Clinic Fellow
jlynch [at] law.berkeley.edu
J.D., University of California, Berkeley
B.A., Art Practice and Legal Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Jennifer Lynch is the Clinic Fellow at the Samuelson Law, Technology, & Public Policy Clinic at U.C. Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law. Jennifer comes to the Clinic from the law firm of Bingham McCutchen in San Francisco where she represented clients in disputes involving antitrust, telecomm, trade secret, workers compensation and contracts issues. While at the firm, Jennifer also did significant pro bono federal civil rights litigation work on behalf of women subjected to improper medical care while incarcerated in the California prison system. Prior to working at Bingham McCutchen, Jennifer clerked for the Honorable A. Howard Matz in the United States District Court for the Central District of California in Los Angeles.
Jennifer received her undergraduate degree in Art Practice and Legal Studies with high honors from the University of California, Berkeley and received her law degree from Boalt, where she graduated Order of the Coif. While at Boalt, Jennifer was an editor on the Berkeley Technology Law Journal, and externed for the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California in San Francisco and the Honorable Edward M. Chen in the Northern District of California. Jennifer’s research interests fall into two areas. First, she is writing on the constraints state sovereign immunity places on discovery practices in federal civil rights litigation. She is also exploring how to map traditional legal norms onto new technology and the Internet and has written on defamation on the Internet and on crime control methods and their effectiveness in combating identity theft in cyberspace (see 20 Berkeley Tech. L.J. 259 (2005)) (cited in State v. Leyda, 138 P.3d 610, 621 (Wash. 2006)). Jennifer is admitted to practice law in all state courts in California and in federal court in the Central, Eastern and Northern Districts of California.