Arika Song is a Senior Associate in Drew Eckl & Farnham’s Atlanta office. She practices civil defense litigation in state and federal courts, focusing her practice areas in premises liability, dramshop, school board/gov’t liability, and environmental regulatory/compliance issues.
Arika earned her J.D. from the two-year accelerated law program (SCALE) at Southwestern Law School, concentrating in Public International Law, and her B.A. from New York University. During law school, Arika clerked for the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office, Hardcore Gang and Crimes Against Peace Officers units, where she worked on cases involving gang crimes targeting police officers. Arika also clerked for the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) where she worked with her supervising attorneys to draft amicus curiae briefs for submission to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES).
Arika began her legal career practicing international environmental regulatory and compliance law with a firm in Washington D.C., and has worked in-house, where she advised Fortune 500 corporations on compliance issues related to environmental, human rights, health, and safety issues for their operations throughout the U.S. and South Korea.