Deuel Ross
Voting Rights · Redistricting · Education
Deuel Ross is Director of Litigation at the Legal Defense Fund, where he co-leads the litigation department and works on voting rights and educational opportunity.
Amal Clooney
International law and human rights
Voting Rights · Redistricting · Education
Deuel Ross is Director of Litigation at the Legal Defense Fund, where he co-leads the litigation department and works on voting rights and educational opportunity.
Civil Rights · Plaintiff Litigation
Daryl D. Parks practices with Parks Law in Tallahassee.
Supreme Court · Constitutional Litigation
Pamela S. Karlan is a Stanford Law School professor and co-director of its Supreme Court Litigation Clinic.
Wildfire Litigation · Mass Torts
Gerald Singleton is a managing attorney at Singleton Schreiber.
Juvenile Sentencing · Constitutional Litigation
Bryan A. Stevenson is founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative.
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Catastrophic Injury & Wrongful Death
Mohamad Ahmad tries catastrophic-injury, wrongful-death, negligent-security, electrical-injury, and business disputes.
Child-abuse accountability & Youth sports
B. Robert Allard represents survivors in child-abuse, school-accountability, and youth-sports litigation.
Construction Accidents & Catastrophic Injury
Richard P. Amico tries and appeals New York cases involving construction accidents, catastrophic injury, motor-vehicle crashes, defective products, wrongful death, and Labor Law claims.
Equal pay & Employment class actions
Lori E. Andrus represents workers and consumers in equal-pay, employment class-action, complex plaintiff, pharmaceutical, and mass-tort litigation.
immigration detention & due process
Ahilan T. Arulanantham has shaped due process in immigration detention through Nadarajah, Franco-Gonzalez, Jennings, TPS litigation, and teaching at UCLA Law.
Health Care Fraud · Whistleblower Litigation
Marcella Auerbach represents health care whistleblowers at Nolan Auerbach & White after more than twenty-five years at the Justice Department.
privacy litigation & tracking technology
Rafey S. Balabanian handles privacy, biometric, TCPA, consumer-protection, and class-action litigation at Edelson PC.
Civil Rights & Catastrophic Injury
Beth G. Baldinger represents people harmed by police misconduct, failures to protect, catastrophic injury, and abuse in foster care.
Police Misconduct & Wrongful Death
Justin T. Bamberg represents victims in civil-rights and wrongful-death cases involving video evidence, disputed official accounts, municipal liability, immunity, settlement funds, and restitution.
Private Markets & Securities Law
Daniel E. Baron advises on private-market data, financial technology, securities, fund governance, digital assets, and cross-border transactions.
Shareholder Litigation & Securities Litigation
Randall J. Baron represents shareholders in merger trials and litigation involving investment-bank liability and board accountability.
ERISA & ESOPs
R. Joseph Barton represents employees and plan participants in ESOP, pension, and ERISA litigation.
Securities Fraud Litigation & Corporate Governance
Eric J. Belfi represents investors in securities and governance matters and serves as chair of Labaton Keller Sucharow.
Workers’ Rights & Appellate Advocacy
Jennifer D. Bennett argued GEO Group v. Menocal and Flowers Foods v. Brock, appellate cases examining government contractors, forced arbitration, interlocutory review, and whether workers’ claims remain in court.
Consumer-Finance & Banking Litigation
Leonard A. Bennett’s plaintiff-side work spans credit reporting, debt collection, individual verdicts, and high-cost lending cases.
PFAS & Water Contamination Litigation
Esther E. Berezofsky litigates environmental mass-tort claims involving PFAS, lead-contaminated water, and other toxic exposures for families, property owners, and public clients.
Securities Fraud & Shareholder Rights
Max W. Berger represents institutional investors in securities-fraud and shareholder cases involving corporate gatekeepers, governance reforms, settlement administration, and distribution.
Class Actions & Antitrust
Steve W. Berman litigates class actions involving antitrust, consumer protection, mass torts, college-athlete compensation, and emerging technologies.
Global Shareholder Litigation & Securities Fraud
Stuart L. Berman leads Kessler Topaz’s global shareholder-litigation practice, guiding public funds and other large investors through active claims, group proceedings, and direct actions across jurisdictions.
Federal Officers & Fourth Amendment Claims
Anya Bidwell litigates constitutional tort, retaliation, and government-immunity cases, including Martin v. United States and Gonzalez v. Trevino.
Appellate Advocacy & Forced Arbitration
F. Paul Bland has spent decades keeping consumer cases alive through fights over forced arbitration, removal, mootness, preemption, and class treatment.
Securities Fraud Litigation & Shareholder Derivative Litigation
Javier Bleichmar evaluates and litigates securities-fraud class actions and shareholder-derivative cases seeking corporate relief.
Worker rights & Wrongful termination
Lawrance A. Bohm is the founder of Bohm Law Group and a plaintiff-side employment trial lawyer in Sacramento.
Shareholder Rights Litigation & Securities Fraud Litigation
Rebecca E. Boon uses securities and derivative litigation to connect workplace misconduct with board oversight, investor disclosure, and enforceable corporate duties.
False Claims Act · Whistleblower Retaliation
Julie Keeton Bracker represents whistleblowers in False Claims Act and retaliation cases, including health care, pandemic relief and cybersecurity matters.
Product Liability Appeals & Class Actions
Leslie A. Brueckner handles appeals involving product safety, consumer class actions, medical warnings, newsgathering rights, environmental remedies, and federal preemption.
Securities Fraud Litigation & Investor Class Actions
Spencer A. Burkholz has tried securities claims to a jury and litigated structured-finance, health-care, banking, and drug-distribution cases for investors.
Wrongful Convictions & Exoneration
Tricia Rojo Bushnell leads wrongful-conviction and justice-reform efforts involving exoneration, compensation, records relief, reentry, prosecutor review, and safeguards against future wrongful convictions.
Consumer Class Actions & Product Defects
Elizabeth J. Cabraser led the Volkswagen Clean Diesel consumer settlements, whose buyback, repair, and claims design returned more than $9.5 billion.
Reproductive Rights · Constitutional Litigation
Susan Talcott Camp litigates reproductive-rights cases. In Edwards v. Beck, she defended physicians challenging Arkansas’s twelve-week abortion prohibition.
Securities Fraud Litigation & Public Pension Fund Litigation
Michael P. Canty’s investor-side record spans pharmaceutical, technology, insurance, and acquisition-related securities cases developed toward trial.
Health Care Fraud · Tax · Whistleblowers
David J. Caputo represents whistleblowers in health care and tax fraud cases and catastrophic injury clients at Youman & Caputo in Philadelphia.
Police Misconduct & Child-Abuse Litigation
Luis Carrillo has spent decades trying California civil-rights, police-misconduct, child-abuse, catastrophic-injury, and wrongful-death cases.
data privacy & biometric privacy
Katrina Carroll represents consumers in data-privacy, biometric-privacy, consumer-fraud, product-liability, and class-action litigation.
Catastrophic Injury & Medical Malpractice
Matt Casey tries catastrophic-injury cases involving premises liability, medical negligence, defective products, abuse in care settings, industrial explosions, and insurance bad faith.
Disability rights & Workplace accommodation
Claudia Center advances disability rights through workplace accommodation, education access, appellate advocacy, and systemic remedies.
data breach & pay equity
Eve H. Cervantez represents workers and consumers in class actions involving data breaches, pay equity, privacy, wages, and civil rights.
Global Securities & Portfolio Monitoring
Darren J. Check helps public funds and other large investors identify securities claims, manage portfolio data, and choose among class, direct, opt-in, arbitration, and cross-border recovery paths.
International law and human rights
Amal Clooney represented a Yazidi survivor in the first genocide conviction of an Islamic State member.
False Claims Act & Health care fraud
Mary Louise Cohen helped build a national whistleblower practice under the False Claims Act, spanning health care and government contracting.
Criminal Trials & Constitutional Rights
Patrick J. Collins’s Delaware criminal-defense record includes a complete acquittal in the Vaughn prison-uprising prosecution, major suppression rulings, and Sixth Amendment litigation over seized defense materials.
Securities Litigation & Investor Fraud
Joseph W. Cotchett represents investors in financial litigation and has more than six decades of trial experience.
Antitrust & Class Actions
Eric L. Cramer litigates plaintiff-side antitrust class actions involving UFC fighter pay, chicken-grower compensation, fleet-card fees, and college financial aid.
Excessive Force & Protest Rights Claims
Mawuli Davis litigates Atlanta civil-rights and criminal cases involving police violence, protest rights, wrongful death, Tasers, no-knock raids, and accountability-court reform.
Mesothelioma & Product Liability Trials
Jessica M. Dean tries mesothelioma and cosmetic-talc cases involving expert evidence, successor liability, damages, verdict preservation, and appellate review.
Civil Rights · Employment · Pay Equity
Kelly M. Dermody is a Lieff Cabraser partner and Managing Partner of its San Francisco office.
Patient safety & Sexual abuse in medical settings
Anthony T. DiPietro represents patients and survivors in abuse litigation involving hospitals, universities, and medical practices.
Civil Rights & Catastrophic Injury
Michelle R. DiSilvestro tries civil-rights, police-misconduct, aviation, toxic-tort, medical-malpractice, and wrongful-death cases.
Public Records & Transparency Litigation
Donald M. Doherty Jr. litigates New Jersey public-records and appellate matters involving email logs, production formats, copying charges, requester enforcement, and OPRA appeals.
Healthcare M&A & Physician Transactions
G. Kirk Domescik structures healthcare transactions involving hospital affiliations, physician-practice sales, facility portfolios, private equity, joint ventures, and governance.
PFAS & Water Contamination Litigation
Gary J. Douglas has tried landmark PFAS contamination cases and led public-water claims in the federal AFFF litigation.
Securities Fraud Litigation & Investor Class Actions
Michael J. Dowd has taken disputed securities facts through jury trial, post-trial judgment, appeal, remand, and a final class resolution.
data breach litigation & privacy litigation
E. Michelle Drake represents consumers in data-breach, privacy, credit-reporting, background-check, and class-action litigation.
Securities Fraud & Trial Counsel
Daniel S. Drosman brings a prosecutor’s trial discipline to investor cases, with a record spanning Household, Twitter, First Solar, mortgage-backed securities, and credit ratings.
Securities Fraud Litigation
Thomas A. Dubbs litigates securities and commodities appeals involving territorial scope, class certification, price impact, loss causation, and disclosure remedies.
Environmental & Consumer Litigation
Wilson M. Dunlavey litigates environmental torts, consumer fraud, product liability, climate-related claims, and class actions.
Health Care Fraud · Pharmaceutical Whistleblowers
Suzanne E. Durrell represents whistleblowers in pharmaceutical and health care fraud cases after leading civil enforcement in the Boston U.S. Attorney's Office.
Constitutional Tort Claims & Unlawful Detention
Hugh A. Eastwood litigates constitutional-tort and government-misconduct cases in Missouri state and federal trial and appellate courts.
Policyholder Recovery & Insurance Bad-Faith Litigation
Ricardo Echeverria has tried policyholder cases involving property losses, health coverage, liability-insurer settlement duties, and claim handling.
Consumer Privacy & Technology Class Actions
Jay Edelson litigated claims over Facebook’s use of biometric data, placing product design and consent at the center of Illinois privacy law.
Crime-victim rights & Trafficking accountability
Bradley J. Edwards represents crime victims in CVRA litigation and civil trafficking-accountability cases involving financial organizations.
Shareholder Litigation & Corporate Governance
Jay W. Eisenhofer litigates shareholder cases involving corporate-ballot access, defensive measures, and the enforcement of governance rights.
Securities Litigation & Antitrust Litigation
Michael B. Eisenkraft litigates securities and antitrust matters involving trading systems, market structure, mortgage-backed securities, and complex financial products.
election law & voting access
Marc E. Elias leads high-stakes election litigation across voting access, redistricting, recounts, certification, and constitutional election law.
FINRA Arbitration & Securities Litigation
Miami securities lawyer Jeffrey Erez builds investor cases around the mechanics of complex products, the communications used to sell them, and the supervision behind the accounts.
Gender equality & Title IX athletics
Noreen Farrell leads Equal Rights Advocates, pursuing gender equity through Title IX litigation, equal-pay legislation, and workplace civil-rights advocacy.
Securities Litigation & Initial Public Offerings
Alfred L. Fatale III litigates securities claims arising from public offerings through class certification, discovery, expert work, mediation, and judicial approval.
Class Actions & Mass Torts
Elizabeth A. Fegan represents plaintiffs in class actions and mass torts involving injuries dispersed across large groups.
Custodial Medical Care & Wrongful Convictions
Jonathan H. Feinberg litigates civil-rights cases involving custodial medical care, wrongful conviction, fabricated evidence, immigration detention, the right to record police, and constitutional appeals.
Medical Malpractice & Catastrophic Injury
Eugene Felton Jr. tries and appeals catastrophic-injury cases involving hospital negligence, paralysis, negligent security, official immunity, and sovereign immunity.
Equal pay & Workplace discrimination
James M. Finberg represents employees in class and collective actions involving equal pay, discrimination, wage-and-hour law, and voting rights.
Public Entity & Environmental Litigation
John Fiske represents public entities in wildfire recovery, environmental contamination, opioid litigation, school-district claims, public-nuisance actions, bankruptcy proceedings, and coordinated litigation.
Lead Paint & Toxic Exposure Litigation
Fidelma L. Fitzpatrick tries lead-paint, toxic-exposure, women’s health, and medical-device cases and has held leadership roles in major mass torts.
Securities Fraud Litigation & Investor-Side Litigation
Joseph A. Fonti’s practice joins pension-fund and investor stewardship with class certification, appellate advocacy, and trial-ready securities litigation.
Securities Fraud Litigation & Investor Class Actions
Jason A. Forge’s securities practice combines appellate reversals, jury verdicts, and discovery-driven preparation against major public companies.
Securities fraud class actions & Investor litigation
Christine M. Fox represents investors in securities class actions, directing investigation, discovery, settlement approval, and claims administration.
Custodial Deaths & Civil Rights Claims
Lauren I. Freidenberg-McBride litigates civil-rights cases involving custodial death, medical neglect, excessive force, unlawful detention, habeas relief, and systemic reform.
Wrongful Convictions & Fabricated Evidence
Emma Freudenberger tries civil-rights cases involving coerced confessions, fabricated identifications, suppressed DNA, custodial deaths, municipal liability, and relief after exoneration.
Stockholder Litigation & Fiduciary Duty
Joel Friedlander prosecutes Delaware stockholder cases through trial and appeal, with a record including Rural/Metro, Activision Blizzard, and Mindbody.
Consumer protection & Data privacy
Andrew N. Friedman represents consumers in privacy, data breach, digital advertising and product class actions at Cohen Milstein.
Employment discrimination & Civil rights
Linda D. Friedman represents workers in employment discrimination, civil-rights, class-action, and collective litigation.
Toxic Torts & Expert Evidence
Scott R. Frieling tries and appeals toxic-tort cases involving benzene, asbestos, PCBs, pesticides, industrial exposure, expert evidence, and latent disease.
Human Rights Litigation & Corporate Accountability
Agnieszka Fryszman’s plaintiff-side human-rights practice builds jurisdictional and evidentiary paths for forced-labor, trafficking, torture, and killing claims.
Transportation & Premises Liability Claims
Cassie Preston Gailmor represents plaintiffs in transportation, premises-liability, workplace-injury, construction, and insurance disputes.
Survivor Representation · Civil Litigation
Mitchell Garabedian represents survivors in clergy, school, scouting and other abuse cases from Boston, Massachusetts.
Securities Fraud Litigation
Jonathan Gardner represents public pension funds and other investors in securities matters involving Uber, Barrick, Hewlett-Packard, Endo, Lehman Brothers, MF Global, and options backdating.
Police Shootings & Abuse Claims
Neil Gehlawat tries cases involving police shootings, restraint deaths, sexual assault, wrongful death, and abuse or safety failures in schools and care settings.
Immigrants’ Rights · Family Reunification · Civil Litigation
Lee Gelernt litigates immigrants’ rights, asylum, family-integrity, detention and constitutional cases as Deputy Director of the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project.
AI copyright litigation & financial privacy
Rachel Geman represents authors, consumers, workers, whistleblowers, and public entities in copyright, privacy, employment, and False Claims Act litigation.
Civil Rights · Marriage Equality · Police Accountability
Alphonse A. Gerhardstein represents people in civil-rights, marriage-equality and police-accountability litigation from Cincinnati.
Disability Access & Workers’ Rights
Karla Gilbride litigates civil-rights and appellate matters involving disability access, workers’ rights, arbitration, federal enforcement, administrative law, and access to courts.
Securities Litigation & Derivative Actions
Carol V. Gilden is a Cohen Milstein partner who represents public funds and other large investors in securities class actions, derivative cases, and disputes involving domestic and cross-border financial instruments.
Securities Litigation & Cross-Border Litigation
Emma Gilmore’s securities practice combines cross-border evidence development, appellate doctrine, and close control of the pleading record.
Whistleblowers · Health Care · Government Contracts
Janet L. Goldstein represents whistleblowers in health care, pharmaceutical and government-contract False Claims Act cases.
Defamation & Election Worker Litigation
Michael J. Gottlieb represented Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss through discovery sanctions, a damages trial, an injunction, bankruptcy enforcement, and satisfaction of their defamation judgment.
Jail Abuse & Custodial Wrongful Death
Sarah Grady tries and appeals Chicago civil-rights cases involving jail and prison deaths, sexual assault, excessive force, and denied medical care.
Securities Fraud Litigation & Public Pension Fund Litigation
Salvatore J. Graziano builds securities cases through deep factual records, trial preparation, and a prosecutor’s instinct for the story judges and juries need to understand.
Criminal Defense & Civil Rights Litigation
Lawrence Greenberg tries criminal-defense, civil-rights, catastrophic-injury, wrongful-death, DUI, and medical-malpractice cases in Maryland.
False Claims Act & Pharmaceutical fraud
Thomas M. Greene represents whistleblowers in False Claims Act and pharmaceutical fraud litigation, including the litigation over Neurontin marketing.
Environmental Litigation & Toxic Exposure
Robin Greenwald’s plaintiff-side environmental practice confronts the long interval between toxic exposure, diagnosis, proof, and an enforceable civil remedy.
Securities Fraud Litigation & Investor Class Actions
Tor Gronborg’s securities practice joins trial work, appellate pleading, electronic discovery, and large-scale investor recoveries across technology, pharmaceuticals, and insurance.
Criminal Defense & Forensic Evidence
Christa J. Groshek defends criminal and juvenile cases involving forensic interviews, source-code evidence, suppression, statutory interpretation, and proof beyond a reasonable doubt.
Mesothelioma & Asbestos Causation
John Paul Guinan litigates mesothelioma and toxic-exposure cases involving take-home asbestos, cosmetic talc, product causation, and abuse claims.
Appellate advocacy & Consumer protection
Deepak Gupta’s appellate practice represents consumers, workers, and civil-rights plaintiffs in Supreme Court cases and the defense of trial judgments.
Whistleblower & False Claims Act Litigation
Reuben A. Guttman is a Washington plaintiffs’ lawyer whose practice includes whistleblower, False Claims Act, complex civil and class-action litigation.
Police Shootings & Civil Rights Claims
Michael J. Haddad tries and appeals civil-rights cases involving police shootings, restraint deaths, jail and prison abuse, catastrophic injury, and constitutional claims.
Securities Litigation & Direct Actions
Serena P. Hallowell leads direct actions and securities cases for major investors, with a record spanning class recoveries, opt-outs, and New Jersey RICO claims.
Civil Rights & Government Liability
Cary J. Hansel tries and appeals civil-rights cases involving false confessions, jail violence, government liability, school safety, class claims, and revived claims by abuse survivors.
Sexual harassment & Employment discrimination
Genie Harrison represents employees and survivors in sexual-harassment, discrimination, retaliation, equal-pay, wrongful-termination, and sexual-abuse litigation.
Cross-Border Securities Litigation
James A. Harrod treats cross-border securities work as a problem of mapping: identify the transaction, the governing law, the available forum, and the investor’s actual recovery path before litigation begins.
Antitrust & Collective redress
Michael D. Hausfeld’s collective litigation spans antitrust, human rights, environmental harm, and the commercial use of college athletes’ likenesses.
Asbestos Litigation & Appellate Advocacy
Jared Hausmann litigates asbestos and mesothelioma cases involving discovery, causation disputes, post-trial motions, appeals, and amicus advocacy.
Government Contracts · Healthcare Fraud
Eric R. Havian represents whistleblowers in government contracting, healthcare fraud and bid-rigging cases, including litigation pursued without government intervention.
Mass Torts & Multi-Plaintiff Trials
Dara Hegar manages mass-tort litigation involving multi-plaintiff trials, product liability, negotiations with public entities, settlement allocation, and national case strategy.
Securities Litigation & Shareholder Derivative Actions
Richard M. Heimann represents investors in securities trials and shareholder derivative litigation, including the Wells Fargo settlement.
Survivor Compensation & Civil Trials
Brittany Henderson represents trafficking survivors in civil trials, confidential compensation programs, and litigation against financial organizations.
disability rights & accessibility
Eve Hill advances disability rights, accessible technology, LGBTQ+ equality, voting access, and enforceable civil-rights remedies.
Wrongful Convictions & Fabricated Evidence
Anna Benvenutti Hoffmann litigates wrongful-conviction and police-fabrication cases in federal trial and appellate courts nationwide.
Catastrophic Injury & Wrongful Death
Arash Homampour tries catastrophic-injury and wrongful-death cases involving defective products, public-entity liability, comparative fault, and appellate review.
Hurricane insurance & Commercial insurance
John W. Houghtaling II represents commercial policyholders in hurricane and property insurance disputes, with a practice built around policy evidence.
Voting Rights · Constitutional Law · Racial Justice
Sherrilyn A. Ifill is Howard Law’s Vernon Jordan Distinguished Professor in Civil Rights and founding director of the 14th Amendment Center for Law & Democracy.
False Claims Act & Whistleblower Litigation
Mary Inman is a San Francisco whistleblower lawyer whose practice includes the False Claims Act, Medicare Advantage risk adjustment and government reward programs.
Mesothelioma & Environmental Asbestos
Sam Iola represents people and families in mesothelioma cases involving environmental asbestos, industrial talc, and other product exposures.
Immigrants’ Rights · Constitutional Litigation
Omar C. Jadwat directs the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project and litigates asylum, entry restrictions, immigration enforcement, and constitutional claims.
First Amendment & Government transparency
Jameel Jaffer’s First Amendment and transparency practice spans surveillance litigation, government records, and the Knight First Amendment Institute.
Civil Rights & Emergency Injunctions
Arash Jahanian directs advocacy at Colorado Legal Services and litigates civil-rights matters involving detention, prison health, police use of force, housing privacy, free speech, and religious land use.
Medical Malpractice & Aviation Accidents
Lane R. Jubb Jr. tries medical-malpractice, aviation, defamation, Title IX, civil-rights, and wrongful-use-of-civil-proceedings cases.
Class Actions & Disaster Litigation
Brian S. Kabateck litigates class actions, mass torts, insurance disputes, consumer claims, catastrophic injury, and disaster cases.
Police Misconduct & Jail Civil Rights
Randall Kallinen litigates civil-rights cases in Houston involving federal tort claims, police misconduct, jail safety, compelled speech, public records, trials, and appeals.
Tribal sovereignty & Treaty rights
Riyaz Kanji represents tribal nations in federal Indian law, treaty-rights litigation, and Supreme Court cases including McGirt v. Oklahoma.
Constitutional Litigation · Money Bail · Civil Rights
Alec Karakatsanis leads Civil Rights Corps and litigates constitutional challenges to money bail, fines, fees, and wealth-based pretrial detention.
Supreme Court · Constitutional Litigation
Pamela S. Karlan is a Stanford Law School professor and co-director of its Supreme Court Litigation Clinic.
Reproductive Rights · Medication Access
Julia Kaye litigates reproductive-rights cases at the ACLU, including the challenge to mandatory clinical pickup of mifepristone during the COVID-19 emergency.
Workplace Asbestos & Occupational Disease
Anne McGinness Kearse litigates asbestos, household exposure, occupational disease, product liability, catastrophic workplace injury, and wrongful-death claims.
privacy litigation & cybersecurity
Amy E. Keller represents consumers in privacy, cybersecurity, data-breach, defective-technology, and class-action litigation.
SEC Whistleblower Claims & Enforcement
Erika A. Kelton represents whistleblowers in SEC matters involving overseas tips, related actions, privilege, delay, and award determinations.
Voting Rights Act & Redistricting
Abha Khanna leads redistricting trials and appeals at Elias Law Group, including the Caster plaintiffs’ litigation over Alabama’s congressional map.
International Arbitration & Investor–State Claims
William Kirtley leads Aceris Law in Geneva and acts as counsel and arbitrator in commercial, investor–State, construction, and public-international-law disputes worldwide.
Employment discrimination & Wage and hour
Adam T. Klein represents workers in employment discrimination, wage-and-hour, digital-discrimination, and civil-rights class actions.
Securities Litigation & Shareholder Derivative Actions
Jeroen van Kwawegen represents investors in securities, derivative, and corporate-governance cases through JVK Law, the investor-rights firm he co-founded.
voting rights & redistricting
Sophia Lin Lakin leads the ACLU Voting Rights Project’s national work across redistricting, ballot access, election administration, and voting-rights litigation.
Voting rights & Voter registration
Danielle Lang leads voting-rights litigation at Campaign Legal Center, challenging unlawful voter-roll removals and barriers to election participation.
Securities Litigation & Lead Plaintiff Counseling
Nicole Lavallee represents public funds and other investors in securities class actions, direct actions, and derivative litigation.
Medical Malpractice & Catastrophic Injury
Patricia A. Law litigates California medical-malpractice, product-liability, wrongful-death, insurance-bad-faith, and appellate cases.
Protest Rights & Mass Arrest Litigation
Rachel Lederman litigates civil-rights cases involving protest policing, mass arrest, youth detention, projectile weapons, class claims, campus bans, and electronic privacy.
Securities Fraud Class Actions & Investor Recovery
Jeremy A. Lieberman represents investors in cross-border securities cases involving class certification, domestic transactions, foreign law, and recovery.
Mesothelioma & Toxic Tort Appeals
Amber R. Long tries and appeals cases involving asbestos, toxic exposure, and abuse in residential treatment facilities.
Civil Rights & Title IX
Ilann M. Maazel represents plaintiffs in Title IX, gender-violence, civil-rights, and appellate litigation.
Survivor Accountability & Organizational Liability
John C. Manly leads survivor litigation involving USA Gymnastics, USC, Michigan State, and the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.
Employment Discrimination & Pay Equity
Deborah K. Marcuse litigates employment discrimination, pay equity, Title IX, class actions, forced arbitration, immigration detention, and civil-rights claims.
Police Misconduct & Catastrophic Injury
Garo Mardirossian tries and appeals civil-rights and catastrophic-injury cases involving police misconduct, defective products, and dangerous roadways.
Child-Victim Rights & Online Exploitation
James R. Marsh represents survivors in restitution, online-exploitation, civil-rights, and federal legislative matters.
Sexual-abuse class actions & Policy reform
Annika K. Martin represents survivors in class actions involving universities, residential-care facilities, and alleged AI-generated sexual exploitation.
Plaintiffs’ Litigation & Defamation
Christopher M. Mattei served as lead counsel for the Sandy Hook families against Alex Jones and represents plaintiffs in medical-malpractice and election litigation.
Health Technology · False Claims Act
Colette G. Matzzie represents whistleblowers in health technology, pharmaceutical and government-contract fraud cases at Phillips & Cohen.
Human trafficking & Platform accountability
Annie McAdams has pursued survivor-side trafficking claims against online platforms, hotels, and other businesses under Texas Chapter 98.
Sex Trafficking Claims & Bank Accountability
Sigrid S. McCawley helped Epstein survivors pursue claims against JPMorgan, Deutsche Bank, and Bank of America by tracing transactions, internal warnings, delayed reports, and the banks’ alleged knowledge.
Product Liability & Catastrophic Injury
Daniel McGee tries product-liability, catastrophic-injury, brain and spinal injury, toxic-tort, and wrongful-death cases.
Plaintiff Trial Practice & Trucking Safety
Randi McGinn’s plaintiff-side trial practice includes trucking-safety, product-liability, and medical-negligence cases built around engineering and medical evidence.
Civil Rights · Employment Equality
Sharon McGowan leads policy and litigation at the Human Rights Campaign.
PFAS & Drinking Water Litigation
Ned McWilliams litigates PFAS drinking-water, environmental, and pharmaceutical mass-tort cases from Pensacola, Florida.
Employment discrimination & Equal pay
Felicia M. Medina represents workers in employment discrimination, equal-pay, retaliation, wage-and-hour, and class-action litigation.
Civil Rights · Employment · Workplace Reform
Cyrus Mehri is a founding partner of Mehri & Skalet and co-founder of Working IDEAL.
Property insurance & Policyholder advocacy
Chip Merlin represents policyholders after catastrophic property losses and writes about the evidence and coverage rules behind insurance claims.
Investor Fraud & FINRA Arbitration
David P. Meyer represents investors in fraud and FINRA matters from liability hearings through appeal and collection.
Securities Fraud & Shareholder Rights
Mark C. Molumphy represents investors in securities and governance matters involving discovery, trial preparation, and negotiated resolutions.
Child sexual abuse & Institutional trials
Paul A. Mones represents child-sexual-abuse survivors in institutional trials, settlements, and bankruptcy-trust proceedings.
Plaintiff Trial Practice & Structural Collapse
Robert Mongeluzzi’s plaintiff-side practice reconstructs structural and transportation failures, then confronts the difficult remedial questions that follow mass injury.
Human Rights · International Litigation
Kimberley Motley is an international litigator and founder of The Justness Project.
FINRA Arbitration & Individual Investor Claims
Peter Mougey represents individual investors in FINRA arbitration, including disputes over panel selection, discovery, disclosure, public records, and regulatory oversight.
Consumer privacy & Data breaches
Andre M. Mura litigates privacy, consumer, and public-law cases at Gibbs Mura, combining trial advocacy with appeals over complex claims and remedies.
Tribal sovereignty & Federal Indian law
Mary Kathryn Nagle’s appellate advocacy, tribal-sovereignty work, and Native playwriting connect federal Indian law with the safety of Native women and children.
Voting Rights & Constitutional Litigation
Janai S. Nelson argued Louisiana v. Callais and leads the Legal Defense Fund through the changing constitutional law of voting rights, redistricting, and democratic participation.
Casino Patron Rights & False Imprisonment
Robert A. Nersesian represents casino patrons and advantage players in false-imprisonment, property, gaming-law, and constitutional cases nationwide.
Civil Rights & Custodial Deaths
Mari Newman tries and appeals civil-rights and employment cases involving police use of force, jail and prison abuse, disability rights, medical care in custody, and pregnancy protections.
Securities Fraud & Investor Claims
Sharan Nirmul represents investors in securities class actions built through discovery, expert proof, trial preparation, and settlement.
Health Care Fraud · Pharmaceutical Litigation
Kenneth J. Nolan represents health care fraud whistleblowers in False Claims Act cases involving pharmaceutical marketing, providers and reimbursement.
Wage and hour & Employment appeals
Monique Olivier represents workers and classes in employment, wage-and-hour, ERISA, civil-rights, consumer, trial, and appellate litigation.
Employment civil rights & Race discrimination
Lawrence Organ is a founding partner of California Civil Rights Law Group and a plaintiff-side employment civil-rights trial lawyer.
Police Misconduct & Constitutional Appeals
Timothy P. O’Brien litigates Pittsburgh civil-rights cases involving police misconduct, municipal custom, jail abuse, recording rights, and constitutional appeals; he also serves as a neutral.
Mesothelioma & Toxic Exposure Litigation
Chris J. Panatier tries toxic-exposure cases involving mesothelioma, asbestos, cosmetic talc, expert causation, damages, and appellate preservation.
Catastrophic Injury & Product Liability Trials
Brian Panish tries catastrophic-injury and product-liability cases involving defective products, corporate safety decisions, and mass-casualty events.
Civil Rights · Plaintiff Litigation
Daryl D. Parks practices with Parks Law in Tallahassee.
Voting Rights & Redistricting
Nina Perales leads MALDEF’s national litigation and litigates voting-rights cases involving redistricting, voter registration, local election systems, and assistance at the polls.
PCB Exposure & School Contamination
Colleen Durkin Peterson tries PCB-exposure and catastrophic-injury cases, including the Sky Valley school litigation in Washington.
Survivor Accountability & Trial Practice
Michael T. Pfau represents survivors in trial and appellate litigation involving platform accountability and organizational transparency.
Securities Litigation & Structured Finance
Jonathan E. Pickhardt litigates complex securities and structured-finance disputes across arbitration, trial, injunction, reformation, and appeal.
Wildfire litigation & Utility disasters
Frank M. Pitre represents people and communities in wildfire, utility disaster and other complex plaintiffs' litigation.
data breach & privacy
James J. Pizzirusso represents plaintiffs in data-breach, privacy, consumer-protection, and class-action litigation.
Police Shootings & Wrongful Death
Adanté Pointer tries civil-rights and employment cases involving police shootings, wrongful death, video evidence, municipal liability, and discrimination.
Securities Litigation & Investor Protection
Laura H. Posner represents public funds and other investors in securities class actions, market-manipulation matters, public enforcement, and fiduciary counseling.
Insurance rates & Proposition 103
Pamela M. Pressley represents California policyholders in insurance rate proceedings and works to preserve public participation under Proposition 103.
immigration detention & constitutional law
Judy Rabinovitz has shaped constitutional limits on immigration detention through Zadvydas, family-separation litigation, asylum advocacy, and decades at the ACLU.
Police Misconduct & Wrongful Death
Siddhartha H. Rathod tries civil-rights cases involving police misconduct, wrongful death, failure to intervene, municipal liability, disability rights, and constitutional claims.
Police Misconduct & Constitutional Litigation
Bhavani K. Raveendran’s civil-rights work includes the Botham Jean verdict, the George Floyd civil action, police-pursuit trials, constitutional appeals, and injunctions.
Immigration Litigation · Federal Appeals
Trina Realmuto leads the National Immigration Litigation Alliance and litigates immigration, detention, damages and government-transparency cases in federal court.
Survivor Accountability & Organizational Disclosure
J. Michael Reck represents survivors in disclosure litigation, coordinated settlements, and bankruptcy claims.
Securities Litigation & Shareholder Rights
Julie G. Reiser represents institutional investors in securities and derivative cases, including the Countrywide mortgage-backed-securities settlement and Alphabet workplace-governance litigation.
Fair Housing & Civil Rights
John P. Relman represents plaintiffs in housing-access, reverse-redlining, discriminatory-lending, land-use, and criminal-record-screening cases.
wage and hour & living wage
Randy Renick represents workers in wage-and-hour, living-wage, employment, and class-action litigation.
Civil Rights · Police Accountability · Public Safety
Constance Rice's Los Angeles civil-rights work connects police accountability, public records and community violence prevention.
ERISA & pensions
Kai H. Richter litigates pension, 401(k), ESOP, and health-benefit matters at trial and on appeal for employees and plan participants.
Wildfire litigation & Pipeline explosions
Amanda L. Riddle represents wildfire and disaster survivors, connecting large utility cases with the proof of each household's losses.
Securities Fraud Litigation
John Rizio-Hamilton litigates securities matters involving Signet, Archegos, banks, bonds, iRhythm, and Silvergate and co-leads his firm’s securities department.
Securities Fraud & Trial Readiness
Darren J. Robbins litigates securities cases from initial investigation through jury trial, appeal, claims administration, and settlement, including the fourteen-year Household matter.
Securities Fraud Litigation & Shareholder Rights
Jeremy P. Robinson represents shareholders in appeals, jury trials, financial-product discovery, and corporate-governance litigation.
Catastrophic Injury & Wrongful Death
Tommy D. Roebig tries Florida civil cases involving catastrophic injury, wrongful death, premises liability, liquor liability, and trucking collisions.
Workers’ Compensation & Occupational Disease
Edgar N. Romano represents workers in occupational-disease, asbestos, industrial-exposure, and World Trade Center claims, including administrative and appellate review.
Medicare Advantage · Tax · Cybersecurity
Michael Ronickher represents whistleblowers in Medicare Advantage, tax, financial fraud and cybersecurity matters at Whistleblower Partners.
Civil Rights & Disability Access
Katherine Rosenfeld litigates New York civil-rights and class actions involving police misconduct, disability and language access, prison abuse, pregnancy restraints, employment, and immigrants’ rights.
Voting Rights · Redistricting · Education
Deuel Ross is Director of Litigation at the Legal Defense Fund, where he co-leads the litigation department and works on voting rights and educational opportunity.
Securities Fraud Litigation
Hannah Ross represents investors in securities litigation involving investigation, discovery, trial preparation, and settlement evaluation.
Workers’ Rights & Appellate Litigation
Michael Rubin represents workers and benefits claimants in appellate, class, and public-interest litigation.
Securities Fraud Litigation & Shareholder Class Actions
Samuel H. Rudman litigates securities class actions and evaluates whether proposed settlements adequately protect shareholders, as reflected in the TD Banknorth litigation.
Police Misconduct & Wrongful Convictions
David Rudovsky litigates police-misconduct, wrongful-conviction, stop-and-frisk, and constitutional cases in Philadelphia and nationwide.
Corporate Governance Litigation & Shareholder Derivative Actions
Lee D. Rudy litigates shareholder cases seeking derivative judgments, class relief, corporate recoveries, and direct investor compensation.
Latino civil rights & voting rights
Thomas A. Saenz leads MALDEF’s national civil-rights work across voting, education, employment, immigrant rights, and enforceable remedies.
Worker rights & Employment class actions
Jahan C. Sagafi is an Outten & Golden partner representing workers in employment class actions, pay-equity, wage-and-hour, and appellate matters.
Employment Discrimination · Retaliation · Trial Practice
David Sanford is Co-Founder and Chairman of Sanford Heisler Sharp McKnight and Co-Chair of its Executive Representation Practice Group.
Securities Litigation & Investor-Side Litigation
Maya Saxena represents investors in securities and derivative litigation involving Wilmington Trust, Wells Fargo, Rayonier, and HD Supply.
ERISA & retirement plans
Jerry Schlichter is the founding and co-managing partner of Schlichter Bogard, known for pioneering ERISA excessive-fee litigation and three unanimous Supreme Court victories.
First Amendment Claims & Emergency Injunctions
Katie Schwartzmann litigates First Amendment, protest-rights, chemical-munitions, jail-conditions, privacy, public-records, immigration-detention, and constitutional cases.
Securities Litigation & Investor-Side Litigation
David R. Scott represents public funds and other investors in securities, mortgage-backed-securities, corporate-governance, and cross-border recovery matters.
Mass Torts & Multidistrict Litigation
Christopher A. Seeger guided the 3M Combat Arms litigation from an unprecedented federal docket to an administered settlement structured around proof, timing, liens, and claimant choice.
Consumer-Finance & Banking Litigation
Jonathan D. Selbin’s plaintiff-side work spans overdraft fees, automated collection calls, and mortgage-market litigation.
Civil Rights · Employment · Class Actions
Joseph M. Sellers is a Cohen Milstein partner and founder and co-chair of its Civil Rights & Employment practice.
National Security · Human Rights · Transparency
Hina Shamsi directs the ACLU National Security Project. Her practice addresses government transparency, constitutional rights and international human rights.
Pay equity & Employment class actions
Anne B. Shaver represents workers and authors in pay-equity, labor-antitrust, retirement-benefit, and AI copyright class actions.
Policyholder Recovery & Insurance Bad-Faith Litigation
William M. Shernoff pioneered insurance bad-faith litigation for policyholders and has handled catastrophe, disability, health, and property-insurance claims.
data privacy & data breach
Norman E. Siegel leads data-privacy, consumer, insurance, and complex class actions from Stueve Siegel Hanson in Kansas City.
Securities Fraud Litigation & Investor Counseling
Gerald H. Silk helps public funds and other large investors decide what a portfolio event means before litigation acquires momentum.
Securities Fraud Litigation & Public Pension Fund Litigation
Katherine M. Sinderson litigates securities cases through pleading, discovery, record development, trial preparation, and settlement evaluation.
Securities Litigation & Investor Class Actions
Steven B. Singer directs securities litigation at Saxena White after a career spanning the WorldCom trial, Bank of America, and major shareholder derivative cases.
Wildfire Litigation · Mass Torts
Gerald Singleton is a managing attorney at Singleton Schreiber.
False Claims Act · Healthcare Fraud
Shelley R. Slade represents whistleblowers in healthcare and pharmaceutical fraud cases, tracing payments and billing records through False Claims Act litigation.
Consumer-Finance & Banking Litigation
Michael W. Sobol’s plaintiff-side banking work spans overdraft trials and appeals, consumer credit, and coordinated litigation.
Securities Litigation & Portfolio Monitoring
Leslie R. Stern’s investor-side practice connects portfolio monitoring and case evaluation with major securities, derivative, and books-and-records matters.
Juvenile Sentencing · Constitutional Litigation
Bryan A. Stevenson is founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative.
Survivor Rights & Marsy’s Law
Morgan A. Stewart represents survivors in criminal proceedings, school-system claims, and coordinated settlements.
Investor Arbitration & Broker Misconduct
Andrew Stoltmann represents investors in arbitration and securities cases and advocates reforms addressing unpaid FINRA awards and investor recovery.
Class Actions & Mass Torts
J. Gerard Stranch IV litigates class actions and mass torts involving opioids, privacy, cybersecurity, product liability, antitrust, securities, and labor claims.
PFAS Litigation
Scott Summy represents public water systems in PFAS, PCB, MTBE, atrazine, and other contamination litigation.
Mass Torts & Product Liability
Tara D. Sutton tries mass-tort cases involving tobacco, JUUL, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, tribal opioid claims, and disputes over expert evidence and causation.
Wrongful Convictions & Police Shootings
Anand Swaminathan tries civil-rights and whistleblower cases involving wrongful convictions, police shootings, custodial care, free speech, immigration enforcement, and the False Claims Act.
Civil Appeals & Personal Injury
Brody D. Swanson litigates personal-injury, wrongful-death, trust, property, construction, family-business, and appellate disputes.
Medicare · Cybersecurity · False Claims Act
Claire M. Sylvia represents whistleblowers in Medicare, cybersecurity and defense-contract cases and writes a leading treatise on the False Claims Act.
Securities Litigation & Investor-Side Litigation
Joseph J. Tabacco Jr. represents investors in securities, mortgage-backed-securities, and benchmark-rate litigation, including CalPERS and IndyMac matters.
Police Torture & Section 1983 Litigation
G. Flint Taylor has spent more than five decades using records of police violence, concealed evidence, and repeated abuse to establish constitutional violations, hold municipalities accountable, and help secure reparations.
Mesothelioma & Product Liability Trials
Leslie-Anne Taylor represents people in mesothelioma and product-liability litigation and was counsel for the Lovells in their $42.6 million talc verdict against Johnson & Johnson.
Consumer class actions & Mortgage servicing
Beth E. Terrell represents consumers, homeowners, and workers in class actions involving calls, mortgage servicing, credit reporting, and pay practices.
SEC Whistleblower Claims & Retaliation
Jordan A. Thomas helped shape SEC Rule 21F and represents whistleblowers in retaliation, enforcement, and award proceedings.
Health Care Fraud · Whistleblower Litigation
Robert M. Thomas Jr. represents whistleblowers in health care and pharmaceutical False Claims Act cases from his Boston practice.
Securities Fraud Litigation & Investor Class Actions
Steven J. Toll’s investor-side practice connects appellate advocacy, class-certification strategy, mortgage-backed-securities litigation, and the judgment required to mediate cases with public funds and other large investors.
Securities Litigation & Opt-Out Litigation
Stephen W. Tountas approaches securities disputes through the investor’s strategic choice among class, opt-out, direct, and creditor litigation.
Plaintiff-Side Commercial Litigation
Lisa S. Tsai tries commercial cases involving financial fraud, professional liability, fiduciary breaches, cross-border shareholder disputes, and complex business torts.
Survivor Rights & Sports Abuse
Michelle Simpson Tuegel has represented survivors in university abuse claims, the USA Gymnastics bankruptcy, and a hotel-negligence trial that produced a $44 million jury verdict.
Immigrants’ Rights · Family Reunification
Karen Tumlin leads Justice Action Center and litigates immigration and constitutional cases involving family reunification, entry restrictions, and class relief.
Securities Fraud Litigation & Investor Class Actions
Jonathan D. Uslaner represents investors in securities class actions and separate investor claims, with a record spanning Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Cobalt, and Genworth.
Shareholder Litigation & Corporate Governance
Gregory V. Varallo prosecutes shareholder cases in Delaware, with a trial and appellate record spanning Tesla, Mindbody, and the Williams poison-pill challenge.
Securities Litigation & Appeals
Carol C. Villegas leads securities and data-privacy litigation from claim selection and evidence development through appeal, trial, and resolution.
Mass Torts & Toxic Exposure
Aimee H. Wagstaff tries pesticide and medical-product cases and has held national leadership roles in the federal Roundup litigation.
Toxic Exposure & Environmental Nuisance
Mona Lisa Wallace litigates environmental nuisance, toxic-exposure, and mass-tort cases involving contaminated water, industrial agriculture, and harm to homes and communities.
Civil Rights · Constitutional Litigation · Immigrants’ Rights
Cecillia D. Wang is the ACLU’s National Legal Director, overseeing its national legal department, Supreme Court work, and collaboration with affiliates across the country.
Wrongful Convictions & Police Misconduct
Elizabeth Wang tries wrongful-conviction, police-misconduct, and municipal-liability cases in federal courts across the country.
Personal Injury & Wrongful Death
Charles P. Ward litigates Indiana personal-injury and wrongful-death cases involving evidence preservation, insurance coverage, medical liens, and the protection of recoveries.
Civil Rights · Employment · Fair Housing
Christine E. Webber is a Cohen Milstein partner and co-chair of its Civil Rights & Employment practice.
ERISA litigation & Appellate advocacy
Matthew W.H. Wessler handles plaintiff appeals involving retirement plans, arbitration, consumer lending, antitrust, and access to the courts.
Fourth Amendment & Digital privacy
Nathan Freed Wessler’s ACLU practice addresses digital privacy, cell-site location records, biometric technology, and government surveillance.
Catastrophic Injury & Wrongful Death
Alexander R. Wheeler tries and appeals cases involving catastrophic injury, wrongful death, workplace and school safety, defamation, class claims, and judgment enforcement.
Health care fraud & False Claims Act
Marlan B. Wilbanks represents whistleblowers in health care False Claims Act cases, including cases pursued after the government declines to intervene.
Securities fraud class actions & Investor litigation
Shawn A. Williams represents investors in securities litigation, including the Apple case that defeated summary judgment and produced a $490 million court-approved settlement before trial.
Disability rights & Accessible emergency planning
Rebecca S. Williford leads Disability Rights Advocates, with litigation addressing emergency planning, detention, digital access, and equal participation.
Speech · Privacy · Constitutional Litigation
Ben Wizner is an ACLU Deputy Legal Director and Director of its Center for Democracy, with a practice spanning speech, privacy and constitutional litigation.
Supreme Court litigation & Appellate advocacy
Brian Wolfman represents people in public interest appeals and trains Georgetown law students through the Appellate Courts Immersion Clinic.
biometric privacy & consumer privacy
Tina Wolfson handles biometric privacy, digital tracking, platform security, antitrust, and consumer class-action litigation.
ERISA & Employee benefits
Michelle C. Yau represents employees and retirees in pension, 401(k), ESOP, and employee-benefits class actions.
Custodial Medical Care & Excessive Force
Julia Yoo tries and appeals civil-rights cases involving police use of force, custodial medical care, disability access, employment rights, sexual abuse, and constitutional claims.
Childhood Abuse & Organizational Liability
Irwin M. Zalkin represents survivors in appellate, organizational-liability, and coordinated-resolution litigation.
Consumer-Finance & Banking Litigation
Hassan A. Zavareei’s plaintiff-side work spans bank fees, student accounts, small-dollar credit, and consumer-finance appeals.
Supreme Court litigation & Consumer protection
Allison M. Zieve directs Public Citizen Litigation Group and its Supreme Court Assistance Project, with a practice in consumer rights and federal preemption.