Professor of Practice Alysson Snow Elected to Lemon Grove City Council

SAN DIEGO (December 8, 2022) – University of San Diego (USD) School of Law Professor of Practice, Alysson Snow, was recently elected to the Lemon Grove City Council. Professor Snow leads the Housing Rights Project at the USD School of Law Legal Clinics.

Professor Snow’s campaign focused on finding solutions to the homelessness problem in Lemon Grove, an issue with which she is intimately familiar. She also promised to end the squabbling for which the Lemon Grove city council has become increasingly known. It is Professor Snow’s first time holding elected office.

Read more about Professor Snow’s new position here.

About Professor of Practice Alysson Snow 

Professor Snow leads the USD Legal Clinic’s new Housing Rights Project which is dedicated to providing education, outreach, and direct client representation to serve the legal needs of low-income and undocumented tenants facing housing instability and homelessness. Professor Snow previously led and directed the Consumer Protection Division at the Legal Aid Society of San Diego, Inc. and served on the firm’s Leadership Committee. She has extensive litigation experience, having successfully represented more than a thousand consumer and housing clients. She designed and launched two debt defense clinics and San Diego’s bankruptcy self-help center and clinic. Before Legal Aid, Professor Snow worked for six years at DLA Piper, specializing in pharmaceutical and securities defense litigation.

About the University of San Diego School of Law

Each year, USD educates approximately 800 Juris Doctor and graduate law students from throughout the United States and around the world. The law school is best known for its offerings in the areas of business and corporate law, constitutional law, intellectual property, international and comparative law, public interest law and taxation.

USD School of Law is one of the 84 law schools elected to the Order of the Coif, a national honor society for law school graduates. The law school’s faculty is a strong group of outstanding scholars and teachers with national and international reputations and currently ranks 30th nationally among U.S. law faculties in scholarly impact and 28th nationally in past-year faculty downloads on the Social Sciences Research Network (SSRN). The school is accredited by the American Bar Association and is a member of the Association of American Law Schools. Founded in 1954, the law school is part of the University of San Diego, a private, independent, Roman Catholic university chartered in 1949.