Celeste M. Leung is an associate attorney in Pettit Kohn Ingrassia Lutz & Dolin’s San Diego office, where she focuses her practice on the defense of employers in all aspects of employment litigation.

Celeste earned her Juris Doctor from California Western School of Law. While attending law school, she served as Vice President of Cal Western’s Employment and Labor Law Society and President of the Public Interest Law Foundation. Celeste also externed for the Hon. Karen S. Crawford, U.S. District Court, Southern District of California and interned with two organizations focusing on employment law. She had the opportunity to work in both the Worker Rights and Fair Labor Section and the Employment and Administrative Mandate Section in the Office of the Attorney General in the California Department of Justice as well as the National Labor Relations Board in the Office of the Executive Secretary, where she reviewed representation appeal cases. Celeste also interned at Legal Aid Society of San Diego in the self-help clinic for unlawful detainers, restraining orders, gender marker, and name change forms.

Prior to law school, Celeste obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree in Labor Studies and Employment at San Francisco State University.