Overview
Ms. Masongsong joined The Law Offices of Dale K. Galipo in 2013. She received her law degree, magna cum laude, from Pepperdine University in 2011, where she was a member of the Pepperdine Law Review, the Pepperdine Honor Board, and the Order of the Coif. Ms. Masongsong also served as an officer of Phi Delta Phi International legal honor society and as a criminal law teaching fellow. While in law school, she was a judicial extern to the Honorable Alex Kozinski in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Ms. Masongsong also participated in Pepperdine’s moot court competition at the Royal Courts of Justice while studying law in London, England.
As an associate at The Law Offices of Dale K. Galipo, Ms. Masongsong has contributed to multiple seven-figure settlements and a multi-million dollar jury verdict in civil rights police excessive force cases. Some notable cases Ms. Masongsong has contributed to include:
- $2,800,000 settlement: Martinez v. County of Los Angeles (Police Shooting), April 2016;
- $1,900,000 settlement: L.R. v. County of Riverside (Police Shooting), May 2017;
- $2,000,000 settlement: Powell v. City of Barstow (Police Shooting), May 2017;
- $1,450,000 settlement: Hernandez v. City of Los Angeles (Excessive Force/Restraint Asphyxiation, No offer of settlement), following jury verdict on liability, February 2018;
- $2,750,000 settlement: Briones v. City of Ontario (Excessive Force/Asphyxiation), June 2018;
- $4,600,000 settlement: C.M. v. County of Los Angeles (Police Shooting), August 2018;
- $8,500,000 settlement: Vivas v. County of Riverside (Police Shooting), August 2019;
- $4,500,000 jury verdict: L.D., et al. v. City of Los Angeles, et al. (Police Use of Force), January 2020;
- $4,650,000 settlement: Franco v. City of West Covina (Police Shooting), February 2020;