Helia Bidad is an associate at Hecker Fink LLP.
Helia joined the firm after serving as an honors attorney in the Appellate Section of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Environment and Natural Resources Division, where she represented federal government agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Interior in matters involving complex appellate questions. During her tenure she worked as lead attorney in a number of cases including, Kialegee Tribal Town v. Bernhardt; California Valley Miwok Tribe v. Haaland; and Julia Yazzie v. Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation.
Previously, Helia clerked for the Honorable Kimberly J. Mueller of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California in Sacramento. Prior to law school, Helia worked as a consultant for nonprofits and foundations at CEA Consulting.
Helia received her J.D. from Yale Law School, where she served as a symposium editor for the Yale Journal on Regulation and an executive articles editor for the Yale Law and Policy Review. She received her B.S., summa cum laude, from the University of California, Berkeley where she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
Select Publications
- “The Exclusion of Environmental Justice and Race in Environmental Law Casebooks,” Ecology Law Quarterly (2024).
- “The Power of Tribal Courts in Ongoing Environmental Tort Litigation,” Yale Law Journal Forum (2023).
- Co-Author, “Understanding EPA’s COVID-19 Enforcement and Compliance Policy,” New York University School of Law Institute for Policy Integrity (2020).