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About USC Gould
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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Eugene Holmes
USC Gould School of Law
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Lecturer in Law
699 Exposition Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90089-0074 USA
Last Updated: November 13, 2020
Eugene M. Holmes is assistant general counsel of corporate legal at The Walt Disney Company in Burbank, California. He is a member of the Labor and Employment Group Center of Excellence where he advises and counsels internal clients on all incentive compensation, benefits and ERISA matters as well as a broad range of employment issues, including terminations, leave laws and policies, pay practices and contingent workforce analysis. He also counsels on ERISA and employment matters related to company transactions, including due diligence and integration. Holmes was previously senior counsel at Proskauer LLP in the employee benefits practice and prior to that he was a partner at McDermott Will & Emery.
Holmes has served in a number of capacities within the American Bar Association, including budget officer, chair of the membership committee and vice-chair of an interest group in the health law section and chair of the ABA Joint Committee on Employee Benefits. He has past involvement with state bar activities as a former vice-chair of the employee benefits committee for the D.C. bar and a member of the member benefits committee for the Georgia bar. He also established the Emanuel Hewlett 1877 Award Fund at Boston University School of Law to provide annual awards to students who are active in the Black Law Students Association. Holmes recently participated in the Homeless Youth Handbook Pro Bono Project by editing a chapter of the handbook related to health benefits.
Holmes earned his JD from Boston University School of Law; and an LLM, from Georgetown University Law Center. He is admitted to the Michigan; Washington, D.C.; Massachusetts; Georgia; and California bars.
FACULTY IN THE NEWS
Politi Fact
May 23, 2023
Re: David B. Cruz
Professor David Cruz was recently interviewed about a controversial bill that was passed in Connecticut. "Paying even modest attention to the bill’s definitions should make it clear beyond doubt that it will not be the source of protections based upon the age of people to whom one is attracted or with whom one has sex," Cruz said.
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Robin Craig
April, 2023
"Fish, Whales, and a Blue Ethics for the Anthropocene: How Do We Think About the Last Wild Food in the Twenty-First Century?," 95:6 Southern California Law Review 1307-1343 (April 2023).
Robin Craig
April, 2023
"California Exceptionalism in the Colorado River: A Brief History and Implications for the Future."
Robin Craig
April, 2023
"Toward a Global Sustainable Development Agenda Built on Resilience" (with Murray W. Scown, Craig R. Allen, Lance Gunderson, David G. Angeler, Jorge H. Garcia, & Ahjond Garmestani), Global Sustainability (online publication April 2023).
