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Three Lawyers who made the transition from private practice to public interest law discuss their career paths and give recommendations for those thinking of making a similar transition.
Panelists:
- Vivian Wang JD ’10, Deputy Attorney General, California Department of Justice
- Ellie Dehghan JD ’12, Youth Justice Attorney, Bay Area Legal Aid
- Titi Liu, Director of International Public Interest Initiatives, SLS Levin Center
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After graduating from Stanford Law in 2010, Vivian Wang clerked for Judge Diane Sykes on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and Judge Jeremy Fogel in the Northern District of California. She then practiced business litigation at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP in Menlo Park, followed by Berliner Cohen LLP in San Jose. In September 2015, she joined the Consumer Law Section of the California Attorney General’s office, where many of her assignments have involved for-profit universities. | |
Ellie Dehghan is an attorney at Bay Area Legal Aid in the Youth Justice Unit. As Youth Justice Attorney, she provides civil legal services to youth who are homeless or at risk of homelessness, many of whom are system involved. After graduating law school, Ellie worked at Bryan Cave as a litigation associate for almost two years. She then made the transition to public interest and joined a legal aid in Los Angeles, where she worked on a medical legal partnership and focused mainly on housing and immigration issues. | |
Titi Liu is the Director of International Public Interest Initiatives at the Levin Center. Titi has a long career advancing social justice issues both domestically and internationally. She was the law and rights program officer for the Ford Foundation in Beijing, China and a State Department and USAID consultant. She was most recently the Executive Director of the Asian Law Caucus. Prior to joining the Caucus, she was the Garvey Schubert Barer visiting professor in Asian Law at the University of Washington. Titi started her career in private practice with the China practice group of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind Wharton and Garrison based out of their Hong Kong office. |