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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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USC Gould helps prepare you for a stellar legal career. You can pursue a JD degree, one of our numerous graduate and international offerings, or an online degree or certificate.
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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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Joseph Paller Jr.
USC Gould School of Law
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Last Updated: June 26, 2018
Joseph L. Paller, Jr. is a principal of Gilbert & Sackman. He represents labor unions, employee benefit plans, and plaintiffs in class action litigation. The Daily Journal has ranked Paller as one of the top 75 employment attorneys in California. He was ranked as the “2017 Lawyer of the Year” in the greater Los Angeles area in the field of Labor Law - Union. Paller is one of a handful of lawyers in North America who has been elected as both a Fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers and a Fellow of the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel in recognition of his contributions to those fields of specialization. He has been recognized as a Southern California Super Lawyer for 15 consecutive years, as well as by Best Lawyers in America, and many similar organizations. Paller is chair of the Personnel Commission of the Los Angeles Unified School District, which provides civil service protections for 38,000 classified employees in the nation’s second largest school district. He has served on the Commission since 2001. He was honored as the 2017 Distinguished Personnel Commissioner by the California School Personnel Commissioners Association. Since 1995, Paller has served as an employment dispute arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association. He is a former member of the Board of Directors of the AFL-CIO Lawyers Coordinating Committee in Washington, D.C. He served as chair of the Labor and Employment Law Section of the Los Angeles County Bar Association from 1993 to 1994, and has been a member of the Section's Executive Committee since 1987.
Paller has been admitted to practice law in California, Nevada, New York and Pennsylvania. He is a graduate of the UCLA School of Law. He teaches Labor Arbitration.
FACULTY IN THE NEWS
NPR
January 4, 2022
Re: Franita Tolson
Franita Tolson was interviewed about where election-denying candidates are running to control voting. "The reasons why Trump's attempt to overturn the 2020 election failed is because there were state officials who refused to substantiate his claims of fraud," she said.
RECENT SCHOLARSHIP
Robin Craig
October, 2021
Robin Craig participated on a virtual panel discussion on “Key Recent Environmental Law Developments in the U.S. Supreme Court, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and California Supreme Court,” California Lawyers Association Environmental Law Section, 30th Annual Environmental Law Conference at Yosemite. Yosemite National Park, CA.
Robin Craig
October, 2021
“Climate Change Adaptation in the United States.” Integrated Marine Biosphere Research. IMBIZO 6: Marine Biosphere Research: Buoyant Solutions for Ocean Sustainability, United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development activity. Virtual presentation.
Robin Craig
October, 2021
“In term-opener, justices will hear Mississippi’s complaint that Tennessee is stealing its groundwater,” SCOTUSblog, October 1. 2021.
