Gender Issues in the Practice of Law

Faculty

Hon. Anne-Christine Massullo, Judge for the Superior Court of San Francisco County
Justice Teri L. Jackson, Associate Justice of the Court of Appeal
Michelle Ybarra, Keker Van Nest & Peters
Megan O'Neill, DTO Law
Erin Meyer, Keker Van Nest & Peters
Krysta Kauble Pachman, Susman Godfrey

Hon. Anne-Christine Massullo is a Judge for the Superior Court of San Francisco County. in Complex Civil Litigation. Prior to her appointment in 2006, she practiced law at several national law firms until she joined the U.S. Attorney Office where she handled civil and criminal cases.

Justice Teri L. Jackson is an Associate Justice of the Court of Appeal, First Appellate District, Division Three. Judge Jackson was the first African-American woman ever appointed to the San Francisco County Superior Court when she was appointed by Gov. Gray Davis in 2002. Prior to joining the bench, Justice Jackson was of counsel at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP from 1997 to 2002.

Krysta Kauble Pachman is a Partner at Susman Godfrey where she represents plaintiffs and defendants in high-stakes commercial litigation, including class actions, patent cases, copyright matters, and other disputes. She has successfully litigated on behalf of and against some of the largest companies in the world.

Erin Meyer focuses her practice at Keker Van Nest & Peters on high-stakes, complex litigation, including challenging employment and consumer class actions, commercial disputes, and criminal cases. A Partner at the firm, Erin has significant trial experience including several cases that have garnered national attention. Erin received her A.B., from Duke University and her J.D. from Yale Law School.

Megan O'Neill is a founder of DTO Law, where she focuses her practice on high-stakes litigation. She has a specialized focus in the class action arena. She regularly defends Fortune 500 companies in consumer class actions alleging unfair competition, false advertising, and other claims. Prior to founding DTO, Megan was a litigator at Quinn Emanuel. Megan is graduate of Stanford Law School.

Michelle Ybarra is a Partner at Keker Van Nest & Peters, where she focuses on intellectual property, class action, and legal malpractice disputes spanning the sharing economy, cybersecurity, and gaming industries, among others. She has also effected sweeping changes through her pro bono work, including challenging California’s Proposition 8 on behalf of individual married plaintiffs, and representing a San Quentin death row inmate in a successful Administrative Procedures Act challenge to California’s lethal injection protocol, which stayed executions in California.  Michelle received her B.A. from Harvard and her J.D. from University of Chicago.