Biography
CoursesNicole LehtmanDirector, UCDC Law Program
B.A. University of Miami, 1996
J.D. American University, Washington College of Law, 2000
lehtman@law.ucla.eduNicole Lehtman is Director of the UCDC Law Program, a consortium established in 2009 to give law students from UCLA, Berkeley, Davis and Irvine a full-time, full-semester externship experience in Washington, D.C. Prior to joining the UCDC Law Program, she served as the first program manager and adjunct professor for the Arizona State University, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law’s Washington DC Legal Externship Program. In that position, Lehtman was responsible for counseling law students from across the country on available externship opportunities with the federal government and DC-based non-profit organizations; and provided students with support and guidance throughout their time in Washington, DC. She also has served as an adjunct professor in the Trial Advocacy program at American University’s Washington College of Law.
Lehtman has extensive government experience working as a federal prosecutor in the U.S. Department of Justice. Most recently, she served as a trial attorney in the Justice Department's Criminal Division and previously served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Columbia. Lehtman is a graduate, cum laude, of American University’s Washington College of Law and of the University of Miami where she graduated, with honors, with a degree in Political Science and International Studies.