Selena Kitchens is an associate at Kaplan Hecker & Fink.
Selena’s practice focuses on white collar defense, government investigations, and complex civil litigation. She was a member of a trial team representing an individual charged with securities fraud, as well as a defense team representing a company facing simultaneous regulatory and USAO investigations. Selena maintains an active pro bono practice focused on protecting civil and constitutional rights, working on cases involving Section 1983 claims, immigration detention issues, and religious discrimination arguments.
Selena received her J.D. from Yale Law School, where she served as the co-Editor in Chief of the Yale Law & Policy Review. While at Yale, she was a member of the Supreme Court Advocacy Clinic, working on over half a dozen merits, amicus, and certiorari-stage filings over her time with the clinic. She also served as a Coker Fellow for Professor Kate Stith, teaching legal writing and mentoring 1L students in their first semester of law school, and as a teaching assistant for both Professor Akhil Amar and Ambassador (ret.) Luis C.deBaca. During this time, Selena held summer internships with both the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York and KHF.
Prior to law school, Selena was a Project Analyst at Mintz, where she worked closely with the co-chair of the firm’s white collar defense practice on high-profile, investigation-stage cases. She received her B.A. from Princeton University, graduating summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. As an undergraduate, Selena interned for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York and the Office of the Federal Public Defender for the Eastern District of Virginia.
Select Publications
- Co-author, “Business Crime Laws and Regulations,” Global Legal Group's ICLG (2023)
