ALRP Welcomes Four New Panel Attorneys
August 21, 2025
ALRP is excited to welcome four outstanding attorneys to our Panel this summer: Christy Lai, John Paul, Allison Wang, and Julia Wobbe. By joining our panel, they have generously committed to donate their time and expertise to our clients, helping expand our capacity to meet the growing need for compassionate, high-quality legal assistance in our community. We are deeply grateful to all of our pro bono attorneys, whose commitment and generosity make it possible for ALRP to serve hundreds of clients each year.
Christy Lai earned her law degree from UC Berkeley School of Law after receiving her B.A. in English from Columbia University. She is an experienced estate planning lawyer, with a special focus on special needs trusts and planning, supported decision making, and limited conservatorships. She is also a longtime volunteer at the Pomeroy Center, where one of her favorite projects was providing CalFresh application assistance over several years in a wide variety of settings - influencing her ongoing goal of providing compassionate, person-centered legal services in the area of estate planning and probate to people of all income levels and ages.
John Paul was born and raised in San Francisco, attended UC Law SF (formerly UC Hastings), was only recently barred this year, and is a Marine Corps veteran. He was inspired to work with ALRP because it is not difficult to watch the news and think that the world is a wholly uncaring place—watching a government that is either unwilling or unable to protect our most fragile populations; people and corporations exploiting a lack of oversight purely for financial gain; and a society that seems to lack empathy for those different from themselves. Working with ALRP's immigration team, John hopes he can help push back on this bleak vision of the world towards a brighter future, one that the recent birth of his first child has made him that much more dedicated to helping to bring about.
Allison Wang is an associate professor and director of externship programs at University of San Francisco School of Law. Before joining USF, she directed the Pro Bono Program at UC College of the Law San Francisco, and served as Golden Gate University’s Externship Director from 2019-2022, where she piloted Golden Gate University’s first evening Asylum Clinic in partnership with the LGBT Asylum Project. She is a Minority Bar Coalition board co-chair and a Bar Association of San Francisco board member.
Julia Wobbe is the founder of Wobbe Tenant Law, a plaintiff-side firm representing tenants in affirmative lawsuits against landlords throughout California, including San Francisco and Los Angeles. With over 13 years of experience, Julia focuses exclusively on tenant-side claims such as wrongful eviction, habitability violations, harassment, and buyouts. Her practice is dedicated solely to holding landlords accountable.