Sneha Pandya is an associate at Hecker Fink LLP.
Sneha joined the firm after completing clerkships for the Honorable Adalberto J. Jordán of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and the Honorable Anita B. Brody of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Sneha previously served as an Attorney-Advisor in the Office of Regulations at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), where she drafted consumer protection regulations and provided mortgage servicing and student lending regulatory guidance. Sneha also served as a lawyer for then-Chairman Sherrod Brown of the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs (BHUA) as a Millstein Public Service Fellow. On the Committee, she focused on the consumer protection, insurance, banking, and economic policy portfolios and prepared for congressional hearings, conducted oversight of financial regulators, and corresponded with large financial institutions.
Earlier in her career, Sneha was a summer associate with the firm, where she was part of the team that reviewed gender equity issues in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) championships.
Sneha earned her J.D. from Columbia Law School, where she served as an Articles Editor for the Columbia Human Rights Law Review and as a Managing Editor of the CLS Blue Sky Blog on Corporations and the Capital Markets. Sneha’s academic work earned her recognition as a James Kent Scholar and a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, and she received Dean’s Honors in Advanced Civil Procedure. Sneha and her moot court partner were the national champions of the National Black Law Student Association (NBLSA) Thurgood Marshall Moot Court in 2019, through which she received the Best Petitioner Brief award and Columbia’s Simon H. Rifkind Prize for best overall performance in the first-year moot court program. While at Columbia, Sneha served as a teaching assistant for Professors Kristen Underhill, Maeve Glass, and Kathryn Judge and as a research assistant for Dean Gillian Lester, Professor Olatunde Johnson, Professor Eric Talley, and Professor Suzanne Goldberg. Sneha also externed at the Public Rights Project and was a summer intern at the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund (LDF).
Prior to law school, Sneha worked at the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office in the Consumer Protection Division of the Public Protection and Advocacy Bureau. Sneha received her B.A., summa cum laude in English with university honors, from Northeastern University, where she was a University Scholar.
Select Publications
- Co-author, Debt Textualism and Creditor-on-Creditor Violence: A Modest Plea to Keep the Faith, 171 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1975 (2023)
- Co-producer, “Through the Gale: A Podcast About Lawyering, Freedom, and Democracy,” supported by Columbia Law School and the Center for Constitutional Governance (2022)