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Marissa M. Wenzel

Wenzel_Marissa

Marissa M. Wenzel

Counsel

New York + 1 212 295 6716

Marissa Wenzel focuses her practice on complex trial and appellate litigation. She represents clients in a wide variety of civil cases, including class actions, that raise novel issues of constitutional, statutory, contract, and tort law. Her clients regularly include financial institutions and universities along with major technology and entertainment companies. Ms. Wenzel additionally has experience providing strategic counsel to clients facing challenging legal and policy questions under media spotlight. 

Ms. Wenzel maintains an active pro bono practice. She focuses on litigation at the state and federal levels concerning racial justice, reproductive rights, and child advocacy. She clerked for the Honorable Lewis J. Liman of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, the Honorable Stephen A. Higginson of the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and the Honorable Keith P. Ellison of the US District Court for the Southern District of Texas.

Ms. Wenzel has served as a member of the New York City Bar Association’s Children and the Law Committee. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of Rock Recovery, a nonprofit organization based in Virginia.

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Credentials

  • Education

    • JD, Yale Law School, 2017

      Teaching Assistant, Advanced Legal Writing,  Editor, The Yale Journal on Regulation

    • BA, Public Policy, Duke University, 2014

      summa cum laude minor in Art History Joel Fleishman Distinguished Scholar

  • Admissions

    • New York

    • District of Columbia

  • Clerkships

    • The Hon. Lewis J. Liman, US District Court for the Southern District of New York, 2020

    • The Hon. Stephen A. Higginson, US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, 2018 - 2019

    • The Hon. Keith P. Ellison, US District Court for the Southern District of Texas, 2017 - 2018

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