Health. Women. Trust December 7, 2011

Nationally renowned criminal legal scholar and commentator Laurie Levenson will deliver a keynote speech to help raise funds for Planned Parenthood of Orange and San Bernardino Counties as she discusses “Misplaced Trust: Are the Courts Protecting Women’s Health?”

Ms. Levenson is Professor of Law and the David W. Burcham Chair in Ethical Advocacy at Loyola Law School where she teaches criminal law, criminal procedure, ethics, anti-terrorism, and evidence. While a federal prosecutor, Ms. Levenson tried a wide variety of federal criminal cases, including violent narcotics offenses, white collar crimes, and immigration and public corruption cases.

Ms. Levenson has provided legal commentary on several high profiles cases, including President Clinton's impeachment trial, the Enron prosecutions, the prosecution of Martha Stewart, the Rodney King beating trial, the Menendez
Brothers murder trials, the O.J. Simpson and Scott Peterson murder trials, and the Michael Jackson child molestation trial. Ms. Levenson has been quoted in more than 10,000 newspaper articles and has appeared on national and international television. She has worked as an expert legal consultant for CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN and NPR.