Allegra Padula is an associate in the firm’s Litigation department. She joined the firm in 2024.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Prior to joining Goodwin, Allegra served as a Judicial Intern for the Honorable Lawrence E. Kahn, Senior United States District Court Judge for the Northern District of New York. During law school, Allegra worked part-time as a Law Clerk at a boutique intellectual property law firm and served as a Legal Intern at the Research Foundation for SUNY. She was a Summer Associate at Goodwin in 2023.
While in law school, Allegra served as Executive Editor for Research & Business on the Albany Law Review and the Collegiate Competitions Chair on the Anthony V. Cardona ’70 Moot Court Board.
Credentials
Education
JD2024
Albany Law School
(summa cum laude)
BAMolecular Biology; English Literature (minor)2019
Colgate University
(cum laude)
Admissions
Bars
- Massachusetts
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
Recognition & Awards
Allegra was inducted into the National Order of the Barristers, an honor society for law school graduates who demonstrate exceptional skills in trial advocacy, oral advocacy, and brief writing.
Publications
- Author, “23andMe . . . And You: Examining the Existence of a Patient’s Duty to Inform Family Members of Genetic Test Results and Establishing a New Cause of Action,” 87 Alb. L. Rev. 423, 2024
- Co-Author, “The Doubletime Homolog KIN-20 Mainly Regulates let-7 Independently of Its Effects on the Period Homolog LIN-42 in Caenorhabditis elegans,” G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics, 2018