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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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Jibit Cinar
USC Gould School of Law
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Lecturer in Law
699 Exposition Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90089-0074 USA
Last Updated: January 22, 2022
Jibit Cinar is a partner at Gokal Law Group, Inc., where she heads up the employment litigation practice area. Cinar was a solo practitioner for over 10 years prior to joining the Gokal team.
Cinar specializes in litigation and counseling related to employment and labor law. She helps employees whose rights have been violated in the workplace and who have suffered wrongful termination, retaliation, discrimination, harassment, or wage and hour violations during employment. She represents clients in any forum, including state and federal court, in binding arbitration and administrative hearings.
Cinar earned her JD at Loyola Law School, where she graduated in 2003. Prior to law school, Cinar earned her BA from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Cinar is a lecturer in law at the USC Gould School of Law, teaching Employment Discrimination Law. She speaks and writes often on important employment topics. She is an active member of the legal community and is a member of the National Association of Woman Business Owners, as well as Orange County Bar Association’s Labor & Employment and Solo/Small Firm sections. She also has served on the California State Bar’s Solo & Small Firm Executive Committee.
FACULTY IN THE NEWS
NBC Los Angeles
January 18, 2022
Re: Jody David Armour
Jody Armour was interviewed about Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream. "Dr. King wasn't just fighting for a colorblind America, he was fighting for a just America."
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D. Daniel Sokol
November, 2021
D. Daniel Sokol posted an Op-ed to the National Post titled “Competition law reforms not needed to meet the challenges of Big Tech,” November 17, 2021.
Robin Craig
November, 2021
"Environmental Law, Disrupted by COVID-19" (with Rebecca Bratspies, Vanessa Casado Perez, Lissa Griffin, Keith Hirokawa, Sarah Krakoff, Katrina Kuh, Jessica Owley, Melissa Powers, Shannon Roesler, Jonathan Rosenbloom, J.B. Ruhl, Erin Ryan, & David Takacs). In Environmental Law, Disrupted, edited by K. Hirokawa & J. Owley. Washington, D.C.: Environmental Law Institute, 2021.
Robert K. Rasmussen
November, 2021
“COVID-19 Debt and Bankruptcy Infrastructure,” Yale Law Journal Forum 131 (2021): 337.
