Legal

Janson Wu
Staff Attorney

Janson Wu joined GLAD’s legal staff in May 2006.

Before coming to GLAD, Janson worked as a coordinating attorney with Tri-City Community Action Program, a multi-service, anti-poverty organization, where he provided legal services to low-income individuals. Prior to that, Janson was an associate at the litigation law firm of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges in San Francisco. In California, he volunteered on an LGBT anti-violence hotline, for the Lawyer’s Committee of Civil Rights, and for the AIDS Legal Referral Panel. He is a member of the bars of Massachusetts and California, and serves on the ABA’s Commission on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity, and on the Legal Committee of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health.

Janson is a graduate of both Harvard University and Harvard Law School and was named a 2011 "Best LGBT Lawyer Under 40" by the National LGBT Bar Association. Janson was also the 2012 recipient of the American Constitution Society’s David Carliner Award, which recognizes one outstanding mid-career public interest lawyer a year whose work best exemplifies its namesake’s legacy of fearless, uncompromising and creative advocacy on behalf of marginalized people.

Read a profile of Janson Wu, "Marriage Equality's Lawyer," in The Progressive

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