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| WC Defense Attorney Wins 'The Apprentice' :
04/27/07
A Los Angeles workers' compensation defense attorney won the sixth season of "The Apprentice" television show during a season finale at the Hollywood Bowl on Sunday night. Stefani Schaeffer, a 32-year-old attorney with the Stockwell, Harris, Widom, Woolverton and Muehl firm, beat out Internet entrepreneur James Sun of Seattle to become the first attorney and the second woman to win the NBC reality show, which concluded its sixth and possibly final season Sunday. She will receive a $250,000 salary as the apprentice of host Donald Trump. She will oversee construction of Trump at Cap Cana, a resort complex in the Dominican Republic that includes a beach club, condominium hotel, private villas, a golf course and 68 private estates. Schaeffer chose the Caribbean project over an opportunity to supervise the construction of two skyscrapers in Atlanta. Schaeffer, a native of Burbank, Calif., graduated in the top 10% of her class from Southwestern University School of Law in Los Angeles. She completed the SCALE program, which is the only two-year juris doctorate program in the United States accredited by the American Bar Association, according to a profile posted on NBC's Web site. Schaeffer received a bachelor's degree from the University of California, Riverside, majoring in English and psychology. She was admitted to the state bar in 1999. Schaeffer defends employers, primarily real estate developers, against workers' compensation subrogation, discrimination, and product defect claims, according to the profile posted on "The Apprentice" Web site. Schaeffer did not return a telephone call to her Los Angeles office on Monday. A secretary there said she would be out of her office for the entire week.
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