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Vic­to­ria Ortiz

Vic­to­ria Ortiz grad­u­at­ed from Barnard Col­lege and the City Uni­ver­si­ty of New York Law School. She has worked as a high school teacher, as a col­lege teacher, as an attor­ney, and as dean of stu­dents at sev­er­al law schools. Her pub­lished work includes Span­ish for Lawyers (2012), a unique man­u­al for law stu­dents and lawyers who need to dis­cuss legal mat­ters in this use­ful lan­guage. Now retired, Ms. Ortiz lives in the Bay Area with her wife. 

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