
“She is smart and hard-working,” Andrade said via text. She led the misdemeanor unit at the public defender’s office, and was a leader in developing a homeless court in Merced County. She also filed a number of pre-trial writs and an appeal in the 5th District Court of Appeal, he said. That included misdemeanors, felonies, homicide cases and juvenile delinquency cases.

The kinds of cases she handled in her role as deputy public defender ran the gamut, according to Public Defender Vincent Andrade. “Every day was a new challenge, a very big misdemeanor caseload, but I got to work with some of the most amazing colleagues who were helpful and friendly and open and eager to help me learn,” she said of her eight years of experience in the public defenders office.

She described working in Merced County as a “dream come true” since it’s relatively close to her hometown of Patterson. “I didn’t feel law school adequately prepared me for the practice of law, so the master of laws was my way of doing that, and it absolutely achieved that goal.” “It gave me the chance to have hands-on practical experience with clients, with cases, from the arraignment stage all the way through to the verdict or sentencing stage of a case, including the discovery and investigations,” Jamieson said.
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The subsequent masters in the legal field helped her to focus her studies on the practice of law and trial advocacy, something she said helped fill in the gaps in her legal education. “It just felt right as soon as I started studying for the LSAT, as soon as I set foot on campus at law school, it just felt right in a way that the sciences never did.”Īfter attending Santa Clara University School of Law, Jamieson went on to get a master of laws degree from California Western School of Law. After the mock trial, her professor recommended she apply to law school. At UC Berkeley she majored in German after two years studying natural sciences at University of Kassel in Germany.
