• Nicholas Tonckens works on litigation matters. He returns to Kramer Levin 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.

    Credentials

    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

    • New York, 2023

    Languages

    • Russian
    • French

    Focus Areas