Galit Lipa joined Stanford Law School in 2007 as a fellow in the Criminal Defense Clinic.

Lipa was most recently a deputy public defender at the Contra Costa County Office of the Public Defender. Prior to that, she was an E. Barrett Prettyman Fellow at Georgetown University Law Center, where she represented people accused of crimes in misdemeanor, felonies, and delinquency hearings in Washington D.C.'s Superior Court and supervised third-year students in the Juvenile Justice Clinic who were representing clients in delinquency proceedings. She is a 2004 graduate of Yale Law School and in 2006 was awarded an LLM from Georgetown Law in Advocacy.