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Seth Packrone
Seth Packrone (he/him) is an assistant professor at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law. Seth teaches and writes about issues in the areas of disability law, education law, impact litigation, and civil procedure. Seth’s published work has appeared in the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, and he has presented on disability-related issues across the country.
Before joining DU, Seth litigated systemic and class-action lawsuits on behalf of young people with disabilities as a Senior Attorney with the Legal Advocacy Team at the National Center for Youth Law. Seth has also litigated systemic lawsuits as a Staff Attorney with the Impact Litigation Practice at The Bronx Defenders and Disability Rights Advocates. In 2021, Seth co-taught the Disability and Civil Rights Clinic as an Adjunct Clinical Professor at Brooklyn Law School.
Seth received a J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School, a B.A. magna cum laude from Harvard College, and an M. Phil in Perspectives on Inclusive and Special Education from the University of Cambridge as a Harvard-Cambridge Scholar. Prior to law school, Seth taught English in Malatya, Turkey as a Fulbright grantee.
Cynthia L. Rice
Cynthia L. Rice (she/her) was born and raised in Colorado where most of her immediate family still lives She received her B.A. from the University of Colorado in 1976 and moved to California to attend law school at Santa Clara University School of Law, where she received her J.D. in 1979. She was admitted to the California Bar in 1979 and to the Hawaii Bar in 1995.
Ms. Rice has specialized in Labor and Employment rights and Education Advocacy in private practice and as a legal aid attorney for Community Legal Services (now Legal Services of Santa Clara County) Marin County Legal Aid and CRLA. Most recently she served as a Director of Litigation, Advocacy and Training for California Rural Legal Assistance (CRLA) and a part-time project director for the California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation Labor and Civil Rights Litigation Project.
Rice has represented hundreds of workers in administrative and court proceedings involving labor and employment rights. Her work in education focuses on advocacy on behalf of English Learners, Migrant students and students of color, and has resulted in landmark settlements compelling school districts to affirmatively address discriminatory discipline policies. Additionally, she has successfully litigated cases against a variety of state agencies, including the California Department of Education, California’s Unemployment Insurance agencies: the California Employment Development Department and the California Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board, and the California Labor Commissioner.
She has appeared before the California Supreme Court on behalf of claimants before the Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board and the Labor Commissioner. She has testified before various legislative committees and administrative boards, and provided technical assistance to lobbyists and legislators on a variety of education, civil rights and labor bills including California’s Labor Law Private Attorney General Act (PAGA), and SB 1818 which provided protections for immigrants under Labor Code § 1171.5 and related sections.
Rice has been actively involved in developing litigation strategies under state and federal laws for the enforcement of education, labor and employment and civil rights for California low wage families since 1979.
Stuart Seaborn
Stuart Seaborn is a litigation consultant with Youth Law Center. He came to YLC after more than 25 years of practicing public interest law. Most of Stuart’s work has involved systemic civil rights litigation on behalf of groups of people with disabilities. He has secured national precedents in the areas of voting rights, access to transportation, and access to public facilities, among several others. Stuart was most recently the Managing Director for Litigation at Disability Rights Advocates, a national, non-profit disability rights law firm. He has also worked as a solo civil rights litigator and started his legal career as a trial attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice. Stuart has taught disability law as an adjunct professor at UC Law SF and UC Davis King Hall School of Law.
He received his law degree from UCLA in 1998 and his BA from UC Berkeley in 1995.
Stuart is a member of the California Bar.
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