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What motivates lawyers to defend mass murderers?

Money, religious views, professional prestige and the challenge of a difficult case are some of the reasons why attorneys take on such clients as Unabomber Ted Kaczynski; Buford Furrow, who opened fire in a Jewish community center in Granada Hills; Eric Rudolph, who planted a bomb in Atlanta during the 1996 Summer Olympics; and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the Boston Marathon bomber, according to Jon B. Gould, dean of the School of Social Ecology and co-author of “Capital Defense: Inside the Lives of America’s Death Penalty Lawyers.”

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OC Business Journal lauds 4 Anteaters

For its recent list of 50 people shaping the future of healthcare in Orange County, the Orange County Business Journal highlighted four Anteaters:

Bernadette Boden-Albala. Tapped in 2019 to head the launch of a new public health school, she also oversaw research efforts during the pandemic.

Maritza Salazar Campo. Part of a team at the Paul Merage School of Business that launched a chief medical officer program to equip senior physician leaders with the skills to take on a C-suite role at hospitals and other healthcare organizations.

Joshua Grill, director of UCI MIND, Orange County’s only state and federally funded Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, funded through the National Institute on Aging.

Chad Lefteris, CEO, UCI Health. Runs OC’s only academic medical center and all clinical and patient-serving operations.

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