David Olin is an associate at Hecker Fink LLP.
David joined the firm following a clerkship with the Honorable Richard E.N. Federico of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. Prior to his clerkship, he worked as a legal fellow in the General Counsel’s office of Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign, where he researched emerging issues in election law and drafted pleadings in state and federal court to counter voter suppression.
During law school, David served as a law clerk for Senator Richard Blumenthal on the Senate Judiciary Committee, where he worked on issues of constitutional law, antitrust law, and technology regulation. He also held legal internships with the National Security Unit of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts and the Department of Justice Office of Legal Policy. Prior to attending law school, David worked for the Democratic National Committee.
David earned his J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School where he served as Executive Editor for the Harvard National Security Journal and Policy Editor for the Harvard Law and Policy Review. He also worked as a research assistant for Professors Cass Sunstein, Kenneth Mack, and Jonathan Gould. David received his B.A., summa cum laude, from the University of California, Berkeley, where he was a Regents’ and Chancellor’s Scholar and the recipient of the 2019 Elie Wiesel National Essay in Ethics Prize.