United States Magistrate Judge Erica P. Grosjean was appointed as a United States Magistrate Judge in the Fresno Division of the Eastern District of California in October 2015. She presides over a wide variety of federal matters including employment discrimination, civil rights, ADA, social security, habeas corpus, and prisoner civil rights cases, and regularly conducts settlement conferences in all types of cases.
Prior to taking the bench, Judge Grosjean was a partner at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart and Sullivan LLP, a litigation-only law firm, working out of its New York and Los Angeles offices. Her practice specialized in structured finance, patent infringement, contract, antitrust, misappropriation, insurance, securities, unfair competition, and constitutional law. After law school, she clerked for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals under the Honorable Herbert Y.C. Choy. She is an adjunct faculty member at San Joaquin School of Law.
Education
- Harvard Law School, J.D., 2000 (cum laude, Editor of the Harvard Law Review)
- University of California at Berkeley, A.B., 1997 (with honors)
Career
- 2001–2015: Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, Los Angeles, CA and New York, NY (Partner)
- 2000–2001: Law Clerk, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Hon. Herbert Y.C. Choy