Wardenski P.C. Welcomes Spring 2023 Law Clerks

Wardenski P.C. is excited to welcome Ashley Toruño and Allie Vance as the firm’s Spring 2023 law clerks. Ashley and Allie will support the firm’s civil rights litigation and consulting work this semester.

Ashley Toruño is a second-year law student at City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law. She is a graduate of Indiana University’s School of Public and Environmental Affairs and has dedicated her career to legislative advocacy with various roles influencing policy change at the federal, state, and local levels. Before law school, Ashley worked as a Community Engagement and Policy Advocate for the ACLU of Indiana for four years. In that role, Ashley developed and implemented advocacy strategies across issue areas in collaboration with a three-member advocacy team. After transitioning to law school, Ashley spent her first summer as a law clerk with the ACLU of Florida supporting the affiliate’s immigrants’ rights project.

Allie Vance is a third-year law student at New York University School of Law. She graduated from The University of Alabama in 2020, where she earned a dual degree in Management Information Systems and Spanish. At NYU Law, Allie was a student in the Education Advocacy Clinic and is currently participating in the Brennan Center Public Policy Advocacy Clinic. She served as co-chair for the Education Law and Policy Society, taught criminal law to high school students through the High School Law Institute, worked as a research assistant to Professor Evelyn Malavé, and is currently an Executive Editor of the NYU Review of Law and Social Change. Allie was a summer legal intern at Alabama Appleseed and Georgia Resource Center, where she assisted in the post-conviction representation of life- and death-sentenced individuals.

Wardenski P.C. typically hires one to two law students each semester and summer. All opportunities are posted on our jobs page and on PSJD.org.