The Lawyers

Brittany Henderson represents trafficking survivors in civil trials, confidential compensation programs, and litigation against financial organizations.

Sophia Lin Lakin leads the ACLU Voting Rights Project’s national work across redistricting, ballot access, election administration, and voting-rights litigation.

Hassan A. Zavareei’s plaintiff-side work spans bank fees, student accounts, small-dollar credit, and consumer-finance appeals.

Edward A. Wallace is Plaintiffs’ Liaison Counsel in the federal hair-relaxer cancer MDL before Judge Rowland, where the first bellwether trial is set for 2027.

Neil Gehlawat tries cases involving police shootings, restraint deaths, sexual assault, wrongful death, and abuse or safety failures in schools and care settings.

Jim Butler tries auto-defect cases for Georgia families, including Brogdon v. Ford, the Super Duty roof case that drew a $2.5 billion punitive verdict.

Felicia M. Medina represents workers in employment discrimination, equal-pay, retaliation, wage-and-hour, and class-action litigation.

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.

Mark C. Molumphy represents investors in securities and governance matters involving discovery, trial preparation, and negotiated resolutions.

Atlanta trucking lawyer Joseph A. Fried questioned the owner of Amazon’s delivery partner and closed in Bradfield v. Amazon Logistics, a $16.2 million verdict.

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.

Julie G. Reiser represents institutional investors in securities and derivative cases, including the Countrywide mortgage-backed-securities settlement and Alphabet workplace-governance 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.

Gary M. Klinger litigates data-breach and consumer-privacy class actions, including the TCPA class certified against All Web Leads in Chicago federal court.

Jay Edelson litigated claims over Facebook’s use of biometric data, placing product design and consent at the center of Illinois privacy law.

Thomas M. Sobol originated the purchasers’ fraud-on-the-FDA antitrust case against Ranbaxy, settled for $485 million two weeks before trial.

Amber R. Long tries and appeals cases involving asbestos, toxic exposure, and abuse in residential treatment facilities.

William M. Shernoff pioneered insurance bad-faith litigation for policyholders and has handled catastrophe, disability, health, and property-insurance claims.

Michael Sacchet argued against 3M’s government-contractor defense and tried earplug bellwethers that ended in $110 million and $77.5 million verdicts.

Atlanta trial lawyer L. Chris Stewart: the Gregory Towns Taser-death suit against East Point and the Walter Scott family’s $6.5 million settlement.

Cyrus Mehri is a founding partner of Mehri & Skalet and co-founder of Working IDEAL. His civil-rights practice addresses workplace systems and enforceable reform.

Nathan Freed Wessler’s ACLU practice addresses digital privacy, cell-site location records, biometric technology, and government surveillance.

Christina Cossich, on the AFFF MDL 2873 plaintiffs’ executive committee since 2019, represents water systems such as Bridgeport, Ohio, in PFAS settlements.