Camden Vilkin

Camden Vilkin joined Nolan Barton & Olmos in 2020. She received her A.B. from Harvard College and her J.D. from Stanford Law School. While in law school, she served as President of the Criminal Law Society and participated in the Criminal Defense Clinic, where she was awarded the Judge Thelton E. Henderson Prize for Outstanding Performance in Criminal Defense Clinic Practice. Camden is a demonstrated writer and researcher. She was a founding board member of the Stanford Journal of Criminal Law and Policy and an Associate Editor for both the Stanford Journal of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties and the Stanford Law & Policy Review. Camden also served as a Research Assistant for the Stanford Criminal Justice Center. In college, she published a book in collaboration with the Harvard Kennedy School. Camden has also worked for the United States Department of Justice, the Federal Public Defender for the Northern District of California, the Harvard Kennedy School, and the National Employment Law Project’s Second Chance Labor Project. After law school, Camden clerked for the Honorable James Donato, United States District Court for the Northern District of California. Before joining Nolan Barton & Olmos, Camden advocated for clients at all stages of criminal proceedings as an Associate Deputy Public Defender for Alameda County. There, she litigated hundreds of criminal cases and achieved not-guilty verdicts or dismissals for her clients in cases involving possession of firearms, theft, driving under the influence, domestic violence, elder abuse, criminal threats, assault, and battery.