Daphna Spivack is an associate at Kaplan Hecker & Fink LLP.
Before joining the firm, Daphna completed a clerkship with the Hon. Kenneth M. Karas of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Prior to clerking, Daphna was a legal fellow at the ACLU of New York, where she worked on litigation to protect the rights of New Yorkers, including challenges to the NYPD’s response to the George Floyd protests and New York’s felony juror ban.
Daphna received her J.D. from Stanford Law, where she was a Managing Editor of the Stanford Journal of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties and was awarded the Judge Thelton E. Henderson Prize for outstanding performance in the Religious Liberty Clinic, the John Hart Ely Prize for outstanding performance in Legal Ethics and Behavioral Law and Economics, and the Kirkwood Moot Court Best Preliminary Respondent’s Brief Award, and received high pro bono distinction.
While at Stanford University, Daphna served as a graduate fellow to the Stanford Race and Social Inequality Lab and conducted research about racial bias in the discretionary decision-making of lawyers and jurors in the criminal and civil legal systems. Daphna has also interned for the ACLU of New York, Bay Area Legal Aid, the Center for Justice Innovation, and the Civil Division of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York.
Daphna received her B.A. with honors in Sociology from Wesleyan University, where she was Phi Beta Kappa and a Gruss Merit Scholar, and has an M.A. in Psychology from Stanford University.