Alec M. Rishwain

Prior to joining Venable, Alec spent four years as an attorney in the complex commercial litigation and general liability/torts litigation practices of a national full-service law firm. Alec was also a legal fellow at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit for the Honorable Consuelo Callahan. In that role, he prepared a bench memorandum to a three-judge panel on a case involving complex free speech, substantive due process, and other constitutional law issues, resulting in a published opinion by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals - McNeil v. Sherwood Sch. Dist.

Alec graduated cum laude from Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law in 2018. During law school, Alec served as a senior journal editor and as president of the Corporate and Business Law Society. Alec was also a legal extern at the Supreme Court of Arizona for Presiding Disciplinary Judge William O'Neil, where he drafted decisions and orders imposing sanctions in professional discipline cases.