Raymond Magsaysay focuses his practice on high-stakes commercial and complex litigation. Before joining Hueston Hennigan, he clerked for the Hon. Jacqueline Nguyen of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the Hon. Goodwin Liu of the Supreme Court of California. He previously represented clients in billion-dollar government contract disputes and white collar investigations at Latham & Watkins in Washington, D.C.
Mr. Magsaysay is also a published legal scholar. His scholarship, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and the Prison Industrial Complex, has been widely cited, including by the Supreme Court of California. He has presented on the topic in numerous forums, most recently at UCLA School of Law.
During law school, Mr. Magsaysay helped prosecute police misconduct cases as a legal intern in the Criminal Section of the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division and defended indigent clients in preliminary hearings and misdemeanor trials as a certified intern with the Defender Association of Philadelphia. He served as an articles editor for the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law & Social Change and was recognized as a Harry S. Truman Scholar, First-Generation Professional Fellow, and Don H. Liu Scholar. He also earned graduate certificates in Business Management from the Wharton School and in Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies from the Penn School of Arts & Sciences.
Before his legal career, Mr. Magsaysay was a Fulbright Scholar and professor at IE University in Madrid, Spain. He has experience organizing labor and teaching elementary school, as well.
Mr. Magsaysay is fluent in Filipino and Spanish.