Laura currently works as a clinical supervisor in the Housing Unit of East Bay Community Law Center. In that role, Laura supervises law students in the clinical program at Berkeley Law while serving low-income clients in the East Bay dealing with a variety of housing issues, including eviction, disability discrimination, and rent disputes. Laura previously worked as a public defender in the Special Litigation Unit at Orleans Public Defenders from 2015-2021.

– Laura Bixby, JD ’14

“I am an antitrust litigator who has worked for both private public interest firms and state government. I have litigated antitrust cases involving illegal information exchange by chicken producers, a conspiracy by propane producers to reduce the fill levels of propane tanks without the customers’ knowledge, and price fixing in the generic drugs industry. I have also reviewed mergers and acquisitions in the healthcare industry for anticompetitive concerns. In this work, I hold companies accountable for following the law when individual consumers might not have the standing or resources to do so.”

– Christina Black, JD ’14

“I’m currently a Researcher with the US Program at Human Rights Watch, working on an investigation into Customs and Border Patrol’s practices around screening and identifying asylum seekers at the border—amongst other violations. Prior to this, I worked most recently as legal director at a local non-profit in Charlotte, NC, the Latin American Coalition, helping low income immigrants regularize their status and working on educating and empowering North Carolina’s immigrant and POC communities. I started my career in Charlotte as a justice AmeriCorps Equal Justice Works fellow working with unaccompanied minors, a move which catapulted me into the asylum world in the US, a world which I continue to be deeply involved in. I was then an immigration Staff Attorney, and helped start the Charlotte Center of Excellence, part of a national movement dedicated to winning every meritorious case, every time. Starting in August 2018, I will be working on creating launching the only non-profit in North Carolina dedicated to providing pro bono and low bono removal defense for immigrants in immigration court proceedings.”

– Atenas Burrola, JD ’14, Researcher, Human Rights Watch

John Butler is the Director of Research and Outreach at Fair and Just Prosecution, a national non-profit that works with newly elected reform-minded prosecutors to help them implement their ambitious policy agendas through regular convenings, policy research, and expert assistance. In this role, John manages a team of lawyers and criminal justice policy experts and provides direct assistance to elected prosecutors and their senior staff on a wide range of criminal justice issues, including bail reform, alternatives to incarceration, drug policy, and police accountability. His clients include 19 elected DA’s from around the country. John is also an Associate Director at the Center for Court Innovation, where his work focuses on court-based reform to the criminal justice system, including planning community courts and expanding procedural justice. Prior to joining the Center, John clerked on the District Court of New Jersey, worked as a researcher for the Stanford Criminal Justice Center, and was a director at a youth development non-profit in Newark, NJ. He holds a bachelor’s degree in American Studies from Brown University, a Masters in Comparative Politics from the London School of Economics and a J.D. from Stanford Law School. He is the President of the Board of BioBus, Inc. and a Trustee at Frost Valley, YMCA; two education non-profits in the New York metropolitan area.

– John Butler, JD ’14

“I am currently an Earl Warren Fellow at the California Office of the Solicitor General—a two-year fellowship for attorneys with recent appellate clerkship experience. I have thus far had the opportunity to work on dozens of appellate matters, comprising a diverse array of subject areas, including environmental law, immigration law, tax law, constitutional law, criminal law, and many others. A substantial portion of my work has focused on defending state laws against constitutional challenge, but I have also worked on affirmative litigation, where the State is seeking to enforce laws against private actors or to enjoin actions taken by the federal government. While the focus of my practice has been on appellate litigation—chiefly before the U.S. Supreme Court and the California Supreme Court—I have also had significant exposure to trial court litigation, including working on California’s challenge to the federal government’s rescission of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.”

– Max Carter-Oberstone, JD ’14, Earl Warren Fellow, California Office of the Solicitor General

“I returned to Canada shortly after graduation, where I’ve had a varied career. I’ve primarily worked in the areas of civil rights and civil liberties (law and policy), as well as union-side labour law.”

– Rob De Luca, JD ’14

“I am a Law Fellow at the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama, a non-profit human rights organization dedicated to providing legal services to the poor, incarcerated and condemned, and to changing the way our country talks about its history of racial injustice. My work involves representing prisoners on death row, children sentenced to life without the possibility of parole, and reentry clients struggling to get on their feet after decades in prison. I also conduct historical research for our museum, which recounts the history of racial injustice from slavery to mass incarceration, and for our memorial to victims of lynching.”

– Mark Feldman, JD ’14, Law Fellow, Equal Justice Initiative

Sherri Hansen is an Associate at The Liu Law Firm, P.C. Ms. Hansen represents employees in individual and class actions involving discrimination and wage and hour violations, and provides advice on employment contracts and agreements. She also represents victims of civil rights violations and abuse, including survivors of campus sexual assault in Title IX cases.

– Sherri Hansen, JD ’14, Associate, The Liu Law Firm, P.C.

Mary (Van Houten) Harper is a staff attorney at Brooklyn Defender Services, where she defends detained immigrants in deportation proceedings through the New York Immigrant Family Unity Project — the nation’s first public defender system for detained immigrants.  Mary represents non-citizens before the immigration agencies and federal courts, litigating issues related to non-citizens’ release from detention, status or protection in the United States, and a range of other due process issues in an era of increased enforcement and xenophobia.

– Mary (Van Houten) Harper, JD ’14, Staff Attorney, Brooklyn Defender Services

Nisha Kashyap is a senior supervising attorney in the Consumer Law Unit at Public Counsel. She represents low-income consumers, including older adults, veterans, and foster youth, to combat abusive and predatory practices and policies. Her work includes impact litigation, direct services, and policy reform. She previously worked at the Alliance for Children’s Rights as a staff attorney and Skadden fellow and clerked for Judge Keith Ellison on the Southern District of Texas.

– Nisha Kashyap, JD ’14, Senior Supervising Attorney, Public Counsel

Rebecca is a lawyer and community advocate. She’s focused her legal career on housing issues—including lead poisoning in children, tenant’s rights, and utilities access. She previously ran her own law practice, was a staff attorney for the Legal Aid Society of Cleveland, and clerked for Judge James Gwin of the Northern District of Ohio. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago and her J.D. from Stanford Law School.

– Rebecca Maurer, JD ’14

“I worked as a public defender for over six years, providing representation to indigent defendants in San Jose, California, and Seattle, Washington. As a public defender, I started out handling simple misdemeanors and ended up defending individuals charged with murder and other serious crimes. In January of 2021, I launched my own criminal defense law practice in Seattle. In addition to representing individuals accused of crimes in state and federal court, I have an active appellate practice. I’m most proud of the public service work I do running the Amicus Committee for the Washington Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers; I regularly author briefs for the Washington Supreme Court on issues affecting criminal defense, civil liberties, and constitutional law.”

– Mark Middaugh, JD ’14

Joel Minor is an Associate Attorney with Earthjustice, the nation’s oldest and largest public interest nonprofit environmental law firm.  Joel works Earthjustice’s Rocky Mountain Office in Denver, where he advocates to protect communities and ecosystems from the harmful impacts of oil and gas development.  His work focuses on reducing air pollution from the oil and gas sector.  Most of his litigation docket consists of challenging the Trump Administration’s and industry’s efforts to eliminate federal health and safety standards for the oil and gas industry, including the EPA’s Methane Rule, the BLM’s Waste Prevention Rule, and the BLM’s Hydraulic Fracturing (Fracking) Rule.  He also advocates for clean air in Colorado communities through state-level policy efforts to reduce oil and gas emissions and challenging air pollution permits for a refinery in a low-income, predominantly Latino neighborhood in north Denver.

– Joel Minor, JD ’14, Associate Attorney, Earthjustice

Casey Raymond is currently a Skadden Fellow at Bet Tzedek Legal Services in Los Angeles. As a member of the Employment Rights Project, he represents low-income workers who have been subject to widespread wage theft and discrimination. Prior to his fellowship, he clerked for Judge Myron Thompson of the Middle District of Alabama and Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

– Casey Raymond, JD ’14, Skadden Fellow, Bet Tzedek Legal Services

“I litigate voting rights, redistricting, and other election law matters on behalf of public interest clients.”

– Jacob Shelly, JD ’14

“I am an attorney in Washington, D.C., with the Appellate & Supreme Court Litigation Branch, Office of the General Counsel, for the National Labor Relations Board, which is the independent administrative agency responsible for protecting the rights of workers under federal law to join labor unions or to take other concerted actions to improve their working conditions. My job primarily consists of briefing and arguing cases in the U.S. Courts of Appeals seeking judicial enforcement of the agency’s unfair-labor-practice orders. Cases frequently involve remedies such as securing backpay and reinstatement for workers fired after exercising their statutory rights, directing employers to engage in collective bargaining with labor unions, and more generally ordering parties to cease and desist from engaging in unlawful conduct.”

– Eric Weitz, JD ’14, Attorney, National Labor Relations Board