Appellate & constitutional lawyers

Michael J. Haddad tries and appeals civil-rights cases involving police shootings, restraint deaths, jail and prison abuse, catastrophic injury, and constitutional claims.

Carol C. Villegas leads securities and data-privacy litigation from claim selection and evidence development through appeal, trial, and resolution.

Ben Wizner is an ACLU Deputy Legal Director and Director of its Center for Democracy, with a practice spanning speech, privacy and constitutional litigation.

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.

Mardirossian brought jurors to a scale model of a dangerous intersection. A hidden roadway sightline became visible, and a $35 million verdict followed.

Government business had moved into school-board members’ personal inboxes. Doherty carried the records requester’s case to a unanimous New Jersey Supreme Court ruling requiring a search.

Dan Stormer represented Burmese villagers against Unocal over forced labor on the Yadana pipeline and litigates civil rights cases from Pasadena.

Karla Gilbride litigates civil-rights and appellate matters involving disability access, workers’ rights, arbitration, federal enforcement, administrative law, and access to courts.

Siddhartha H. Rathod tries civil-rights cases involving police misconduct, wrongful death, failure to intervene, municipal liability, disability rights, and constitutional claims.

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.

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.

Katie Schwartzmann litigates First Amendment, protest-rights, chemical-munitions, jail-conditions, privacy, public-records, immigration-detention, and constitutional cases.

Kai H. Richter litigates pension, 401(k), ESOP, and health-benefit matters at trial and on appeal for employees and plan participants.

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.

Edgar N. Romano represents workers in occupational-disease, asbestos, industrial-exposure, and World Trade Center claims, including administrative and appellate review.

Mohamad Ahmad tries catastrophic-injury, wrongful-death, negligent-security, electrical-injury, and business disputes.

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.

Arash Homampour tries catastrophic-injury and wrongful-death cases involving defective products, public-entity liability, comparative fault, and appellate review.

Emma Gilmore’s securities practice combines cross-border evidence development, appellate doctrine, and close control of the pleading record.

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

Emma Freudenberger tries civil-rights cases involving coerced confessions, fabricated identifications, suppressed DNA, custodial deaths, municipal liability, and relief after exoneration.

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.

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

Ahilan T. Arulanantham has shaped due process in immigration detention through Nadarajah, Franco-Gonzalez, Jennings, TPS litigation, and teaching at UCLA Law.