Roman Leal

Roman Leal is a litigation associate in the San Francisco office of Munger, Tolles & Olson who focuses on matters related to digital communications technologies.

He also has experience in high-profile emergency litigation cases, both on defendant and plaintiff sides.

Roman returned to MTO as an associate after serving as law clerk to the Honorable Gabriel P. Sanchez of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He also served as a judicial intern for the Honorable James E. Boasberg of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. While in law school, he worked at MTO and another large law firm as a summer associate.

Roman earned his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he served as forum editor for the Yale Law Journal. He also served as research assistant to Yale Law School Dean Heather Gerken in her work as a member of the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court and as a teaching assistant to Professor William Eskridge. Roman’s classmates elected him Student Representative three consecutive years.

Prior to attending law school, Roman founded Evocation Coffee Roasters Company and was its CEO for 10 years, during which time it was named one of the “25 Best Coffee Roasters in America” by Men’s Journal.

Roman’s personal interests include studying programming languages, experimenting with machine-learning technologies and digitizing analog media.