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    • December 09, 2025
    • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
    • Online (Zoom)
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    AI for the Reluctant Lawyer:
    No Code, No Jargon, No Panic

    Presented by:
    Jillian Duggan-Herd, Esq.

    Tuesday, December 9, 2025
    12:00 PM - 1:00 PM 
    Online via Zoom

    Members: $20
    Student Members: $15
    Non-Members: $40


    • December 12, 2025
    • 6:30 PM - 10:00 PM
    • Shoo Shoo Baby - 717 W 7th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90017
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    Slip into your coziest holiday sweater and meet us at
    Shoo Shoo Baby for our annual Holiday Benefit Mixer! 

    Friday, December 12, 2025
    6:30 PM - 10:00 PM
    Shoo Shoo Baby
    717 W 7th Street
    Los Angeles, CA 90017

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    • December 13, 2025
    • 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
    • LA Food Bank, 1734 E. 41st Street, Los Angeles, CA 90058


    Volunteers from Los Angeles Paralegal Association will provide support in the Los Angeles Food Bank.

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    • December 16, 2025
    • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
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    Tribal Criminal Law

    Presented by:

    Mark A. Vezzola

    Deputy General Counsel

    Pechanga Band of Indians

    Tuesday, December 16, 2025
    12:00 PM - 1:00 PM 
    Online via Zoom

    Members: $20
    Student Members: $15
    Non-Members: $40


    Mark Vezzola is the Deputy General Counsel for the Pechanga Band of Indians, a sovereign tribal nation, located in Temecula, California. His responsibilities include representing and advising various tribal entities, including the tribe’s court, school board, social services agency, and Pechanga Resort Casino, developing and updating ordinances, policies, and procedures, and advocating for the tribe’s interests in matters in state and tribal court. Previously, Mark served as a directing attorney at California Indian Legal Services, chief judge for the Pala Band of Mission Indians, chief judge for the Chemehuevi Indian Tribe, adjunct professor of American Indian Studies at Palomar College, and adjunct professor of American history at San Diego Mesa College. Mark previously served as a board member for the California Indian Law Association and on the San Diego County Bar Association’s Client Relations Committee. Mark graduated from UMass- Amherst with a B.A. in history, a minor in Anthropology, and certificates in Native American Studies and International Relations, and UCLA with a J.D. and M.A. in American Indian Studies. During law school, Mark clerked for the Hopi Appellate Court, interned at the Office of Tribal Justice at the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington DC, participated in research for Carole Goldberg’s 2007 final report on Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice under Public Law 280, and assisted with editing the 2005 edition of Felix Cohen’s Handbook of Federal Indian Law.

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