Allison Durkin is an associate at Hecker Fink LLP.
Allison joined the firm following a clerkship with the Honorable Ronnie Abrams of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Prior to that, she clerked for the Honorable Pierre Leval of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Earlier in her career, Allison was a Liman Fellow and staff attorney in the DNA Forensics Unit of the Legal Aid Society’s Criminal Defense Practice, where she contributed to briefs and a class action complaint in New York State court and the Southern District of New York and drafted state legislation in collaboration with community peers.
Allison received her J.D. from Yale Law School, where she was awarded the Arthur Liman Public Interest Post-Graduate Fellowship and the Gallagher Prize for outstanding trial advocacy from the Thomas Swan Barristers’ Union. At Yale, Allison served as a Coker Fellow in Contract Law and a Research Assistant. She was a member of the Criminal Justice Advocacy Clinic, the Center for Children’s Advocacy’s Pediatric Medical-Legal Partnership at Yale-New Haven Hospital, the Global Health Justice Practicum, and the Gender Violence Clinic. Prior to law school, Allison worked as a Clinical Research Coordinator at the Seaver Autism Center at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
Allison received her B.S., cum laude, from Yale University, where she was a recipient of the John E. Linck, III Commencement Prize. She is the co-author of scholarly articles that have been published in legal and scientific journals.