(Subscription required) Tolson will begin the position Monday, April 1, as the Carl Mason Franklin chair in law. She is the first African American dean at USC Gould and only the second female dean in the school’s 123-year history. Tolson has been at USC Law since 2017, serving for the last year as interim dean, and she also holds a courtesy faculty appointment in the political science and international relations department at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.

While on a retirement trek to the Himalayas in 1987, Sausalito attorney Olga Murray slipped on some mud, broke her leg, and had to be carried by sherpas in a shoulder basket for eight days to reach the hospital. That ordeal changed her life, though it had nothing to do with a broken leg. 

At the Supreme Court’s conference yesterday, there were no straight grants, but there were some actions of note, including Racial Justice Act.

A State Bar Court judge yesterday issued a 128-page decision recommending that John Eastman, one of former President Trump’s lawyers, be disbarred for “transgress[ing] . . . ethical limits by advocating, participating in and pursuing a strategy to challenge the results of the 2020 presidential election that lacked evidentiary or legal support.”