Avisha Sabaghian is an associate at Hecker Fink LLP.
Avisha rejoined the firm following a clerkship with the Honorable Rachel S. Bloomekatz of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Prior to her clerkship, she was an associate at Hecker Fink where she was a member of the legal team that secured a dismissal for client Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) in X Corp v. Center for Countering Digital Hate Inc et al., a lawsuit that alleged CCDH violated X’s terms of service by illegally acquiring data used in researching the prevalence of hate speech on the platform.
Avisha previously worked as a research assistant for the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society and also worked as a legal intern for the Center for Democracy and Technology. In the latter role, she drafted legal memorandum and blog posts related to copyright and privacy-related litigation, as well as comments to the Senate Intellectual Property Subcommittee on recent Digital Millenium Copyright Act hearings.
Avisha received her J.D. from Harvard Law School. She served as the Notes Co-Chair of the Harvard Law Review, a blog contributor for the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, and a member of the Education Law Clinic. Avisha was awarded Dean’s Scholar Prizes for academic excellence. She received her B.A., cum laude, from the University of Utah, where she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
Select Publications
- Co-Author, Necessity Takings in the Era of Climate Change, 136 Harv. L. Rev. 952 (2023)