Brooke S. Rink

Brooke S. Rink is an associate at Schertler Onorato Mead Sears & Manning in Washington, DC. Her practice includes white-collar criminal defense and government investigations, civil litigation, appellate litigation, and criminal defense. Brooke joined the firm in 2023 after clerking for Criminal Division Senior Judges in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. Her experience gives her familiarity with criminal procedure, judicial decision-making, and the demands of defending clients in serious investigations and contested proceedings.

Brooke graduated from George Washington University Law School, where she was a published member of the Federal Communications Law Journal. She also served as a student attorney in the school’s Prisoner and Reentry Clinic. She completed her undergraduate education at Florida State University. Her law-school work combined legal writing, client representation, and clinical advocacy, providing a foundation for criminal defense, appellate work, and litigation involving complex factual and procedural issues.

Brooke represented a client seeking compassionate release in federal district court while working through the Prisoner and Reentry Clinic. During law school, she also interned at the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland. After graduation, she served from 2021 to 2023 as a judicial law clerk to Criminal Division Senior Judges in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. These roles exposed her to defense advocacy, prosecution, judicial analysis, and federal and local criminal proceedings.

Brooke S. Rink is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia. Her background combines judicial-clerkship experience with clinical representation and work connected to federal prosecution. She now applies that foundation to white-collar investigations, criminal defense, civil disputes, and appeals. Her experience on different sides of the criminal justice process supports careful analysis of evidence, procedure, and legal arguments while helping clients respond to investigations, court proceedings, and other high-stakes legal challenges.

Law Office Affiliations

• Attorney, Schertler Onorato Mead Sears & Manning
• Member, District of Columbia Bar

Licensed State

• District of Columbia

Education

• Florida State University
  Bachelor’s degree

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