clock menu more-arrow no yes mobile
Will you help keep Vox free? Vox's journalism is free, so that everyone can understand our world. Reader support helps us do that. Will you give today?

Filed under:

U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul Grewal is leaving the bench for Facebook

He has been overseeing cases in the federal court in San Jose since 2010.

By Ina Fried
Photo by Stephen Lam/Getty Images

Paul Grewal, a magistrate judge in San Jose federal court, is leaving his post there to join social network Facebook as deputy general counsel in charge of litigation.

Grewal, who confirmed the move to Recode, has been on the bench since 2010. He has been on the court's technology and patent committees.

Facebook said Grewal will start in late June and report to general counsel Colin Stretch.

Before joining the bench as a magistrate, Grewal worked at the law firms Pillsbury Madison & Sutro and at Day Casebeer Madrid & Batchelder as well as serving as a law clerk to Federal Circuit appeals court judge Arthur J. Gajarsa.

His hiring was reported earlier Thursday by San Francisco-area legal newspaper The Recorder.

This article originally appeared on Recode.net.

Will you support Vox’s explanatory journalism?

Most news outlets make their money through advertising or subscriptions. But when it comes to what we’re trying to do at Vox, there are a couple of big issues with relying on ads and subscriptions to keep the lights on:

First, advertising dollars go up and down with the economy. We often only know a few months out what our advertising revenue will be, which makes it hard to plan ahead.

Second, we’re not in the subscriptions business. Vox is here to help everyone understand the complex issues shaping the world — not just the people who can afford to pay for a subscription. We believe that’s an important part of building a more equal society. And we can’t do that if we have a paywall.

So even though advertising is still our biggest source of revenue, we also seek grants and reader support. (And no matter how our work is funded, we have strict guidelines on editorial independence.)

If you also believe that everyone deserves access to trusted high-quality information, will you make a gift to Vox today? Any amount helps.

Yes, I'll give $5/month

Next Up In Technology

The Latest

Scaling slaughter-free meat is hard. Here’s one way to make it easier.

By Julieta Cardenas

Why psychedelics produce some of the most meaningful experiences in people’s lives

By Oshan Jarow

Why Gavin Newsom and Ron DeSantis are debating each other

By Li Zhou

What Henry Kissinger wrought

By Dylan Matthews

There are now more land mines in Ukraine than almost anywhere else on the planet

By Jen Kirby

There’s less meat at this year’s climate talks. But there’s plenty of bull.

By Kenny Torrella