Meet the team.

Liam F. Vavasour is an attorney at Robberson Schroedter LLP whose practice focuses on civil litigation, including employment law, civil rights, consumer protection, and business disputes. 

 After graduating from California Western in 2014 and joining the California Bar, Mr. Vavasour was in private practice in San Diego as a civil litigator. During that time, he represented diverse clients in many kinds of cases, ranging from employment disputes involving unlawful discrimination, harassment, and retaliation, to cases involving breaches of contract, fraud, consumer protection, putative class actions, administrative proceedings, and other matters. 

 In 2020, Mr. Vavasour joined the faculty full-time at California Western as a Legal Writing Professor. During his time on the faculty, Mr. Vavasour taught Legal Skills I and II, the Clinical Externship Seminar, the Legal Scholarship Training Seminar, and a first-year elective on International Law and the Law of the Sea. He also served as the Director of the Clinical Externship Program from 2023 to 2025 and as Vice Dean for Academic Affairs from May 2025 to June 2026. In 2022, he was recognized by the students as 1L Professor of the Year for the 2021-2022 academic year. 

 While in practice now with Robberson Schroedter LLP, Mr. Vavasour continues to serve as adjunct professor at California Western teaching a seminar on principles and practices of legal scholarship and previously served on California Western’s Alumni Association Board of Directors. He provides pro bono service to the San Diego community as a volunteer attorney with California Western’s Community Law Project and remains deeply involved with the legal community, including through the San Diego County Bar Association, the Louis M. Welsh Inn of Court, and the San Diego County Native American Lawyers Association.

 While a student at California Western School of Law, Mr. Vavasour served as the Editor-in-Chief of the California Western Law Review. During law school, he also served as a judicial extern to the Honorable Irma E. Gonzalez, United States District Court Judge for the Southern District Court of California, and as a law clerk in the United States Attorney’s Office in San Diego. Before law school, Mr. Vavasour studied history at the University of California San Diego, and served as a teaching assistant, teaching history, literature, philosophy, and persuasive writing for several years in the Revelle Humanities Program there.