Marc Julian R. Vasquez

Associate

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    Marc Julian R. Vasquez is an Associate in GRSM’s Employment Law practice group at the San Francisco office. Marc defends large corporations, small businesses, non-profits, universities, and hospitals against claims of wrongful termination, discrimination, retaliation (under the Fair Employment and Housing Act and the Labor Code), harassment, failure to accommodate, alleged wage and hour violations, and Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) violations.

    Marc joined the firm in 2022 as a summer law clerk and then as a post-bar law clerk in 2023 after earning his J.D. at the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco (known as “UC Law SF”; formerly UC Hastings).

    As a law student, Marc interned for Judge William J. Monahan of the Superior Court of California, Santa Clara County, and externed for Senior Judge Charles R. Breyer of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. He also competed and coached on the UC Law SF Moot Court Team (which is ranked as the top moot court team in the nation), served as a member of the Moot Court Board, and worked as a Teaching Assistant for the Legal Research and Writing Department for several semesters.

    Admissions

    • California

    Community Involvement

    • Secretary, Northern California Nevada Conference, United Church of Christ
    • Vice Moderator, Golden Gate Association, United Church of Christ
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    Education

    J.D., University of California College of the Law, San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings), 2023

    • Witkin and CALI Awards (highest grade) for Legal Research and Writing 1
    • Witkin and CALI Awards (highest grade) for Legal Research and Writing 2 
    • Regional and National Champion, ABA National Appellate Advocacy Competition
    • National Champion, Dean Jerome Prince Memorial Evidence Competition

    B.A., summa cum laude, English (minor in Digital Humanities), University of California, Berkeley, 2019

    • Phi Beta Kappa
    • Dennis Lamb Prize for best English honors thesis (“On Fairness and Being Just: The Case of Percy Bysshe Shelley”)
    • Chauncey Wetmore Wells Critical Essay Prize, Honorable Mention for “Enter the Law: Doors, Law, and Mediation in Kafka’s The Trial"
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