
Allison Day (she/her/hers) is a litigation associate in the San Francisco office of Munger, Tolles & Olson.
Ms. Day is an experienced case manager who handles complex civil litigation for technology companies, regulated industries and higher education institutions.
For her clients in the technology industry, she focuses on complex contract disputes. She provides pre-litigation advice and manages all aspects of fast-paced litigation in this area. Through this work, she has significant experience translating complex transactions and expert opinions into clear narratives for presentation to judges and juries.
In the regulated industries space, Ms. Day concentrates on the unique challenges faced in the transportation and energy sectors. She has experience representing those clients at the trial and appellate levels in both federal and state court. Her work in this area often involves writing briefs addressing complex regulatory schemes and legal issues.
Ms. Day’s work for higher education clients is on litigation related to admission practices. She has represented The Regents of the University of California in defending against multiple state court actions and recently drafted an amicus brief for the President and Chancellors of the University of California that was submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court opposing a challenge to the consideration of race as a factor in university admissions. Ms. Day has also presented on the impact of the Supreme Court’s 2023 decision on that issue, appearing on a panel before the National Association for Law Placement.
Before attending law school, Ms. Day taught high school math in Washington, D.C., as part of the Teach For America program. Her pro bono practice reflects her ongoing commitment to students and immigrant communities, including representing Native American students seeking access to adequate public education and a detained individual seeking immigration relief in appellate and habeas proceedings. She is also a member of the advisory board for OneJustice.
Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Day served as a law clerk to Judge Susan L. Carney of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Judge Carol Bagley Amon of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
Experience
- The President and Chancellors of the University of California in an amicus brief before the U.S. Supreme Court opposing a challenge to the use of race as a factor in university admissions.
- The Regents of the University of California in
- defeating a lawsuit that sought to require the university to disclose individualized race and academic data of every student who had applied or attended the university over a dozen-year period.
- a lawsuit alleging the university’s use of SAT and ACT scores in undergraduate admissions discriminated against students on the basis of race and disability.
- Plains All American Pipeline in federal and state litigation following the pipeline failure and subsequent oil spill into the Pacific Ocean near Refugio State Beach.
- A multinational technology company in an expedited arbitration involving a complex series of contract and accounting disputes.
- A major freight railroad in obtaining an injunction on preemption grounds protecting a construction project in a key interstate corridor and successfully defending the injunction on appeal.
Education
- Yale Law School (J.D., 2015) editor-in-chief, Yale Journal of International Law; Coker Fellow; Supreme Court Advocacy Clinic
- American University (M.A., 2012)
- UC Berkeley (B.A., 2010) Phi Beta Kappa
Clerkships
- Judge Susan L. Carney, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, 2016-2017
- Judge Carol Bagley Amon, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York, 2015-2016
Bar Admissions
- California
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of California
- U.S. District Court, Central District of California
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Experience
- The President and Chancellors of the University of California in an amicus brief before the U.S. Supreme Court opposing a challenge to the use of race as a factor in university admissions.
- The Regents of the University of California in
- defeating a lawsuit that sought to require the university to disclose individualized race and academic data of every student who had applied or attended the university over a dozen-year period.
- a lawsuit alleging the university’s use of SAT and ACT scores in undergraduate admissions discriminated against students on the basis of race and disability.
- Plains All American Pipeline in federal and state litigation following the pipeline failure and subsequent oil spill into the Pacific Ocean near Refugio State Beach.
- A multinational technology company in an expedited arbitration involving a complex series of contract and accounting disputes.
- A major freight railroad in obtaining an injunction on preemption grounds protecting a construction project in a key interstate corridor and successfully defending the injunction on appeal.
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Education
- Yale Law School (J.D., 2015) editor-in-chief, Yale Journal of International Law; Coker Fellow; Supreme Court Advocacy Clinic
- American University (M.A., 2012)
- UC Berkeley (B.A., 2010) Phi Beta Kappa
Clerkships
- Judge Susan L. Carney, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, 2016-2017
- Judge Carol Bagley Amon, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York, 2015-2016
Bar Admissions
- California
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of California
- U.S. District Court, Central District of California
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit