Rosalind Bienvenu, Associate

Biography

Rosalind B. Bienvenu is an associate in the Santa Fe, New Mexico office of Kelly, Durham & Pittard, LLP.  She focuses her practice on civil appeals and strategic trial support at both the state and federal level.  Prior to joining the firm, Rosalind worked as a trial attorney specializing in complex litigation including catastrophic injury, toxic tort, product defect, and pharmaceutical cases.

Rosalind earned her law degree from New York University School of Law, cum laude, where she was a Florence Allen Scholar and Managing Editor of the NYU Law Review.  During law school, she interned at Sanctuary for Families, New York’s leading service provider and advocate for survivors of domestic violence and sex trafficking.  She began her legal career at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton, and Garrison LLP in New York, practicing complex commercial litigation with a focus on securities, class action, intellectual property, insurance, and white collar criminal matters.  Committed to offering pro bono legal assistance, she also successfully represented clients seeking political asylum and refugee status in the United States.  From 2014 to 2015, she served as Law Clerk to the Honorable Paul J. Kelly, Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.

Rosalind earned her undergraduate degree from Harvard University, magna cum laude, where she studied English literature and documentary filmmaking.  Before attending law school, she lived in Eastern Europe as a Henry Russell Shaw Fellow, taught English in rural Japan, and worked for Google in its Cambridge, Massachusetts office.

Rosalind is licensed to practice in New Mexico and New York.