Amit Jain

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Amit Jain is a senior associate at Kaplan Hecker & Fink LLP with experience in a range of civil litigation (including civil rights, immigration, and education matters), criminal defense, policy advocacy, and appellate litigation. He previously worked as litigation and policy counsel at the Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project, where he participated in litigation relating to family separation, co-authored legislative and administrative advocacy materials, and drafted informational material for asylum seekers, and as a staff attorney with the Bronx Defenders, where he represented hundreds of individual clients in Bronx Criminal Court. Amit joined Kaplan Hecker following clerkships with the Hon. Sonia Sotomayor of the U.S. Supreme Court and the Hon. Diana Gribbon Motz of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.