Alison Asarnow, Associate |
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Alison Asarnow joined Katz, Marshall, & Banks, LLP in September, 2008.
Ms. Asarnow received her a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Language and Literature from Yale University in 2004. In 2008, she received her J.D. from Harvard Law School, where she was an Article Editor for the Harvard Journal of Law and Gender and performed in the improvisational comedy troupe. As a student attorney at the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic and at the Wilmer-Hale Legal Services Center, Ms. Asarnow litigated on behalf of indigent clients, including a successful claim for an asylum seeker from the Democratic Republic of Congo.
While in law school, she was awarded the L. Anthony Sutin Public Service Fellowship to work on housing, employment, and public benefits cases with the Farmworker Program of Legal Aid Services of Oregon. As a summer law clerk at United Mine Workers of America, she worked on a variety of labor law issues including a response to the Sago Mine disaster. Ms. Asarnow also completed a legal clerkship at the public-interest employment law firm Messing, Rudavsky, & Weliky P.C.
Prior to law school, Ms. Asarnow worked as a legal assistant at CASA of Maryland, where she assisted immigrant day laborers in resolving wage claims. Ms. Asarnow speaks Spanish fluently and has intermediate proficiency in French.
Ms. Asarnow is admitted to practice in Virginia and her application for admission to the District of Columbia Bar is pending.
