Jennifer Chou

Jennifer Chou is an assistant United States attorney with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Central District of California, where she has prosecuted crimes involving large-scale gang investigations, RICO, drug and firearms trafficking, kidnapping, murder-for-hire and other violent crimes, cyberstalking, child exploitation, hate crimes, public corruption and bank fraud. She currently serves as the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) coordinator for the office. Previously, she has served as a supervisor for rookie prosecutors and as a coordinator for the USAO’s law student extern program.

Prior to joining the USAO, she clerked for the Honorable Barry G. Silverman on the Ninth Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals, as well as worked as a litigator at Latham & Watkins and as an attorney on Hillary Rodham Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign. She obtained her undergraduate, master’s and law degrees from Stanford University. She teaches trial advocacy at the USC Gould School of Law.

FACULTY IN THE NEWS

Fox News Los Angeles affiliate KTTV-TV
January 16, 2019
Re: Camille Gear Rich

Camille Gear Rich was interviewed about the university's Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Week. "Everyone has some issue of difference that they're negotiating," said Gear Rich. "if we can use those things as a bridge to start having these broader conversations, then everyone feels included and feels like they have something to offer."

RECENT SCHOLARSHIP

Dorothy S. Lund
November, 2018

"Sexual Harassment and Corporate Law", Berkeley Sustainable Business and Investment Forum Academic Roundtable, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA.

Daniel Klerman
November, 2018

“Contingent Fees and Access to Justice,” Faculty Colloquium, Notre Dame Law School, Notre Dame, IN.

Daniel Klerman
November, 2018

"Contingent Fees and Access to Justice" (with Eric Helland), Civil Procedure Workshop, Stanford Law School, Palo Alto, CA.