PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Elizabeth Piliavin-Godwin joined the firm in November 2003. She has an extensive background in post-conviction litigation at both the state and federal level. Ms. Piliavin-Godwin represents clients in habeas corpus litigation, criminal law and civil litigation.

EXPERIENCE
Elizabeth Piliavin-Godwin is a 1993 graduate of the University of California, Berkeley and a 1997 graduate of New York University School of Law. During law school, she was a judicial extern for the Honorable Robert Levy, Federal Magistrate Judge for the Eastern District of New York, and served as editor and Senior Articles Editor for the New York University Review of Law & Social Change.

After graduation from law school, Ms. Piliavin-Godwin received the Judy Clarke fellowship from the Center for Capital Litigation in Columbia, South Carolina, and began representing clients in capital post-conviction proceedings. In 1998, Ms. Piliavin-Godwin joined the Office of the Federal Public Defender for the Central District of California where she acted as a research attorney and co-authored RECAP, a nationally distributed newsletter for attorneys with capitally sentenced clients.

EDUCATION

• New York University School of Law (J.D. 1997)
• University of California-Berkeley (B.A. 1993, High Honors with Distinction, Sociology). Double-Minor: African-American Studies and Ethnic Studies. Phi Beta Kappa.

BAR ADMISSIONS

• California State Bar
• United States District Court, Northern District of California
• United States District Court, Central District of California
• United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Court

PUBLICATIONS

• "Batson: Then and Now, Part I" (with John H. Blume), 10 South Carolina Lawyer 20 (Sept/Oct 1998).
• "Batson: Then and Now, Part II" (with John H. Blume), 10 South Carolina Lawyer 20 (Nov/Dec 1998).