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Rachel Thompson

Rachel Thompson

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Rachel Thompson

Los Angeles

(310) 789-3100

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Overview

Rachel joined Susman Godfrey after clerking for Chief Judge Priscilla Richman of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and Judge Karin J. Immergut of the United States District Court for the District of Oregon.

Rachel earned her J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, where she was an executive editor of the California Law Review, a senior editor of the Berkeley Technology Law Journal, and a teaching assistant for Written and Oral Advocacy and Law, Technology, and Writing. Rachel also served as a research assistant in the areas of federal and California constitutional law and externed for Justice Leondra R. Kruger of the Supreme Court of California.

Before law school, Rachel earned her master’s degree in Comparative Media Studies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Rachel completed her undergraduate education at Harvard University, graduating cum laude with high honors in Social Anthropology and Comparative Literature.

Clerkships

  • Honorable Priscilla Richman , United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
  • Honorable Karin J. Immergut , United States District Court for the District of Oregon
  • Honorable Leondra R. Kruger, Supreme Court of California, Judicial Extern

Education

Education

  • The University of California at Berkeley, School of Law (J.D., Pro Bono Honors with Highest Distinction)
    • Executive Editor, California Law Review
    • Order of the Coif
    • American Jurisprudence Award 2020 Fall: Evidence
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (S.M., Comparative Media Studies)
  • Harvard University (A.B., cum laude, Social Anthropology joint Comparative Literature)
    • Departmental High Honors

Admissions

Admissions

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  • California

Publications

  • Booking.com and the Shrinking Hyperlinguistic Commons, 36 Berk. Tech. L.J. 1473 (2021).
  • The Slow Shutdown: Information and Internet Regulation in Tanzania from 2010–2018 and Impacts upon Online Content Creators, co-author, in the International Journal of Communication, Aug. 2020.

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