Andre Mura at Stanford Law School and NCJI Symposium “Secrecy and Transparency in Civil Litigation”

On May 1, 2026, Andre Mura presented opening remarks and interviewed Gretchen Carlson, a former broadcast journalist and prominent advocate for workplace reform who founded Lift Our Voices, at an academic symposium entitled Secrecy and Transparency in Civil Litigation. This two-day symposium was co-sponsored by Stanford Law School’s Deborah L. Rhode Center on the Legal Profession and the National Civil Justice Institute, where Andre currently serves as president (2025-2026).

SLS Symposium: Secrecy and Transparency in Civil Litigation | May 1-2, 2026
Stanford Law School, Room 290 – with livestreaming option | 9.75 hours CLE

The symposium featured presentations of six original academic papers and focused on the legal, empirical, and normative dimensions of secrecy and transparency in the civil justice system. Discussions included timely issues concerning the sealing of court records and granting of protective orders, non-disclosure agreements, and forced arbitration.

About Andre Mura

Andre M. Mura represents plaintiffs in class actions and mass torts including in the areas of consumer protection, privacy, and products liability. Before joining Gibbs Mura, Andre was senior litigation counsel at the Center for Constitutional Litigation PC, where he represented plaintiffs in high-stakes appeals in state supreme courts and federal appellate courts.

Andre has been honored twice with a California Lawyer Attorney of the Year Award: in 2023 for his involvement and success at trial in Patz v. City of San Diego, and in 2019 for his work in the California Supreme Court in De La Torre v. CashCall. He is on the Board of the Impact Fund, the Civil Justice Research Initiative of Berkeley Law, a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, a member of the Lawyers Committee of the National Center for State Courts, President of the National Civil Justice Institute, past Chair of the American Association for Justice’s LGBT Caucus, past Trustee of the National College of Advocacy, and a member of Williams College’s Latino/a and BiGLATA Alumni Network.