Lisa Chung practices all aspects of labor and employment litigation, including suits for wrongful termination, defamation, discrimination, wage and hour, and workers’ compensation discrimination.

Ms. Chung worked as a summer associate at PPSC in 2005. During law school, Ms. Chung represented clients as a student attorney through the University of Minnesota Special Education Clinic and Bankruptcy Clinic. She also wrote dozens of motions and twice appeared in court on behalf of criminal defendants through the public defender’s office.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Paul, Plevin, Sullivan & Connaughton LLP – Summer Associate, 2005; Associate, December 2006 to present
• Honorable Judge John R. Tunheim, U.S. District Court, District
  of Minnesota – Judicial Extern, 2006
• Hennepin County (Minneapolis) Public Defender’s Office – Law Clerk,
  2004 - 2006
• Arizona Supreme Court, Administrative Office of the Courts, Education Specialist, 2002 – 2003
• Arizona State Senate, Judiciary Committee, Research Staff, 2002

EDUCATION

• University of Minnesota
  J.D., 2006, cum laude
• Arizona State University
  B.S., 2002, summa cum laude

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

• Legal Writing Instructor, University of Minnesota Law School,
  2004 – 2006
• Association of Trial Lawyers of America, Student Trial Advocacy Competition 2006

PUBLICATIONS

• Benders California, Profile Articles Columnist
• “Free Trade in Human Gametes as a Solution to Procreative Tourism and the Unregulated Internet,” Minnesota Journal of International Law (Winter 2005).

ADMISSIONS

Ms. Chung is admitted to practice before all California state courts and the District Court for the Southern District of California.