Shayla Myers joined Schonbrun DeSimone Seplow Harris Hoffman and Harrison in August 2012. Her practice focuses on employment discrimination and civil rights litigation.
Prior to joining SDSHHH, Shayla was a Skadden Fellow at the LA Gay and Lesbian Center, and in partnership with Bet Tzedek Legal Services, created the LGBTQ Access to Justice Project, where she provided legal services to homeless and low-income lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth and adults. Before her fellowship, she served as a law clerk for the Honorable Sandra Segal Ikuta of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Shayla graduated from UCLA School of Law in 2008 with concentrations in Critical Race Studies and Public Interest Law and Policy. She was awarded Order of the Coif and served as Chief Comments Editor of the UCLA Law Review. In law school, Shayla interned with a number of civil rights organizations, including the ACLU LGBT Rights Project in New York and the National Center for Lesbian Rights. She received the California Bar Foundation’s Public Interest Scholarship and was a Williams Institute Summer Fellow. She also served as Co-Chair of her law school’s OUTLaw.
Prior to law school, Shayla coordinated a 24-hour rape crisis hotline and advocacy program in Albuquerque, New Mexico for survivors of sexual assault. She graduated from Kenyon College with honors in Political Science.
Shayla currently serves on the executive committee of the Board of Governors of the Lesbian and Gay Lawyers Association of Los Angeles.
