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Dec. 30, 2008

For the People

Doing painstaking research as a Fulbright scholar at Oxford quickly persuaded Judge Elia Weinbach to trade the musty halls of academia for a client-oriented job in law.

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By Sandra Hernandez
Daily Journal Staff Writer

LOS ANGELES - Elia Weinbach's legal epiphany unfolded in the rarified halls of an Oxford University library.

A young Fulbright scholar, Weinbach was painstakingly researching Anglo-Irish history, including a secret Irish society that made its way across the Atlantic and set down roots in Pennyslvania's coal mines during the Civil War, when he began to question his future as an academic.

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