Joy O. Siu

Joy Siu is an associate in the Antitrust and Competition Practice Group in the firm’s San Francisco office.

Areas of Practice

Joy's practice centers on complex business litigation, with an emphasis on class action, antitrust, and unfair competition issues.

Joy currently serves as the Student Liaison Chair of the UC Hastings Board of Governors. Prior to law school, Joy taught interpretation and argument, composition, and rhetoric at Carnegie Mellon University. During law school, Joy leveraged her training in persuasive writing into five best appellate brief awards as a member of the UC Hastings Moot Court Competition Team, where she also gained early courtroom experience, winning the Thomas Tang National Moot Court Competition, New York City Bar Association Regional Moot Court Competition, and David E. Snodgrass Moot Court Competition.

Honors

Northern California Rising Star, Super Lawyers, 2019

Articles

Construction Law Blog Posts

• "It’s All a Matter of [Statutory] Construction: Supreme Court Narrowly Interprets the Good Faith Dispute Exception to Prompt Payment Requirements in United Riggers & Erectors, Inc. v. Coast Iron & Steel Co." May 16, 2018 
• "'Good Faith' May Not Be Good Enough: California Supreme Court to Decide When General Contractors Can Withhold Retention," March 7, 2018 
• "Picerne Construction Corp. v. Castellino Villas (Feb. 18, 2016, C071197)," January 23, 2017

Class Action Defense Strategy Blog

• "Ninth Circuit Slams the Brakes on Nationwide Class Action Settlement; Choice of Law and Reliance Are Bumps in the Road," February 1, 2018 
• "Dancing On Their Own: The California Supreme Court’s Decision in McGill v. Citibank, N.A. that Class Action Waivers Do Not Apply to Claims for Public Injunctive Relief under California’s Consumer Protection Laws,"  April 7, 2017

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