Kaplan Hecker & Fink LLP
At Kaplan Hecker & Fink LLP, we practice law at the highest level, guided by our core values of integrity, innovation, and excellence. Our lawyers are efficient, diverse, collaborative, and focused on one singular goal — achieving the best possible results for our clients through fierce advocacy, creative strategies, and forward-looking advice.
Directors
Julie Fink
Managing Partner
Bio
Julie Fink is the Managing Partner at Kaplan Hecker & Fink LLP. Before joining the firm, Julie worked as an attorney at Paul, Weiss and as in-house counsel at Pfizer Inc.
At Paul, Weiss, Julie was a key member of the team who successfully represented Edith Windsor in a landmark case where the Supreme Court ruled that DOMA is unconstitutional. She also successfully represented thousands of individuals in an action brought against the Governor of the State of NY and other NY officials challenging the practice of segregating individuals with mental illness in institutional adult homes.
Julie’s practice has included product liability and mass tort, employment class action, regulatory, securities fraud, mergers and acquisitions, consumer fraud, complex commercial and antitrust litigation, and she represented Melanie Kohler, who was sued for defamation by a Hollywood director after sharing her #MeToo experience on Facebook. Julie currently advises clients on Title IX and Title VII compliance and litigation matters and represents Pfizer in connection with product liability matters. She also currently represents ten plaintiffs in a groundbreaking lawsuit against twenty-five white supremacists and neo-Nazis, bringing claims under the Ku Klux Klan Act and Civil Rights Act for their roles in organizing racial and religious-based violence in Charlottesville during the Summer of 2017.
Julie serves on the board of the Gay Men's Health Crisis and is also a member of the Pro Bono Advisory Council for New York Lawyers for the Public Interest.
Julie clerked for the Honorable Eric N. Vitaliano in the U.S. District Court for the EDNY. She received her law degree, magna cum laude, from NYU’s School of Law, where she was a Florence Allen Scholar and a member of the Order of the Coif. She received her B.A. in Economics from Emory University.
Awardees
Gabrielle Tenzer
Partner
Bio
As a partner at Kaplan Hecker & Fink, Gabrielle maintains a broad civil litigation practice for clients as diverse as Columbia University and Uber. Gabrielle is working on the firm’s representation of ten plaintiffs suing neo-Nazi and white supremacist individuals and organizations responsible for the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017. Gabrielle is also continuing her involvement in the firm’s Time’s Up work, providing victims of sexual harassment and assault with legal representation. Before becoming an attorney, Gabrielle spent almost a decade working in federal government in Washington, D.C. As a Legislative Assistant to then-Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, Gabrielle helped draft and negotiate legislation focusing on public works, environmental protection and environmental health. As Associate Director of Environmental Protection at the White House Council on Environmental Quality and Communications Director of the U.S. EPA’s Office of Water, Gabrielle worked to build consensus among federal agencies and outside constituencies in developing and promoting national environmental policies. She also worked in the Office of Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. as a legislative assistant and legislative director. Following her career in federal government and prior to joining Kaplan Hecker & Fink, Gabrielle was at Paul, Weiss, where she worked on multi-billion-dollar commercial cases, representing some of the nation’s largest financial institutions in securities litigation, shareholder derivative suits, and adversary proceedings in federal bankruptcy court. Gabrielle clerked for the Honorable Robert W. Sweet of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. She received her law degree from New York University School of Law, where she served as Editor-in-Chief of the NYU Journal of Legislation & Public Policy. Gabrielle received an Ms in Geology from the University of Michigan and a BA in Geology from Yale University.
Jenna Dabbs
Partner
Bio
Jenna is an experienced trial and appellate lawyer whose practice focuses on government and internal investigations, white collar criminal defense, complex civil litigation and regulatory compliance. Jenna is a former federal prosecutor with extensive trial and investigative experience in both the public and private sectors. Jenna served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York from 2006 to 2014, where she was a member of the Securities and Commodities Fraud Task Force, the Terrorism and International Narcotics Unit, and also served as the Chief of the Narcotics Unit. Jenna has served as lead or co-lead counsel in numerous federal criminal trials, on charges ranging from bank fraud and money laundering to narcotics trafficking and attempted murder. She has directed and supervised hundreds of investigations in a wide variety of matters. Jenna has also briefed and argued numerous criminal appeals before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Following her career in the U.S. Attorney’s Office and prior to joining Kaplan Hecker & Fink, Jenna served as Senior Counsel at Pershing Square Capital Management, L.P., an SEC-registered investment manager. Pershing Square is a concentrated research-intensive fundamental value investor in the public markets which often employs an activist strategy. At Pershing, Jenna was responsible for litigation and regulatory matters, as well as compliance principally in the areas of trading, cybersecurity and data security and privacy. Jenna clerked for the Hon. Denise Cote of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. She received her law degree from Columbia University in 2001, where she was a senior editor of the Law Review, a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and a Public Interest Fellow. Jenna graduated with high honors from Wesleyan University in 1998.