Dakota Hickingbottom ’21 Joins Seltzer Caplan McMahon Vitek

California Western School of Law is pleased to announce that Dakota Hickingbottom ’21 has joined Seltzer Caplan McMahon Vitek as an associate in the Litigation Department. The Department Chair, Greg Vega, said, “Dakota’s fresh perspective, creativity and critical thinking skills are already proving to be an asset to the SCMV legal team and our clients.” 

While at California Western, Dakota was a member of the Women’s Law Caucus and an intern with the California Innocence Project. She served as the executive lead article editor for the California Western International Law Journal and as an associate editor for the California Western Law Review. Dakota served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Ruth Bermudez Montenegro, District Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California, as an intern in the Civil Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of California, and as a law clerk at Selman Breitman LLP.