Two UC Hastings law students – Maleeha Ghaznavi ’23 and Zoë Grimaldi ’24 – have won prestigious Peggy Browning fellowships and are spending their summers fighting for worker rights, at a law firm and union headquarters. The labor law-focused fellowships are highly competitive, drawing 650 student applications this year.
Ghaznavi is working as a law clerk at Neyhart, Anderson, Flynn & Grosboll in San Francisco, which specializes in labor law. There, she researches and writes legal memos on union-related labor law and trust fund issues, including withdrawal liability, benefits compliance, and wage and hour requirements.
Ghaznavi, a Northern California native, has a deep commitment to public interest work. Last summer, she volunteered with the Workers’ Rights Clinic at the San Francisco-based nonprofit Legal Aid at Work. She also had stints volunteering with the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office and Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County. This past spring, she participated in the UC Hastings Mediation Clinic, where she gained “insight into the pros and cons of neutrality, especially when faced with power imbalances between parties.”
After earning a bachelor’s degree in psychology, Ghaznavi worked at a small law firm, which sparked her interest in employment law and led her pursue a J.D. at UC Hastings. “With my love for San Francisco and the fact that the school allowed me to stay close to home, along with the school’s emphasis on close community, it felt...
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