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Leila Knox is a litigation associate with Cooper, White & Cooper LLP, focusing her practice on business, intellectual property, media, telecommunications, and employment law. Ms. Knox graduated in 2006 from UC Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco, where she was senior articles editor for the Hastings Race & Poverty Law Journal and vice president of the Association of Communications, Sports and Entertainment Law. Ms. Knox published a note in the Hastings Communications and Entertainment Law Journal (Comm/Ent) titled The Reporter’s Privilege: The Necessity of a Federal Shield Law Thirty Years After Branzburg. She was recognized with awards for excellence for her work in seminars on media law and end of life healthcare decisionmaking. At Hastings, Ms. Knox served as a teaching assistant to legal writing and moot court classes and performed research for the latest edition of Professor John Diamond’s torts case book. During her summers in law school, Ms. Knox worked first at the Prison Law Office in San Rafael and then at Cooper. Prior to law school, Ms. Knox was a news reporter, working for a newspaper and then a radio station in Telluride, Colorado, before moving to San Luis Obispo, where she worked at a Knight Ridder daily paper. Ms. Knox also has written for publications such as The Denver Post, the Christian Science Monitor, and Couloir magazine. She holds a B.A. in technical journalism, with minors in sociology and political science, from Colorado State University. | 