Nitisha Baronia focuses her practice on complex litigation matters with an emphasis on appellate litigation and voting rights litigation. Ms. Baronia maintains an active pro bono practice in criminal justice and reproductive rights. She also develops scholarship on constitutional and administrative law in her capacity as a Rule of Law fellow at Stanford Law School and an Administrative Law Fellow for the American Bar Association.

Prior to joining the firm, she served as an Appellate Litigation Fellow in the Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia, where she argued her second appeal. Ms. Baronia clerked for both the Honorable James E. Boasberg for the US District court for the District of Columbia and the Honorable David J. Barron for the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. 

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Credentials

  • Education

    • JD, Stanford University Law School, 2021

      Knight-Hennessy Scholar

      Stanford Law Review, Articles Chair

      Co-President, American Constitution Society

      Co-President, Middle Eastern and South Asian Law Students Association

      Supreme Court Litigation Clinic

    • MA, Public Policy, Stanford University, 2021

    • BA/BS, Political Science; Business Administration, University of California, Berkeley, 2017

      Haas School of Business Valedictorian

      Department of Political Science Travers Scholar

      Regents’ and Chancellor’s Scholar

  • Admissions

    • California

    • District of Columbia

    • US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

    • United States Court of Military Appeals

    • US District Court for the District of Columbia

  • Clerkships

    • The Hon. James E. Boasberg, US District Court for the District of Columbia, 2023

    • The Hon. David J. Barron, US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, 2021 - 2022

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