Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos

Day Event | This program is completed

Adult Education

Friday, December 3, 2021 (one day)

10:00 AM-11:40 AM PDT on Fri

$25.00

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Oak Dowling will guide us through the key elements of the trial so far. Holmes is now facing charges of wire fraud and a significant portion of the trial has been in-depth scientific and financial detail, including testimony from several former lab workers who grew concerned about the company's technology. But former defense secretary Jim Mattis, who was on the board, took the stand to say he would have had a different view of the company if he had known its limitations. And pages of text messages between Holmes and her then-boyfriend Sunny Balwani—who was also the company’s president—were read aloud in court. In an unexpected twist, a juror was excused for playing too much Sudoku. 

 

Oak Dowling, JD, is a retired attorney with 43 years of practice, including 31 years in San Rafael. He's a graduate of the University of Wisconsin – Madison Law School and a native of Chicago. He has lived in Marin County for over 40 years and for over 24 years he has been a part-time instructor of Law at College of Marin. In his Law classes, he has used courtroom drama to demonstrate legal principles. As an avocation, he has performed in theater in Marin and San Francisco over the last 15 years.