About Elena
Elena Rivkin is a California lawyer who has been active in the local bar community since the mid-2000s. She joined the State Bar of California in 2006 and maintains memberships in several professional organizations that tie her work to the Silicon Valley legal scene.
Her early career moved quickly into practice leadership. In 2007 she founded the Franz Law Office. That venture put her in the role of creating client relationships and running a small practice. The next year she joined Pratt & Associates as a lawyer, stepping into a different firm environment and a new caseload.
Rivkin spent 2011 at The Mlnarik Law Group, where she continued to develop her legal practice inside an established team. In 2012 she took a position at the Rivkin Firm, which remains listed as her office. Those years show a pattern of alternating between founding a practice and working within firms, experience that informs how she manages client matters and firm operations.
Beyond her firm work, Rivkin has been visible in county and specialty bar groups. She served as Chair of the Santa Clara County Bar Association’s Solo & Small Firm Section in 2008 and then as Co-Chair of the same section starting in 2009, a role she still holds. She has belonged to the Silicon Valley Bar Association since 2007 and to the American Bar Association since 2006. She also served on the BNI leadership team from 2007 to 2009. These positions reflect sustained engagement with the region’s legal community over many years.
Colleagues describe her approach as practical. She has experience running a small office and integrating into larger firm practices. That combination gives her familiarity with both client-facing responsibilities and the administrative demands of practice management. She is comfortable in committee and organizational roles, having chaired and co-chaired a key county section and taken on leadership duties in professional networks.
Rivkin’s public record centers on steady participation in California’s bar organizations and a career path that includes founding a practice and moving through several firms before arriving at her current office. She continues to be involved in Santa Clara County’s bar activities while maintaining her legal practice in California.
Her current practice focuses on serving clients through the Rivkin Firm in California.
