Vanessa Gomez is a Real Estate Senior Associate in the Santa Monica office of Goodwin Procter LLP, where her practice focuses on acquisitions, dispositions, financings and joint venture partnerships for institutional investors, owners and developers.

Vanessa was a student legal honors extern for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in 2017 and employed at various financial institutions in New York and California before receiving her law degree from UC Irvine School of Law. Ms. Gomez is dedicated to pro bono work and her representation has included affordable housing developers, asylum seekers, state benefit recipients, DACA recipients, and adoptive parents.  While in law school, Ms. Gomez advocated on behalf of domestic violence survivors in California by testifying before the California State Assembly on a bill to amend notice requirements for domestic violence ex parte orders; the bill was signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown in 2018.  In recognition of her commitment to public service, Vanessa received Pro Bono High Honors in law school and was awarded the State Bar of California Wiley W. Manuel Certificate for Pro Bono Legal Services, the Law Legacy Award, and the Community Bridge Builder Award.  Ms. Gomez completed her undergraduate work at Princeton University and is in the process of completing a Certificate in Real Estate Investment from Harvard University.

As a daughter of immigrants and herself born in Durango, Mexico, and raised in El Sereno, Los Angeles, Vanessa is a dedicated advocate for her community.  In addition to pro bono work on behalf of a number of community organizations, Vanessa serves at the Membership Committee Chair for LLBA. She also received a presidential appointment to serve as a commissioner for the Hispanic National Bar Association’s Latina Commission.  In an effort to increase the representation and mentorship of Latinas in working in Big Law, Vanessa recently founded the Lawtinas in Big Law community across social media.