The Lawyers

Chris J. Panatier tries toxic-exposure cases involving mesothelioma, asbestos, cosmetic talc, expert causation, damages, and appellate preservation.

Rachel Lederman litigates civil-rights cases involving protest policing, mass arrest, youth detention, projectile weapons, class claims, campus bans, and electronic privacy.

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.

Michelle Parfitt co-leads the federal MDL over J&J talc powder, carrying ovarian-cancer causation science through two Rule 702 reviews to a $5.5 billion deal.

Hannah Ross represents investors in securities litigation involving investigation, discovery, trial preparation, and settlement evaluation.

Andrew Stoltmann represents investors in arbitration and securities cases and advocates reforms addressing unpaid FINRA awards and investor recovery.

John W. Houghtaling II represents commercial policyholders in hurricane and property insurance disputes, with a practice built around policy evidence.

Judy Rabinovitz has shaped constitutional limits on immigration detention through Zadvydas, family-separation litigation, asylum advocacy, and decades at the ACLU.

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.

Lisa S. Tsai tries commercial cases involving financial fraud, professional liability, fiduciary breaches, cross-border shareholder disputes, and complex business torts.

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.

Rachel Abrams co-leads the federal sexual-assault cases against Uber and Lyft; her client Jaylynn Dean’s case brought the first bellwether verdict against Uber.

Beth G. Baldinger represents people harmed by police misconduct, failures to protect, catastrophic injury, and abuse in foster care.

Christa J. Groshek defends criminal and juvenile cases involving forensic interviews, source-code evidence, suppression, statutory interpretation, and proof beyond a reasonable doubt.

Lori E. Andrus represents workers and consumers in equal-pay, employment class-action, complex plaintiff, pharmaceutical, and mass-tort litigation.

Sarah Grady tries and appeals Chicago civil-rights cases involving jail and prison deaths, sexual assault, excessive force, and denied medical care.

Joseph W. Cotchett represents investors in financial litigation and has more than six decades of trial experience.

Christopher V. Tisi opened for the Casaretto family in a $20 million talc verdict against J&J and tried and argued Decker v. GE Healthcare over Omniscan.

John P. Relman represents plaintiffs in housing-access, reverse-redlining, discriminatory-lending, land-use, and criminal-record-screening cases.

Allison M. Zieve directs Public Citizen Litigation Group and its Supreme Court Assistance Project, with a practice in consumer rights and federal preemption.

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.

Tina Wolfson handles biometric privacy, digital tracking, platform security, antitrust, and consumer class-action litigation.

Annie McAdams has pursued survivor-side trafficking claims against online platforms, hotels, and other businesses under Texas Chapter 98.