Emily Chan, a contributor to the Nonprofit Law Blog and legal assistant with The Law Firm of Gene Takagi, is a recent graduate of the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco. She will be joining the firm full-time as an associate in the fall. While at Hastings, Emily competed and served as a board member for both the UC Hastings Negotiation and Mediation Team and the UC Hastings Moot Court Competition Team. Emily was also a Senior Production Editor of the UC Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly.
Emily received the Hastings Moot Court Best Oral Argument award in Spring 2008 and Hastings David E. Snodgrass Best Oral Advocacy award in Spring 2009. She also competed in the Robert F. Wagner National Labor and Employment Law Moot Court Competition 2009 (Best Oral Advocate, Preliminary Round), and the International Academy of Dispute Resolution Mediation Competition 2009 (2nd Place Team, Mediation).
Emily holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Rhetoric and Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from the University of California, Berkeley.