Eliza Finley joined Susman Godfrey after completing an Equal Justice Works fellowship at the non-profit law firm Public Counsel and clerking for Judge Christina Snyder of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. She received her law degree, magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School. Before attending law school, she taught ninth-grade math in Louisiana with Teach for America. She earned her undergraduate degree from Pomona College where she double-majored in economics and gender studies.