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Justine is a member of the firm's appellate practice group. Her previous legal experience includes researching civil and criminal cases for the Honorable Saundra Brown Armstrong of the United States District Court, Northern District of California. She was involved in a petition of writ of mandate addressing teacher credentialing denial and conducted research in administrative law as a law clerk for the California State Department of Justice. Justine also worked with the San Francisco City Attorney's Office, where she researched dangerous conditions of public property and accident reconstruction. As a research assistant at Goldfarb & Lipman, Justine investigated local government financing initiatives in affordable housing for an American Bar Association practitioner guide. Justine received her J.D. from the University of San Francisco School of Law. During law school, she was the co-chair of the Public Interest Law Foundation and chapter co-founder of the American Constitution Society. She wrote a comment for the Law Review titled From Farm to Table: How This Little Piggy was Dragged Through the Market, a law and economics perspective of the United States Department of Agriculture's regulation of the meat industry and in relation to Mad Cow Disease. Justine also served as an articles editor for the Journal of Law and Social Challenges.Justine completed the paralegal professional program in 2002 from Northeastern University and graduated magna cum laude in May 2001 from Ithaca College, where she received her B.A. in economics and a minor in French. Active in college, Justine participated in several honors societies, including Phi Kappa Phi, Pi Delta Phi and Omicron Delta Epsilon; worked as a teaching assistant in economics and French and studied abroad for a semester in London, England. Justine was also a recipient of the Rotary Youth Exchange Scholarship. | 