About Elena
Elena Fast built a legal path that moves quickly from courtroom floors to the management table. She earned a B.S. from the University of Massachusetts–Boston in 2009 and completed her J.D. at New York Law School in 2013. Those years set the stage for a career that crosses state and federal lines.
After law school she joined the Kings County District Attorney’s Office as an Assistant District Lawyer in 2014. That early time in a busy prosecutor’s office gave her direct courtroom experience and regular contact with trials, pleas and pretrial litigation. She left public service to enter private practice a few years later and took on managerial responsibilities that broadened her day-to-day work.
By 2018 she was the managing partner at The Blanch Law Office, where she handled an array of cases while running the firm’s operations. In 2021 she opened The Fast Law Office as founding partner and shifted full-time into leading her own practice. The sequence of roles shows a move from public-sector litigation to leadership in private law practice.
Her admissions list is long and practical. She is admitted in New York and New Jersey and appears in multiple federal districts, including the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, the Northern District of New York and the Western District of New York. Her federal admissions extend to the District of New Jersey, the Northern District of Illinois and the District of Connecticut. She also has admission to the 2nd and 3rd Circuits and to the U.S. Supreme Court. That combination allows work on matters that cross state lines and travel into appellate and federal forums.
Fast’s professional memberships reflect her legal interests. She holds membership in the New Jersey State Bar since 2013. She joined the Federal Bar Council in 2019, and she is a member of the New York City Criminal Bar Association since 2020. Those affiliations indicate continuing involvement in both federal practice circles and the local criminal law community.
Her career shows steady progression: courtroom work in a major district attorney’s office, firm leadership, then founding a practice. She practices in both state and federal courts across several jurisdictions and handles litigation and appellate matters permitted by her admissions. She currently handles matters in the state and federal courts where she is admitted.
