Nicholas Tonckens
Nicholas Tonckens works on litigation matters.
He returns to the firm after working as a summer associate.
During law school, Nicholas interned with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York Criminal Division. He served as a managing student editor for Just Security, an online national security forum; as a legal fellow with the Policing Project; and as a research assistant for Professor Barry Friedman, conducting research on the federal government’s role in police reform. Nicholas was also a student scholar with the Reiss Center on Law & Security, conducting research on issues of law and national security, and interned with Access Now, working on global privacy issues. He previously worked as a program manager for The Mentor Group, a legal research institute in Boston.
Background
Education
- J.D., New York University School of Law, 2022
- President, National Security Law Society
- Executive Editor, N.Y.U. Review of Law & Social Change
- Managing Student Editor, Just Security
- Events Chair, American Constitution Society
- A.B., cum laude, Government & Legal Studies and Russian, Bowdoin College, 2016
- Russian Scholar Laureate
- Sarah & James Bowdoin Scholar
- Editor-in-Chief, The Bowdoin Globalist
Bar Admissions
Languages
- Russian
- French
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