Julia Yoo | Attorney
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About Julia
Upon graduation from law school in 1998, Julia Yoo founded the Law Center for Women Prisoners, a nonprofit organization designed to assist incarcerated women. The Law Center, in partnership with externship programs through the University of Colorado law school, provided legal assistance to hundreds of incarcerated women for a variety of issues from failure to provide adequate medical care to termination of parental rights.
In 2000, Julia began litigating on behalf of incarcerated people for violation of their Constitutional rights under the Eighth Amendment. She has filed suits against private and public prisons for failure to provide appropriate and timely medical care and for sexual assault committed by prison staff. She has represented eight incarcerated women in the state of Colorado alone, all of whom prevailed in their lawsuits.
In 2003, Julia joined Gene Iredale and began litigating on behalf of people whose Constitutional rights have been violated by wrongful arrest or the use of excessive force, as well as wrongful death. Julia has given lectures and presentations on the rights of incarcerated people, most recently in 2008 at the National Lawyers' Guild conference in Detroit, and to various law enforcement and legal organizations. She has also guest lectured at Metropolitan State College in Denver, Colorado.
In the past nine years, Julia has been actively involved in nonprofit and charitable activities outside the practice of law. She has sat on numerous boards of directors of various educational and criminal justice organizations. She has served on the board of directors of Rescu Academy, a school for at-risk children; Wellesley College San Diego Club, where she served as Alumnae Admission Representative; and Colorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalition, where she remains on the advisory board. She currently sits on the board of directors of Girls Think Tank, a grassroots organization addressing homelessness and violence against women.
Education
University of Colorado School of Law
J.D.