Mary Tran is an associate in the Litigation group. She earned her J.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law, with a specialization in Public Interest Law and Policy, where she received both the UCLA Law Achievement Fellowship and the APABA Public Interest Fellowship.
Mary is a strong advocate for foster youth and special education rights. During law school, she worked at the Lanterman Special Education Clinic, and she has been a part of the Foster Care Legal Network since 2019.
Mary earned her B.S. in Human Biology and Society from UCLA, with minors in Disability Studies and Asian Languages. She also conducted neurobiology research in the Silva Lab at the David Geffen School of Medicine.
Publications
- “A Locus Coeruleus-dorsal CA1 Dopaminergic Circuit Modulates Memory Linking,” Neuron (2022)
Practice Areas
Education
University of California, Los Angeles School of Law (J.D., 2025); Masin Family Academic Excellence Gold Award for Legal Research and Writing
University of California, Los Angeles (B.S., Human Biology and Society, 2022), summa cum laude
Admissions
- California
Languages
- Vietnamese
