Sometimes it takes an aggressive legal strategy to ignite social change that seems blocked by the political process. That’s something Gibson Dunn & Crutcher partners Theodore Boutrous and Marcellus McRae know a thing or two about.
Funded by a wealthy Silicon Valley entrepreneur, Boutrous and McRae took on the teachers’ union and secured a landmark ruling striking down five California teacher tenure laws on equal-protection grounds. During the two-month bench trial in Los Angeles Superior Court, the lawyers put on evidence that the provisions damn children, especially poor and minority students, to substandard educations.
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