Elisabeth Semel Inspires College Student Melinda Haag to Study Law

The Daily Journal, May 12, 2010
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When Hagg was a senior in college in the early 1980s, she worked as an assistant for a criminal defense attorney in San Diego. She brought him lunch and made copies but also happened to see a young female defense attorney representing a co-defendant in one of her boss’s murder cases. That attorney, Elisabeth A. Semel, now heads the Death Penalty Clinic at UC Berkeley School of Law. Haag said Semel inspired her to go to law school.