Felipe De Jesús Hernández

Felipe De Jesús Hernández is a litigation associate in the Los Angeles office of Munger, Tolles & Olson who works on matters related to complex business litigation, investigations, bankruptcy and appeals across multiple private sectors.

Felipe also maintains a robust pro-bono practice where he works with a broad coalition of organizations handling some of the most high-profile matters related to civil rights violations in California prisons, advocating for the end of the death penalty in California, accountability for maintaining inadequate juvenile detention centers and police accountability reform. He also handles immigration-related cases and appeals.

Prior to joining the firm, Felipe was a Harvard Law Review Fellow in the MacArthur Justice Center’s Appellate and Supreme Court Program, where he brought constitutional appeals and cert petitions to end solitary confinement.

At Harvard Law School, Felipe was recognized with the Justice Cruz Reynoso Community Service Award and the Irving Oberman Memorial Writing Prize for Law & Social Change. He was named Law Scholar of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund. He served as managing editor for the Harvard BlackLetter Law Journal and executive editor of online content for the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. He was a student attorney and co-director of the Family Law Practice Group at the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, a board member of the Harvard Law Defenders and a founding board member of the First Class Law Students Association.

He previously worked on educational equity and policy at Improve Your Tomorrow Inc. and at the California State Senate.

In 2023, he was appointed to serve on the Criminal Justice Act Appellate Panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and, in 2024, he was appointed to serve on the CJA panel for the Sixth Circuit.