Mr. Dea earned his J.D. cum laude from University of San Diego School of Law. In law school, he interned for the San Diego County Public Defender Office, externed at the United States District Court for the Southern District of California, and worked for a summer term at the Employment and Administrative Mandate of the Office of the Attorney General of the State of California. Mr. Dea also served as both President of the Employment and Labor Law Society and Problem-Writer for the Alumni Torts Tournament on the Executive Board of Moot Court during his last year of school. He earned his B.A. from Loyola Marymount University, double-majoring in International Relations and Spanish.