At Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, Professor Delfino’s work focuses on appellate law and procedure, the judicial branch, access to justice, and ADR. She is also working in the areas of state and municipal law and governance as well as education law. In addition to serving as the Director of the Externship Department, Professor Delfino teaches courses in appellate advocacy, negotiation, and judicial process. Professor Delfino has also developed a unique and intensive summer advocacy “boot camp” at Loyola for advanced legal writing and oral advocacy. In addition, she serves as the faculty advisor for Loyola’s nationally recognized and award-winning Moot Court Program.

Prior to joining the full-time faculty of the law school, Professor Delfino served as Lead Senior Appellate Attorney at the California Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District, Division Seven for 17 years. During her tenure at the Court of Appeal, she researched and prepared more than 500 bench memoranda and draft legal opinions in numerous areas of law from felony criminal cases to complex civil litigation, to family law and probate, to juvenile dependency and delinquency matters. In addition to her full-time position at the Court of Appeal, in 1999 Professor Delfino joined the adjunct faculty of Loyola Law School. Professor Delfino is a member of the adjunct faculty of Glendale Community College, where she teaches a political science course focused on California State and Local Government and a course focused on the United States Federal government and politics at the national level. Professor Delfino also serves as a “neutral” for the Los Angeles County Superior Court. Since 1999 she has been a mediator, arbitrator, and judge pro tem. As a volunteer bench officer, Rebecca has presided over more than 100 limited civil arbitrations and small claims trials.

Professor Delfino began her legal career as a litigator at Kirkland & Ellis and was later an associate at Quinn, Emanuel, Urquhart & Sullivan in Los Angeles. She handled all phases of civil litigation in a variety of cases from complex multi-party product defect and construction cases to white-collar criminal defense, to protection of intellectual property rights, to defense of employment discrimination and harassment claims.

During law school, Professor Delfino had an externship with the Honorable William Shubb of the Federal District Court of the Eastern District of California in Sacramento. After graduation from law school, she served on a clerkship with the Honorable Cliff Young, Associate Justice of the Nevada State Supreme Court.