Michael DeLuca is a law clerk at Hecker Fink LLP.
Prior to joining the firm, Michael served as a law clerk for the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. In that role, he supported Senator Richard Blumenthal’s staff with ongoing investigations, document requests, and congressional hearings. Michael previously worked as the supervisory case manager at Hecker Fink and as a paralegal in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, where he assisted prosecutors in the Terrorism and International Narcotics Unit on national security matters. He was recognized with the Director’s Award for Superior Performance by a Litigative Team for his contributions to the prosecution of Ahmad Khan Rahimi, who perpetrated a terrorist attack bombing in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan in October 2016.
Michael received his J.D., cum laude, from Duke University School of Law, where he was the Senior Articles Editor for Duke Law Journal and a research assistant to Professor Shane Stansbury. His note, “Punishment, Penal Reform, and Alternatives to Incarceration in Durham, North Carolina, 1869-Present,” was published in Volume 74 of Duke Law Journal and runner-up in the American Association of Law Libraries’ Morris L. Cohen Student Essay Competition. He was a member of the Appellate Litigation Clinic, Dean’s Advisory Council, Innocence Project, and Clemency Project. At graduation, Michael received the Justin Miller Award for Intellectual Curiosity. Before law school, Michael studied as a U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholar. He earned his master’s degree in global affairs as a Schwarzman Scholar at Tsinghua University and his B.A., cum laude, from New York University.