Tanner Laiche joined Susman Godfrey after clerking for Judge Richard C. Tallman on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.  He graduated Order of the Coif from UCLA School of Law, where he was a Michael T. Masin Scholar, Graduate Assistant Tutor, and managing editor of the UCLA Law Review.  Prior to attending law school, Tanner worked in residential construction for his father’s building and remodeling company, and also worked as an elementary-school science teacher in Arkansas with Teach for America.  Tanner received his undergraduate degree magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Oregon.