Email DavidDavid Michael Morfin has been an instructor in Platt College’s Paralegal Studies department since January 2007.
Mr. Morfin received his Juris Doctor degree in Law from The George Washington University Law School, in Washington, D.C. While at GW Law, Mr. Morfin completed the Pro Bono Honors Program, which required him to volunteer his time to various pro bono (free) legal programs throughout Washington, D.C. and Virginia.
Prior to graduating from law school, Mr. Morfin received an Associate of Arts degree with Honors in English from Cerritos College, where he was accepted into Phi Theta Kappa and served as Vice President of Youth Excel. He continued his education atUCLA, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree with Honors in Political Science. While at UCLA, he was placed on the National Dean’s List two times, served as Editor of the Westwind Undergraduate Research Journal, won numerous Provost and Vice-Provost awards, was accepted into the Golden Key Honor Society recognizing the top 15% of students, admitted into Pi Sigma Alpha, the National Political Science Honor Society, and graduated from the College Honors Program, the highest academic distinction of UCLA’s College of Letters and Sciences.
Mr. Morfin has a wide array of experience in both Civil and Criminal Law. He currently works for L.A. County, as an Advocate working on Employment and Administrative Law issues, where he conducts hearings and participates in mediations and arbitrations. He also worked at the L.A. County District Attorney’s Office as a Senior Law Clerk, and previously a Certified Law Clerk where he prosecuted numerous criminal trials and Preliminary Hearings. He has conducted trials and hearings as a Student-Attorney with the D.C. Law Students in Court Criminal Law Program, volunteered with the CAIR Coalition (Immigration Law), and worked on Tax and Property issues with the D.C. Bar Advice and Referral Clinic.
Mr. Morfin also clerked at the Washington, D.C. civil law firm of Harmon, Wilmot & Brown, L.L.P, where he assisted in both civil and criminal litigation. Additionally, Mr. Morfin worked as a Legal Research Assistant for a world-renowned professor of Law and Forensic Sciences at GW Law, where he engaged in numerous research and writing projects, assisted in an archaeological dig at the Gettysburg battlefied in Pennsylvania, and partcipated in a forensic exhumation in Wyoming.
Mr. Morfin has also volunteered his time teaching inner-city children. From 2002-2005, as part of Geoge Washington University’s Street Law Program, he taught basic legal principles to teenagers in Washington D.C., culminating in his students conducting a mock-trial at his law school. Furthermore, while at the L.A. County District Attorney’s Office, Mr. Morfin volunteered his time teaching Los Angeles elementary school students about crime prevention and the power of education.
His publications include two years as a writer and researcher for Scientific Sleuthing Review, a widely circulated legal journal of Law and Forensic Science, Editor for Westwind Journal, and U.S. Supreme Court writer for Nota Bene, the Official Newspaper of the George Washington University Law School.
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Email AraAra Hatamian holds a Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from Trinity International University. He has been an instructor in Platt College’s Paralegal Studies program since 2005.
