Appellate & constitutional lawyers

Brian Wolfman represents people in public interest appeals and trains Georgetown law students through the Appellate Courts Immersion Clinic.

Pamela S. Karlan is a Stanford Law School professor and co-director of its Supreme Court Litigation Clinic. She argued the Bostock and Zarda employment cases.

F. Paul Bland has spent decades keeping consumer cases alive through fights over forced arbitration, removal, mootness, preemption, and class treatment.

Bryan A. Stevenson is founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative. His practice includes juvenile sentencing, capital defense and constitutional litigation.

Robert V. Chisholm argues disabled veterans’ appeals at the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, including Nohr v. McDonald and Wages v. McDonald.

Jared Hausmann litigates asbestos and mesothelioma cases involving discovery, causation disputes, post-trial motions, appeals, and amicus advocacy.

Michael Rubin represents workers and benefits claimants in appellate, class, and public-interest litigation.

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.

Brody D. Swanson litigates personal-injury, wrongful-death, trust, property, construction, family-business, and appellate disputes.

Omar C. Jadwat directs the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project and litigates asylum, entry restrictions, immigration enforcement, and constitutional claims.

Susan Talcott Camp litigates reproductive-rights cases. In Edwards v. Beck, she defended physicians challenging Arkansas’s twelve-week abortion prohibition.

Bhavani K. Raveendran’s civil-rights work includes the Botham Jean verdict, the George Floyd civil action, police-pursuit trials, constitutional appeals, and injunctions.

Alec Karakatsanis leads Civil Rights Corps and litigates constitutional challenges to money bail, fines, fees, and wealth-based pretrial detention.

Leslie A. Brueckner handles appeals involving product safety, consumer class actions, medical warnings, newsgathering rights, environmental remedies, and federal preemption.

Monique Olivier represents workers and classes in employment, wage-and-hour, ERISA, civil-rights, consumer, trial, and appellate litigation.

Trina Realmuto leads the National Immigration Litigation Alliance and litigates immigration, detention, damages and government-transparency cases in federal court.

Deepak Gupta’s appellate practice represents consumers, workers, and civil-rights plaintiffs in Supreme Court cases and the defense of trial judgments.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Matthew W.H. Wessler handles plaintiff appeals involving retirement plans, arbitration, consumer lending, antitrust, and access to the courts.