NPLA and Stanford PLA Featured in Stanford Lawyer

The National Plaintiffs’ Law Association (NPLA) and the Stanford Law School PLA were recently featured in a Stanford Lawyer article titled Raising the Plaintiffs’ Bar by Monica Schreiber. The article highlights the growing interest in plaintiffs’ side work among law students at Stanford Law School and nationwide, featuring quotes from co-president of the Stanford PLA, Lisa Qian:

Qian, co-president of the Stanford Plaintiffs Law Association (SPLA), says there are a host of  reasons for choosing to practice on the “left side of the v”: “At plaintiffs’ firms, you’re typically in court, writing substantive motions, doing depositions, and getting real responsibility in your first year—not five years into being an associate,” she says. Qian plans to spend the coming summer working at three different plaintiffs’ firms—all of which have Stanford Law alums among their attorney ranks.

NPLA Creative Director, Julia Gokhberg, a recent graduate of Stanford Law School, was also interviewed for the article:

“There were about 10 schools with PLAs when we launched the NPLA and now, just over a year later, we are easily at 50,” says Gokhberg, an associate in the Austin, Texas office of plaintiffs’ firm Reid Collins & Tsai. “There has been massive growth and interest from the students’ side. At the same time, NPLA also serves as a resource to law school career services offices and plaintiffs’ firms, which now have great opportunities in front of them. Some of that requires thinking differently about recruiting and training students out of law school, and we are helping to facilitate that with online career fairs and other initiatives.”

To read the full article, click here.