Sonia L. Yagura

Sonia L. Yagura Associate Clinical Professor of Law

Associate Clinical Professor of Law

Courses Taught

  • Law & Process: Privacy Torts
  • Legal Methods I: Legal Writing and Analysis

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Education

  • BA, Cornell University
  • JD, University of California College of the Law, San Francisco

Background

Sonia Lee Yagura is an Associate Clinical Professor of Law who also serves as an Academic Success Program (ASP) Advisor. She currently teaches Law & Process: Privacy Torts. She previously served as an Adjunct Professor at Loyola Law School, teaching Legal Methods I: Legal Writing and Analysis for the Master of Science in Legal Studies (MLS) program and as a Writing Specialist.

Upon graduation, Professor Yagura practiced general civil commercial litigation as an associate at O’Melveny & Myers LLP.  She transitioned into teaching as a Supervising Attorney and then Acting Director of USC Gould School of Law’s Domestic Violence Clinic. After a hiatus to raise her children, she returned to teaching at Southwestern Law School as an Adjunct Professor where she taught Refining Your Legal Writing and co-taught Law Review: Staff classes.