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STEPHEN M. MURPHY is a sole practitioner in San
Francisco where he represents employees in civil rights
litigation. He is certified as a civil trial specialist by the National
Board of Trial Advocacy (NBTA) and is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocacy (ABOTA).
A Boston native, he graduated from Boston Latin School,
the oldest public school in the country, and the College of the Holy Cross,
a Jesuit liberal arts college in Worcester, Massachusetts. After serving
on Law Review and graduating with honors from the University of San Francisco
School of Law, he worked as law clerk to the justices of the New Hampshire
Superior Court, where one of his supervising judges was current United
States Supreme Court Justice David Souter.
He returned to San Francisco in 1982 as an associate with
Bianco, Brandi & Jones. In 1988 he became a partner and in 1992 started
Bianco & Murphy with Robert L. Bianco before opening his own firm
in 1999.
For many years Mr. Murphy has been devoted to teaching
law at all levels, and in particular demystifying the law for lay people.
He helped found the Barristers Club Speakers-in-the-Schools and the Day
in Court programs, both dedicated to educating children about the law.
In 1988 and again in 1999, the Bar Association of San Francisco awarded him
its Award of Merit for his "singular contribution to the public and
legal community."
He has taught classes and seminars in litigation to lawyers,
law students, paralegals, and legal secretaries. A regular contributor
of articles to legal newspapers and magazines, he is co-author of CEB's
Wrongful Employment Termination Practice. He has also contributed to the
education of his fellow attorneys by editing several legal journals. In
1985 he was one of the founding editors of the award-winning Barrister
Law Journal and for many years served as editor of San Francisco Attorney Magazine.
He currently serves as editor-in-chief of the SFTLA Trial Lawyer.
JEREMY GRAHAM has been an associate of the firm since
April of 2006. A graduate of the University of California at Berkeley,
in 2004 he received his J.D. Magna Cum Laude from Hastings College of the Law.
While at Hastings Mr. Graham served on the Hastings Law Journal and externed
at the California Court of Appeal, First District. Before coming to the Law Offices
of Stephen M. Murphy, Mr. Graham worked at Rudy, Exelrod and Zieff, L.L.P.
representing plaintiffs in both individual and class action employment cases.
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