Alumni in Residence with Natalie Vernon J.D. ’17 of Cooley LLP

Tuesday, March 4, 2025 from 12:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m. EST

The Alumni in Residence program connects current HLS students with accomplished HLS alumni for one-on-one career mentoring and advice. You’re invited to meet with Natalie Vernon J.D. ’17 during their virtual office hours. Sign up for a 20-minute Zoom appointment.

Natalie Vernon J.D. ’17

Natalie Vernon is a corporate associate at Cooley LLP in Denver, Colorado, where she focuses on mergers and acquisitions and represents strategic parties in public and private transactions across a range of industries. Natalie was previously a corporate associate at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP in New York and has also worked in Cooley’s San Francisco office. She also clerked for the Honorable Michael J. Melloy on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.

Prior to law school, Natalie worked in the White House Office of Political Affairs and spent four years working at Google, where she helped lead the company’s efforts around the 2012 election and launched initiatives with state and local governments. During law school, Natalie completed externships with the Iowa Attorney General’s Consumer Protection Division and with Massachusetts State Senator Eric Lesser J.D. ’15 and was President of the Women’s Law Association. Originally from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, she holds a B.A. and an M.P.A. from the University of Pennsylvania.