Philip Monrad

Philip Monrad joined the Leonard Carder Firm in 1996, and has been a partner since 2001.  He graduated from Boalt Hall School of Law, U.C. Berkeley, in 1990, where he served as an Associate Editor of the California Law Review and was inducted into the Order of the Coif.  Philip undertook a four-year joint-degree program, earning a J.D. and also an M.A. from Boalt’s Jurisprudence and Social Policy program.

After graduating from Boalt, Philip clerked for the Honorable William Canby of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.  After clerking for Judge Canby, he was admitted to the California Bar (No. 151073) and is admitted to practice in all state and federal courts in California.  His first employment as an attorney was as an associate with the law firm of Remcho, Johansen and Purcell in San Francisco, from 1991-1996.

Philip grew up, initially on a farm and then a small town, in rural South Dakota and Minnesota.  On graduation from Windom (Minnesota) Public High School in 1966, he matriculated at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota from which he graduated with high honors in 1970.  Philip worked his way through college as a warehouseman and member of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.

Between college and law school, Philip worked at a number of blue-collar jobs, including working as a carpenter and woodcarver, an over-the-road truck driver, a deck hand on tow boats on the Mississippi River (member, Inland Boatman’s Union), a commercial salmon fisherman, and as a principal in Monrad Brothers, a general contractor partnership with his two brothers, before entering Boalt Hall, in 1986.

Aside from his advocacy for workers and labor unions and his related professional activities, Philip spends as much time as possible with his children, grandchildren, and siblings. His primary hobbies are reading, hiking in nature and playing the mandolin – poorly, but with great feeling.