economics Workshop, University of Virginia Law School, Charlottesville, VA.
Dorothy S. Lund
February, 2021
“The Corporate Governance Machine” (with Elizabeth Pollman), 122 Columbia Law Review (forthcoming 2022)
Michael Simkovic
February, 2021
“Income Taxes & Work Hours,” Florida Tax Review.