Biography

Lisa Hird Chung practices all aspects of employment litigation, including suits for wrongful termination, defamation, discrimination, and wage and hour violations. She provides assistance on labor law issues including collective bargaining and labor arbitration. Ms. Chung has also obtained more than a dozen workplace violence restraining orders for the protection of threatened employees.

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 the Bankruptcy Clinic. She also wrote dozens of motions and appeared in court on behalf of criminal defendants through the county public defender’s office.

Publications

• Author, “Able Hands, Able Minds: How Offices Benefit By Hiring Developmentally Disabled Employees,” Daily Journal (Dec. 31, 2009).
• Co-author, “Brave New Cyberworld:  The Employer’s Legal Guide to the Interactive Internet,” American Bar Association’s The Labor Lawyer (Winter 2008)
• Bender’s California Labor and Employment Bulletin, Profile Columnist, 2005 – present
• Author, “Free Trade in Human Gametes as a Solution to Procreative Tourism and the Unregulated Internet,” Minnesota Journal of International Law (Winter 2005)

Professional Activities

• Member, San Diego County Bar Association
• Associate Member, Clifford J. Wallace Inn of Court, 2008 – present
• Presenter, California Legal Secretaries Association Annual Conference, “Privacy in the Workplace” (2010)
• San Diego Employers Association, Seminar Instructor, “Wage and Hour Law Basics” and “Personnel Law 101” (2008)
• Legal Writing Instructor, University of Minnesota Law School, 2004 – 2006
• Pro Bono Service Award, University of Minnesota Law School, 2006