About Melissa
Melissa Morgan completed her legal education at the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, earning a Juris Doctor in 2020. She entered law school after finishing a Bachelor of Science in Legal Studies with a minor in Criminal Justice at California State University, Chico in 2017. Her academic path combined doctrinal coursework with practical training.
Her time at McGeorge overlapped with hands-on legal work. While in law school she held internships and clerkships that exposed her to a range of legal settings. Those experiences complemented classroom study and gave her early familiarity with both client-facing work and institutional legal processes.
Morgan’s practical legal training began before law school when she worked as a paralegal intern at the Community Legal Information Center in 2015. That role involved intake work, assisting with client outreach and supporting attorneys on community-centered matters. In 2019 she served as a law clerk at Legal Services of Northern California, where she contributed to research and client briefings in civil legal aid contexts.
In 2020 she spent time in the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Office of Legal Affairs as a legal intern. There she observed how public agency legal teams manage administrative and corrections-related matters. The internship added a public-sector perspective to her background and deepened her familiarity with regulatory and institutional issues.
She joined Curtis Legal Group as a lawyer in 2021. At the firm she took on responsibilities common to junior attorneys, including drafting pleadings, conducting legal research, preparing for hearings and working directly with clients. Her role at Curtis Legal Group has involved both courtroom preparation and client counseling in state-level matters.
Morgan remains involved in the professional and student-lawyer communities. She is a member of Phi Alpha Delta and served as the organization’s vice-president while in law school. That leadership experience included organizing events and mentoring students navigating law school and bar preparation.
Her background spans civil legal aid, public-sector legal work and private practice. She combines research and courtroom experience with a grounding in criminal justice issues from her undergraduate studies. She currently practices at Curtis Legal Group in California, where her work reflects her background in criminal justice and civil legal services.
