Atticus Ballesteros

Henry Atticus Ballesteros is an associate at Hecker Fink LLP.

Atticus joined the firm after completing clerkships with the Honorable Analisa Torres of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and the Honorable Kim Wardlaw of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Prior to his clerkships, Atticus was a Yale Public Interest Fellow at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Illinois, where he investigated civil rights violations and filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of Black and Latino motorists challenging racial profiling in Chicago.

Atticus received his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal, a Coker Fellow for Contracts and Legal Writing, and a recipient of the Francis T.  Wayland Prize for Excellence in Litigation. As a member of Yale Law School’s Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic, Atticus represented immigrants facing prolonged ICE detention in the northeast and advised a national nonprofit organization on legislative strategy. He also served on the executive board of the Middle Eastern and North African Law Students’ Association, was a member of the Latinx Law Students’ Association, and worked as a research assistant and coauthor to Professor Lea Brilmayer on topics related to contracts, private international law, and choice of law. Before attending Yale, Atticus worked as a journalist in South America and as a legal assistant at the Amica Center for Immigrant Rights. Atticus received his B.A., with honors, from the University of Chicago, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.