Valerie A. Fontaine earned her JD from UC Law San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings) and her BA, Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude, from UCLA. She was on the Editorial Board of COMM/ENT, a Journal of Communications and Entertainment Law. Valerie practiced law with a prominent Los Angeles law firm and entered the legal search profession in 1981. Valerie is past Secretary to the Board of Directors of the National Association of Legal Search Consultants (NALSC) and former Chair of its Newsletter Committee. She currently serves as a consultant to NALSC headquarters.
California doesn’t make it easy. If you’re planning to be admitted to practice law in another state or relocate your legal career, the choice between a Uniform Bar Examination (UBE) jurisdiction and California is a major one. While the UBE makes attorney mobility easier across most of the U.S., California remains a unique and challenging…
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