In February, Olu Orange and Je Yon Jung won a $8.85 Million verdict in a Monell case against LA County DCFS. The case involved heartbreaking facts and complicated theories of liability related to the County’s failure to train, supervise, and discipline social workers. Join Olu and Je Yon as they discuss how they worked up the case, presented evidence, and convicted a jury to hold Los Angeles County accountable.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER(S)
Je Yon Jung has over 25 years of experience as a civil rights attorney. After clerking for the Honorable Linda K. Davis on the D.C. Superior Court, she began her legal career as an Honors Attorney for the United States Department of Justice (DOJ), Civil Rights Division. While at the DOJ, she prosecuted pattern or practice civil rights cases throughout the United States’ federal district courts. Her practice areas included police misconduct; fair housing; fair lending; public accommodations; conditions in correctional facilities, juvenile facilities, and mental health hospitals; and access to reproductive health clinic entrances. While at the DOJ, her seminal cases included matters involving the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office, the LAPD, and the VIPD; the largest Title II hotel discrimination case against the Adam’s Mark Hotel; the first RLUIPA case; and the largest FHA design and construction case.
After 14 years with the DOJ, she went to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Office of Fair Lending, where she served as the Western Region Fair Lending Counsel for seven years. In addition to assisting with the “start-up” of a new federal agency, her cases included a $96 million settlement against American Express for discriminatory practices, and the CFPB’s first joint lawsuit with the DOJ to enforce the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA) against National City Bank for charging higher prices on mortgage loans to Black and Latinx borrowers, requiring $35 million in restitution.
After a brief stint as the Chief Risk Officer and General Counsel at one of the fastest-growing minority-owned nonbank mortgage companies, Je Yon knew her calling was to enter the Plaintiffs’ bar. She now uses her 25 years of litigation experience on behalf of individuals and communities who want and need a fierce advocate and experienced attorney. In addition to representing multiple families of victims of police brutality and misconduct in Section 1983 actions across the country; she volunteers her time to lead a team dedicated to police reform in Los Angeles. She also serves as a member of the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee on the In Re Zantac Litigation–a federal Multi-District Litigation on behalf of Zantac/ranitidine consumers. She has also filed a class action against the NCAA for discrimination against Black-student athletes at HBCUs.
Je Yon immigrated to the United States from South Korea when she was a young girl. She grew up in Colorado, and after law school in Columbus, Ohio, she made her home and family in Washington D.C. After 16 years in D.C., she moved with her family to the Bay Area for 5 years and then to Southern California, where she is now based. She now lives in Orange County with her husband and three children. In her “free” time, she is running to soccer practices and games.
One last thing…because nobody gets it right the first time, her first name is pronounced “Jay-yun.”
Olu K. Orange handles civil rights, probate, and class action litigation in state and federal courts. He has won millions of dollars in verdicts and settlements in civil rights cases and successfully litigated complex probate matters for iconic entertainers’ estates. Mr. Orange is a faculty member and Director of the Dornsife Trial Advocacy Program at the University of Southern California, where he has taught since authoring the instructional trial advocacy curriculum in 2001. The Program consists of three components: the USC Mock Trial Team; the POSC 398, “Trial Advocacy: Theory and Practice” class; and the Pro Bono Program supported by the Jack Harding and Mohammad Usman Chaudhry endowed funds.
Orange also founded and serves as the Director of the USC Dornsife Agents of Change: Civil Rights Advocacy Initiative (“AoC”). Created in 2020, AoC is the first undergraduate civil rights clinic in the nation. Both AoC and the Dornsife Trial Advocacy Program are academic programs within Dornsife’s Office of Experiential and Applied Learning.
In January of 2021, Mr. Orange was one of 17 lawyers (of the 266,000 in California) selected by the Daily Journal to be honored with the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California as a Top Lawyer of the Decade. Mr. Orange was recognized for his decade-defining civil rights work.
Orange has thrice been selected as a recipient of the California Lawyer Attorney of the Year (CLAY) Award — first in 2015, again in 2017, and yet again in 2021 for his civil rights work. In 2016, Orange was selected as one of the Daily Journal’s Top 100 lawyers in California in recognition of his civil rights and entertainment law practices at his firm, Orange Law Offices, P.C. Orange is also consistently selected by Thomson Reuters as a ‘Super Lawyer’ in his firm’s practice areas. Orange began practicing law in California as a Deputy Public Defender in Orange County.
In 2001, Orange co-founded the USC Mock Trial Team and since then has served as its Head Coach. Orange teaches POSC 398, “Trial Advocacy: Theory and Practice.” He also taught POSC 452, “Law & Local Political Activism.” Orange authored the curricula for both courses, POSC 398 & POSC 452.
Since 2006, Orange has been a teaching team member for Harvard Law School’s (HLS) Winter Trial Advocacy Workshop (TAW), a full-credit HLS clinical course. For HLS TAW, Orange has been selected to demonstrate the faculty closing argument, opening statement and cross-examination.
Since 2007, Orange has also served as a NITA faculty member for in-house, and public, trial advocacy and deposition skills programs held for attorneys at various private firms, public organizations and state and federal government law offices nationwide.
Mr. Orange also provides pro bono representation to Los Angeles area political activists, is on the Executive Board of the National Lawyers Guild – L.A. Chapter, and serves as a member of the Los Angeles County Indigent Criminal Defense Appointments Panel— staying true to his roots as a former Deputy Public Defender for Orange County, California.
Orange is a native of Detroit, Michigan who found his way to Los Angeles by way of the District of Columbia. He attended civil rights mecca Howard University in Washington D.C. for both his undergraduate and law degrees, a Bachelor of Arts in Legal Communication and a Juris Doctorate, respectively.
DATE and TIME
Thursday, May 21, 2026, at the following time by time zone:
- 11:00am – 12:30pm PST
- 12:00pm – 1:30pm MST
- 1:00pm – 2:30pm CST
- 2:00pm – 3:30pm EST
A NOTE ABOUT TIME ZONES
Any time listed in this registration that does not include a time zone can be assumed to be in Central Standard Time (CST).
ACCREDITATION
This event is accredited for 1.5 general credit hours with the State Bar of California (NPAP is a multiple activity provider with the State Bar of CA).
Most attendees should be able to self-report for CLE credit to their own state bars, and in instances where a state bar requires that the event sponsor report on behalf of attendees, NPAP is happy to assist.
RECORDING
The event will be recorded and the recording will be available to attendees after the event. However, attendees will only be elligible for CLE credit for the portions of the event that they attended live. Retroactive viewing of recordings will not be elligible for CLE credit, as NPAP does not have a means of validating attendee participation in this circumstance.
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ACCESSIBILITY
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