Curriculum Vitae

[downloadable PDF copy of CV available here]

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

Seattle University School of Law, Seattle, WA

Appointments: Vice Dean for Intellectual Life, 2025 – Present; Associate Professor of Law (with tenure), 2025 – Present; Associate Professor of Law, 2022 – 2025

Courses: Civil Procedure; Professional Responsibility

Honors: Excellence in Scholarship Award, 2025

University of Florida Levin College of Law, Gainesville, FL

Appointments: Assistant Professor of Law, 2019 – 2022

Courses: Civil Procedure; Professional Responsibility; Critical Perspectives on Civil Procedure

New York University School of Law, New York, NY

Appointments: Acting Assistant Professor of Lawyering, 2015 – 2019; Adjunct Professor of Clinical Law, 2016 – 2019

Courses: Lawyering; Role of the Corporate General Counsel Seminar & Externship

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Law Review Articles

Preventive Transparency in Third-Party Litigation Funding, 120 Northwestern University Law  Review __ (forthcoming 2025)

Ethical Guardrails to Unbounded Procedure, 93 Fordham Law Review 49 (2024)

• Selected for peer review in JOTWELL (February 20, 2025)

Discovery Dark Matter, 101 Texas Law Review 1021 (2023)

• 2023 Junior Scholar Award Honorable Mention, Civil Procedure Section, AALS

Fee Retrenchment in Immigration Habeas, 90 Fordham Law Review 1489 (2022)

• Republished in Thomson Reuter’s Immigration Briefing (August 2022)

Ad Tech & the Future of Legal Ethics, 73 Alabama Law Review 107 (2021)

Contracting for Confidential Discovery, 53 UC Davis Law Review 1249 (2020)

• Cited by Binh Hoa Le v. Exeter Fin. Corp., 990 F.3d 410 (5th Cir. 2021)

Discovery Hydraulics, 52 UC Davis Law Review 1317 (2019)

Technological Opacity & Procedural Injustice, 59 Boston College Law Review 821 (2018)

Chapters, Essays & Reviews

The Uneven Impact of AI Discovery, Cambridge Handbook of Artificial Intelligence & The Law (eds. Kristin Johnson & Carla Reyes, forthcoming Cambridge University Press)

Discovery Gamesmanship in Mass Torts, 74 DePaul Law Review 175 (2025) (invited symposium essay)

De-Othering Pro Se Litigants, JOTWELL (June 14, 2024) (reviewing Roger Michalski & Andrew Hammond, Mapping the Civil Justice Gap in Federal Court, 57 Wake Forest Law Review 463 (2022))

Deepening Our Understanding of the Who’s of the A2J Crisis, JOTWELL (July 17, 2023) (reviewing Kathryne M. Young & Katie R. Billings, An Intersectional Examination of U.S. Civil Justice Problems, 2023 Utah Law Review 487))

“Order Without Law” in Discovery, JOTWELL (March 21, 2022) (reviewing Edith Beerdsen, Discovery Culture, 57 Georgia Law Review 981 (2023))

Privilege & Voice in Discovery, A Guide to Civil Procedure: Integrating Critical Legal Perspectives (eds. Brooke Coleman, Suzette Malveaux, Portia Pedro, & Elizabeth Porter, 2022)

Charting the Interactions of Legal Tech and Civil Procedure, JOTWELL (July 1, 2020) (reviewing David Freeman Engstrom & Jonah B. Gelbach, Legal Tech, Civil Procedure, and the Future of Adversarialism, 169 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1001 (2021))

McCutcheon v. FEC; Media Exemption, Encyclopedia of Money in American Politics (ed. David Schultz, 2017)

Citizens United, the Koch Brothers, Corruption, and Democracy, Guernica (February 24, 2015) (with Liz Kennedy)

The World According to, and After, McCutcheon v. FEC, and Why It Matters, 49 Valparaiso University Law Review 533 (2015) (invited symposium essay with Liz Kennedy)

The Need for Transformative Jurisprudential Change, Brennan Center for Justice (October 15, 2014)

PRESENTATIONS

Preventive Transparency in Third-Party Litigation Funding presented or to be presented at:

• Civil Justice Colloquium, University of California, Irvine School of Law, October 28, 2025

• Tenth Civil Procedure Workshop, University of Richmond School of Law, June 3, 2025

• Third Party Litigation Financing Research Roundtable, The Henry G. Manne Program in Law & Economics Studies, George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School, October 11, 2024

ACP Panel for New Professors: Preparing for a Faculty Position, Academic Career Program, New York University School of Law, July 8, 2025

The Trump Administration’s Attack on the Independence and Efficacy of the Bar (panelist), Seattle University School of Law, April 29, 2025

Luncheon Roundtable on Third Party Litigation Financing & Litigation Transparency (panelist), The Henry G. Manne Program in Law & Economics Studies, George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School, March 26, 2025

Procedural Innovation (moderator), 2025 Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting, January 10, 2025

ACP Panel for New Professors: Preparing for a Faculty Position, Academic Career Program, New York University School of Law, June 27, 2024

Discovery Gamesmanship in Mass Torts presented at the 30th Annual Clifford Symposium on Tort Law & Social Policy, DePaul College of Law, June 7, 2024

Meta-Discovery presented at:

• Civil Procedure Workshop, University of California College of the Law, San Francisco, June 1, 2024

• Bay Area Procedure Forum, April 4, 2023

• 2022 Junior Faculty Federal Courts Workshop, University of Florida Levin College of Law, December 1, 2022

Ethical Guardrails to Unbounded Procedure presented at:

• Clifford Scholar-in-Residence Lecture, DePaul College of Law, November 14, 2023

• Legal Ethics Schmooze, University of Denver Sturm College of Law, May 26, 2023

• Civil Procedure Workshop  (selected plenary session presenter), Northwestern Law School, May 20, 2023

• Junior Scholars Works in Progress Summer Series, Professional Responsibility Section, AALS, June 29, 2022

Privilege & Voice in Discovery presented at:

• Annual 1L Perspectives Lecture Series, University of Washington Law School, November 3, 2023

• Critical Approach to Civil Procedure Workshop, Boston University Law School, May 8, 2019

Conflicts of Interests in Class Actions (panelist), Second Annual Complex Litigation Ethics Conference, University of California College of the Law, San Francisco, October 28, 2023

ACP Panel for New Professors: Preparing for a Faculty Position, Academic Career Program, New York University School of Law, June 27, 2023

AI & the Law (presenter), Gerald T. Bennett American Inn of Court, March 31, 2022

Discovery Dark Matter presented at:

• Faculty Colloquium, University of Georgia School of Law, March 21, 2022

• Civil Procedure Workshop Summer 2021 Works-In-Progress Series, August 12, 2021

• Civil Procedure Discussion Group, SEALS Annual Conference, July 31, 2021

• Scholarship Roundtable, , University of Florida Levin College of Law, April 21, 2021

AI as Evidence (commentator), University of Florida Levin College of Law, November 17, 2021

1L Orientation Panel (panelist), Law Alumni of Color Association, New York University School of Law, August 26, 2021

Fee Retrenchment in Immigration Habeas presented at:

• 2021 Annual Conference, Law & Society Association, May 27, 2021

• Sixth Annual Civil Procedure Workshop, Northwestern Law School, October 23, 2020

The Uneven Impact of AI Discovery presented at Cambridge University Press Research Handbook on Artificial Intelligence & the Law Symposium, Emory Law School & SMU Dedman School of Law, April 30, 2021

Race, Gender, and Diversity in Legal Academia (panelist), Law Alumni of Color Association and the Academic Career Program, New York University School of Law, April 9, 2021

By Any Means Necessary? Defining the Limits of Civil Disobedience (moderator), Law Alumni of Color Association and the Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law, New York University School of Law, February 18, 2021

Ad Tech & the Future of Legal Ethics presented at Professional Responsibility Section New Voices Works-In-Progress Workshop, AALS 2021 Annual Conference, January 9, 2021

The Civil Procedure Transformation After Fifteen Years of the Roberts Court (discussant), SEALS Annual Conference, August 4, 2020

Virtual Workshop Conference (commentator), Professional Responsibility Section, AALS, July 30, 2020

Dangerous Secrets: Confronting Confidentiality in Our Public Courts (commentator), 2020 Forum for State Appellate Court Judges, Pound Civil Justice Institute, July 11, 2020

Contracting for Confidential Discovery presented at:

• Fourth Annual Civil Procedure Workshop (selected plenary session presenter), Stanford Law School, November 9, 2018

• Tenth Annual Junior Faculty Federal Courts Workshop, University of Oklahoma College of Law, September 15, 2018

• Prospective Law Teachers Workshop, SEALS Annual Conference, August 6, 2018

Discovery Hydraulics presented at:

• Third Annual Civil Procedure Workshop, James E. Rogers College of Law, University of Arizona, October 6, 2017

• Lawyering Scholarship Colloquium, New York University School of Law, May 31, 2017

Technological Opacity & Procedural Injustice presented at:

• Joint Conference of Asian Pacific American Law Faculty and Northeast People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference, Brooklyn Law School, June 2, 2017

• Academic Careers Program Scholarship Clinic, New York University School of Law, April 7, 2017

National Voter Registration Day Panel (moderator), American Constitution Society for Law and Policy, New York University School of Law, September 28, 2016

EDUCATION

New York University School of Law, New York, NY

Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, 2007

Honors: Order of the Coif; Ann Petluck Poses Memorial Prize; Florence Allen Scholar; 2005 Robert Masur Fellowship in Civil Liberties

Activities: Teaching Assistant, (Constitutional Law), Prof. Derrick Bell, Spring 2007; Research Assistant (Law of Democracy), Prof. Samuel Issacharoff, Spring 2007; Research Assistant (Civil Procedure), Prof. Helen Hershkoff, Summer 2005; Student Representative, Curriculum & Adjunct Appointments Committee, 2005 – 2007; Secretary/Member, Coalition for Legal Recruiting, 2004 – 2007; Brennan Center Public Policy Advocacy Clinic, 2005 – 2006; Offender Reentry Clinic, Fall 2006

University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Bachelor of Arts in Law, Letters and Society, with General Honors, 2001

Honors: Dean’s List, 1996–2000

EXPERIENCE

Demos, New York, NY

Legal Fellow, 2014 – 2015

Hawaii State Intermediate Court of Appeals, Honolulu, HI

Law Clerk to Associate Judge Alexa Fujise, 2012 – 2013

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, San Francisco, CA

Law Clerk to Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler, 2011 – 2012

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, New York, NY

Law Clerk & Associate, 2007 & 2009

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, Miami, FL

Law Clerk to Circuit Judge Rosemary Barkett, 2008

Monitor Group, Chicago, IL

Consultant, 2002 – 2004

ACADEMIC SERVICE

Seattle University School of Law, Seattle, WA

• Appointments Committee, 2023 – Present

• Intellectual Life Committee, Spring 2023, Spring 2025 – Present

• 1L Community Commons Coordinator, 2024 – Present

• Curriculum and Pedagogy, Spring 2025 – Present

• Pedagogy & Development Committee, 2025 – Present

• Rankings Task Force, Spring 2025 – Present

• Center for Community Engagement Committee (university), Spring 2025 – Present

• Office of Sponsored Projects Advisory Board (university), Spring 2025 – Present

University of Florida Levin College of Law, Gainesville, FL

• Florida Law Review (faculty adviser), 2021 – 2022

• APALSA (faculty adviser), 2020 – 2022

• Curriculum Committee, 2020 – 2022

• Race and the Law Curriculum (ad hoc), 2020 – 2021

• Curriculum & Strategic Planning Committee, 2019 – 2020

VOLUNTEER & EXTERNAL SERVICE

Association of American Law Schools, Washington, D.C.

Executive Committee Member (Chair, 2024; Chair-Elect, 2023), Civil Procedure Section, 2020 – Present; Executive Committee Member, Professional Responsibility Section, 2025 – Present

Washington State Bar Association, Seattle, WA

Member, Committee on Professional Ethics, 2025 – Present

National Conference of Bar Examiners, Madison, WI

MPRE Subject Matter Expert, 2024 – Present

JOTWELL, Miami, FL

Contributing Editor, 2020 – Present

National (Pound) Civil Justice Institute, Washington, D.C.

Academic Fellow, 2020 – Present

NYU Law Alumni of Color Association, New York, NY

Executive Board Member, 2016 – 2023

City Year, New York, NY

Alumni Board Member, 2005 – 2007 & 2015 – 2019; Corps Member (Boston), 1996 – 1997

Asian American Bar Association of New York, New York, NY

Academic Committee Co-Chair, 2017 – 2019; Member, 2015 – 2019

Federal Bar Council, American Inn of Court, New Yor, NY

Member (Barrister), 2016 – 2018

ADDITIONAL RECOGNITION

Fellow, American Bar Foundation, Chicago, IL (elected 2025)

Clifford Scholar-in-Residence, DePaul College of Law, Chicago, IL (2023 – 2024)

40 Under 40 Rising Star, NYU Law Alumni of Color Association, New York, NY (2018)

MEDIA APPEARANCES

Jesse Jones, Renter Agreements, KIRO 7 News Seattle (August 1, 2024)

Will Van Sant, The Secret Plan to Strike Down US Gun Laws, Mother Jones (July 30, 2024)

Paul LaRocco, Nassau, Suffolk Conceal Court Records of Alleged Police Misconduct, Newsday (May 23, 2021)

Alexandra Lahav, Why Should I Care? A Civil Procedure Podcast (July 24, 2020)

Scott J. Bryan, City Attorney’s Name Appears in Complaint Against Leon County Judge, The Gadsden County Times (May 13, 2020)