Meet our Law Student Board

  • CO-PRESIDENT

    Yusuf is a 3L at UC Law San Francisco, and currently works as a Law Clerk at Gibbs Law Group LLP, a plaintiff-side class action firm focusing on consumer protection class actions. He spent his 2L Summer at Gibbs Law Group, where he plans to return after graduation, and his 1L Summer at Walkup, Melodia, Kelly, & Schoenberger, where he worked on personal injury and mass torts cases. Prior to attending law school, Yusuf worked as a litigation assistant at a personal injury firm in Santa Monica, including working closely on a case that resulted in the largest jury verdict in Monterey County history. Yusuf received his bachelor's degree from UC Berkeley with a double major in Rhetoric and French. During undergrad, he worked as a legal intern for a plaintiff-side firm in Atlanta, Georgia, where he handled insurance claims and pre-litigation medical records requests for personal injury cases and attended dozens of mediations and depositions. In his free time, he enjoys reading, playing Magic the Gathering, lifting, and spending time with his cat.

  • CO-PRESIDENT

    Brennan is a 3L at Texas Law. He is the Co-Founder of Texas Law’s Plaintiffs’ Advocacy & Litigation Society (PALS) and regularly assists other law students in founding plaintiff-friendly organizations at their respective law schools. Brennan also serves as a member on Texas Law Review, competes in interscholastic moot court competitions, and assists Professor Theodore Rave with research on Multidistrict Litigation. As a 1L, Brennan worked in plaintiff-side employment law at Kaplan Law Firm and then split his summer on the defense side at Morgan Lewis & Bockius before returning to plaintiff-side representation working on mass tort and catastrophic injury cases at Arnold & Itkin. Brennan split his 2L summer between Arnold & Itkin’s mass torts practice, Burns Charest’s plaintiff-side antitrust, consumer protection, and environmental practices, and Susman Godfrey’s commercial litigation practice (where he plans to return after graduation). He is an expert-level USCF chess player and an avid punk rock enthusiast.

  • EXECUTIVE FINANCE DIRECTOR

    Ellen Teuscher is a 2L at Harvard Law from The Woodlands, Texas. She graduated in 2020 from the University of Texas at Austin with a B.A. in Government and Humanities. Before law school, Ellen worked at a political digital advertising and public affairs agency. At HLS, she is the President of the Harvard Plaintiffs’ Law Association, Communications Chair for Lamba, and Social Media & Graphics Chair for the Alliance for Reproductive Justice. She is also involved with the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology, the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, and the Cyberlaw Clinic. This past summer Ellen worked at Finkelstein Blankinship Frei-Pearson & Garber, a plaintiff-side firm in New York representing consumers, employees, and others who have been harmed by corporate greed and unlawful practices. In her (limited) free time she loves to read and attend concerts in the greater Boston area!

  • EXECUTIVE DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR

    Madeline Love, a Tennessee native, is a 2L at Texas Law and is a current Co-President of Texas Law’s Plaintiffs’ Advocacy & Litigation Society (PALS), Deans’ Fellow, and civil procedure teaching assistant. Madeline received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville in Political Science: Law and Courts with a minor in Philosophy. During her 1L summer, Madeline worked as a judicial intern for the Honorable Lee H. Rosenthal of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas and as a law clerk in Arnold & Itkin’s mass tort and catastrophic injury practice. Next summer, Madeline plans to split her time between Arnold & Itkin and Burns Charest in their plaintiffs’ side litigation practice. Before law school, Madeline spent her time teaching swim lessons and working for the American Red Cross and the City of Knoxville as a program coordinator for water safety programming. Madeline is an avid “pet person” (both a dog person and cat person), and loves baking for any and every occasion.

  • EXECUTIVE MEMBERSHIP DIRECTOR

    Doug Snyder is the son of a Buckalew Elementary School teacher and a U.S. Navy Mustang. He was raised in New Orleans and the Houston suburbs, then attended the University of Texas at Austin, majoring in Government and Information Systems with a minor in Classics. Before law school, Doug worked in political data strategy for state parties and was the Legislative Director for a Texas State Representative, focusing on education and juvenile justice policy with an eye toward expanding restorative justice programs. Doug is now a 2L at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and is also pursuing an M.B.E. at the Perelman School of Medicine. He is involved with the Mock Trial Team, the Jewish Law Student Association, and the University of Pennsylvania Law Review.

    Doug loves classic movies, crossword puzzles, and exploring Philadelphia’s many historical sights. After spending his first summer as a clerk at Kline & Specter, a medical malpractice firm in Philadelphia, he’ll be joining (working for) fellow NPLA co-founder Laura Shannon at Keller Postman this summer.

  • PROGRAMMING DIRECTOR

    Michael is a 3L at Boston University where he is the President and Co-Founder of the BU Plaintiffs’ Law Association, Treasurer and Secretary of the Employment & Labor Law Student Association, and Editor of the Public Interest Law Journal. He competed in the Client Counseling Competition in which he was the 2023 BU Champion, and he also competes on the Moot Court Team (Stone 2023 Competition, Best Brief Award Recipient; Albers 2024 Competition). Michael spent his previous Summer working at Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP and is currently working as a Legal Extern in the Office of Enforcement for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Attorney Board Members

  • ATTORNEY BOARD PRESIDENT

    Laura Shannon is an attorney at Keller Postman where she works on cases involving complex plaintiff-side litigation. She received her J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School, where she participated in the Federal Criminal Justice Clinic, is the Topic Access and Recruitment Editor on The Law Review, and founded the Chicago Plaintiffs’ Law Association. Outside of work and NPLA, Laura teaches group fitness classes at Pure Barre. She received her undergraduate degree in Philosophy from Northeastern University in 2018. 


    Prior to law school, Laura worked as a paralegal at a large defense firm. Despite enjoying the work and finding it substantively interesting, she struggled to square her progressive values with her day-to-day role in helping corporations avoid accountability. This experience sparked her passion for plaintiff-side advocacy. Laura is a founding board member of the NPLA and served as its first President.


  • EXECUTIVE CREATIVE DIRECTOR

    Julia received her J.D. from Stanford Law School with Pro Bono distinction in 2024. At law school, Julia was the Symposium Editor of the Stanford Law Review Vol. 76, Co-President of SLS First Generation & Low-Income Professionals (FLI), Events and Communications Chair of SLS Plaintiffs’ Lawyers Association (PLA), and the John Hart Ely Prize recipient for Outstanding Performance in Employment Discrimination. During law school, she was a summer associate at several prominent plaintiffs’ firms including Reid Collins. Before attending law school, she was the Employees’ Rights Litigation Manager for a plaintiffs’-side employment discrimination boutique in New York City. Julia is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Swarthmore College where she obtained her B.A. in Economics and Political Science and was captain of the women’s tennis team. She is also on the founding board of the National Plaintiffs’ Law Association.