Rebecca Hansen

Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Hansen served as a law clerk to the Honorable Michelle T. Friedland of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the Honorable Vince G. Chhabria of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

Ms. Hansen earned her J.D. with high honors from the University of Chicago Law School. She was elected to the Order of the Coif and was selected as a Kirkland & Ellis Scholar and a David M. Rubenstein Scholar.  During law school, she served as a comments editor for the University of Chicago Law Review, participated in the law school’s Supreme Court & Appellate clinic, and was a finalist in the Hinton Moot Court competition. She also externed for the Honorable Cheryl Ann Krause of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and at the Federal Programs branch of the U.S. Department of Justice. Ms. Hansen graduated with honors from Brown University with a B.A. in English.