Overview

Hilary Rosenthal is an Associate at Simonsen Sussman. Prior to joining the firm, she worked as an attorney in private practice at a prominent civil rights firm. She clerked for the Honorable J. Clifford Wallace of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Hilary has previously worked as an attorney at Human Rights Watch, the ACLU of Hawai'i, and in private practice at an Am Law 100 law firm.  

Hilary earned her J.D. from Columbia Law School where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and a semifinalist in the Harlan Fiske Stone Moot Court competition. She served as Executive Articles Editor on the Columbia Human Rights Law Review, as Co-President of the Environmental Law Society, and as a member of the Mediation Clinic, where she mediated legal disputes in New York City and led courses on international conflict resolution at the United Nations and in Tokyo, Japan. She holds a B.A. in Environmental Studies from Brown University.

Bars and Courts

California State Bar

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California