Rachael Buck Rutkowski

Senior Associate

Rachael Rutkowski a senior associate attorney at Olson Remcho. Ms. Rutkowski advises clients on compliance with campaign finance laws, lobbying registration and disclosure, and elections. Ms. Rutkowski also advises clients on political and government law matters, including ballot measure drafting and qualification.

Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Rutkowski was an associate at the San Francisco office of Perkins Coie, LLP, where her practice focused on land use entitlements, real estate transactions, and land use litigation.

During law school, Ms. Rutkowski interned at the San Francisco City Attorney’s Office and Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California, served as Executive Development Editor of the Hastings Law Journal, was a teaching assistant for Legal Writing & Research and Constitutional Law I, and was President of If/When/How: Lawyering for Reproductive Justice.  Prior to law school, she interned for a political consulting company in Washington, D.C. and was a Running Start Fellow in the office of Congresswoman Karen Bass.

Ms. Rutkowski is a graduate of University of California, Santa Barbara (B.A.) and UC College of the Law, San Francisco (formerly Hastings) (J.D., magna cum laude.)  She was admitted to the California Bar in 2018.

Education

  • University of California, Santa Barbara, B.A., History and Political Science (2013)
  • UC College of the Law, San Francisco (formerly Hastings), J.D., magna cum laude (2018)

Admissions

  • California