Courtney Liss is an associate in Lieff Cabraser’s San Francisco office practicing in the firm’s Antitrust and Securities groups. Prior to joining Lieff Cabraser, Courtney was a trial associate at a midsize trial boutique in San Francisco and a clerk to the Honorable Judge Gabriel P. Sanchez on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Courtney earned her J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School, where she served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Michigan Journal of Race & Law, as a legal extern to the Washtenaw County Michigan Prosecutor’s Office, to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Central District of California, and as a student attorney representing children in the Juvenile Justice Clinic. Before attending law school, she served on the government affairs and communication teams at the nonpartisan, nonprofit Partnership for Public Service in Washington, D.C. Courtney earned her B.A. in history and political science from Tulane University. She has been named among Newcomb Magazine’s 30 Under 30.

Courtney, a Vietnamese American, first generation college graduate and professional, is dedicated to enhancing access to opportunities for individuals from underrepresented groups, including by serving as a board member for the Public Leadership Education Network (PLEN), as a mentor for first year law students through the Leadership Council for Legal Diversity, and as a volunteer in the Asian Law Caucus’s Workers’ Rights Clinic.