Tucker Atkins is an associate in Stradling’s Business Litigation practice group. He has experience representing businesses and individuals in commercial disputes, white-collar criminal matters, and securities actions.
Before joining Stradling, Tucker externed for the Honorable Dolly M. Gee of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California and was a Law Clerk on the Ranking Member’s Staff at the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary. Before law school, Tucker was a paralegal at the Federal Public Defender’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia, where he helped coordinate the district’s habeas litigation after Johnson v. United States and assisted with numerous trials and appeals.
Tucker earned his law degree from the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law where he was a Managing Editor of the UCLA Law Review. Tucker was also a member of the UCLA Criminal Defense Clinic, where he represented a client in obtaining a sentence reduction from life to time-served under the First Step Act. He earned his B.A. from Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia where he received the school’s John Marshall Award for Government & Foreign Affairs.