Mary Mallen, Esq.


  • Member of California State Bar Association, December 1996
  • Graduated Dean's List, top 10% of class from University of California at Berkeley
  • Extensive experience in legislative advocacy; qualitative and quantitative research and analysis; development and implementation of goals, policies, and procedures; human resource management.

Professional Experience

Office of the Public Defender 2001-2007

DEPUTY PUBLIC DEFENDER

  • Extensive experience in the courtroom. Handled hundreds of cases, including homicide, rape, three strikes and other serious felonies
  • Calendar attorney in Misdemeanor, Felony, Extradition and Welfare Courts
  • Litigated nineteen jury trials
  • Worked with investigation, research, and paralegal units

Mary E. Mallen, Esq., Attorney at Law, San Francisco 2000-2001

SOLO PRACTITIONER

  • Criminal and Civil Litigation
  • Emphasis on Criminal and Employment Law

San Francisco District Attorney's Office 1998-2000

ASSISTANT DISTRICT ATTORNEY

  • Calendar attorney in Misdemeanor, Preliminary Hearing, Rebooking and Family Court units
  • Felony and misdemeanor experience includes over fifty preliminary hearings and six jury trials
  • Represented City and County of San Francisco's interests in Family Court Division

San Francisco Board of Supervisors 1997-1998

LEGISLATIVE ASSISTANT TO SUPERVISOR GAVIN NEWSOM

  • Developed and implemented goals, objectives, policies, procedures and work standards for Board of Supervisors member Gavin Newsom
  • Point-person on several issues including telecommunications; transportation; environmental; customer service; gay and lesbian; youth; and housing
  • Initiated numerous pieces of legislation that resulted in the creation of a Customer Service Program for CCSF; expansion of the scope of liability of Housing Code violations; sensitivity training for MUNI drivers; modification of outdoor dining regulations; introduction of AIDS license plate; limits on the use of jet skies on the San Franciso Bay
  • Responsible for bringing "Free MUNI" on New Year's Eve, and legal "alfresco dining" to San Francisco

Double Rainbow Ice Cream Inc., San Francisco 1986-1990

  • Owned and operated small business, i.e., sales, marketing, finances and customer relations
  • Small business consultant

 

Education

  • University of California at Berkeley, Conservation and Resource Studies (with Honors) May 1993
  • University of San Francisco School of Law, Juris Doctrine May 1996