Krysta Kilinski is an associate at Hecker Fink LLP.
Krysta joins the firm following a clerkship with the Honorable Kathleen Cardone of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas.
Krysta earned her J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School, where she was a Staff Member of the University of Chicago Law Review and received the Pro Bono Service Initiative Award of Excellence. In law school, Krysta also worked as a Student Attorney in the University of Chicago Law School’s Federal Criminal Justice Clinic, where she managed a team of students analyzing data and interviewed federal magistrate judges and federal public defenders for the Freedom Denied report, a comprehensive analysis of federal pretrial detention practices. As a Student Attorney, Krysta also represented an indigent defendant in a week-long federal jury trial, persuading the court to allow the defense to present expert neuropsychological testimony on the client’s borderline intellectual functioning to defeat the conspiracy charge and culminating in the government dismissing all charges with prejudice.
Krysta received her B.A., from the University of Texas at Austin.