Rachael Yocum is Of Counsel to Peter Romer-Friedman Law PLLC. 

Rachael has many years of experience in civil and appellate litigation and is currently Of Counsel to Schnapper-Casteras PLLC, an innovative public interest appellate firm, where Rachael regularly drafts briefs in the U.S. Supreme Court and appellate courts.

After graduating from Columbia Law School in 2004, where she was a Harlan Fisk Stone Scholar, Rachael worked at several law firms in NYC and D.C., where she worked on a range of issues, including privacy, securities, fraud, and intellectual property.

Rachael has worked for some of the marquee public interest institutions in Washington, serving in the general counsel’s office of D.C.’s Public Defender Service and as a fair housing attorney at the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights & Urban Affairs. She also worked as a lawyer for the D.C. Board on Professional Responsibility.