EDUCATION

California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, B.A., 2004
Loyola Law School , J.D., 2008

ADMISSION

California, 2008.

PERSONAL PROFILE

Mr. Muro was admitted to Loyola Law School and scheduled to begin life as a first year law student in the fall of 2004.  His enrollment was deferred, however, when he was notified in January of 2004 that he would be deploying to Iraq with his Army Reserve unit, the 426th Civil Affairs Battalion (Special Operations).  That fall, instead of learning about contract formation and criminal intent, Mr. Muro found himself in the middle of Iraq, supporting civil affairs missions throughout Mosul and nearby Kurdish regions.

After 10 months in Iraq as the 426th's legal non-commissioned officer, Mr. Muro returned home to Los Angeles in July of 2005 and began law school the following month.  During his third year at Loyola, he joined the school's juvenile delinquency clinic, where he represented teenagers charged with crimes ranging from battery to residential burglary.  It was through this program that Mr. Muro grew taste for the excitement of litigation.  With the ardent support of his supervisors, he took a double-felony to trial and was able to get both charges against his client dismissed the day after he graduated from law school.

Mr. Muro joined Nelson Griffin as a law clerk in the spring of 2007.  He lives in Santa Monica.