Civil rights & police misconduct lawyers

Randall Kallinen litigates civil-rights cases in Houston involving federal tort claims, police misconduct, jail safety, compelled speech, public records, trials, and appeals.

Anand Swaminathan tries civil-rights and whistleblower cases involving wrongful convictions, police shootings, custodial care, free speech, immigration enforcement, and the False Claims Act.

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.

Mary L. Bonauto planned marriage equality one court at a time, from Baker v. State and Goodridge to the DOMA challenges and the Obergefell argument, and still guides GLAD Law’s defense of the ground she won.

Alphonse A. Gerhardstein represents people in civil-rights, marriage-equality and police-accountability litigation from Cincinnati.

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.

Mawuli Davis litigates Atlanta civil-rights and criminal cases involving police violence, protest rights, wrongful death, Tasers, no-knock raids, and accountability-court reform.

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.

Lauren I. Freidenberg-McBride litigates civil-rights cases involving custodial death, medical neglect, excessive force, unlawful detention, habeas relief, and systemic reform.

Chicago civil-rights lawyer for James Gibson in his $14.75 million Burge torture settlement and Verona Gunn’s family in a $4.93 million police-crash verdict.

Peter J. Neufeld argued Earl Washington Jr.’s fabricated-confession appeal, tried the case to a verdict, represented Donald Gates and pressed forensic reform.

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

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.

David Rudovsky litigates police-misconduct, wrongful-conviction, stop-and-frisk, and constitutional cases in Philadelphia and nationwide.

Reed Colfax argued Georgia NAACP v. LaGrange, the Eleventh Circuit utility-service ruling, and represented Sapelo Island’s Gullah Geechee residents.

Constance Rice's Los Angeles civil-rights work connects police accountability, public records and community violence prevention.

Alan Mills’s Illinois prisoners’ rights cases: the Tamms supermax appeal and trial, the statewide Davis solitary class, parole and deaf-prisoner settlements.

Abha Khanna leads redistricting trials and appeals at Elias Law Group, including the Caster plaintiffs’ litigation over Alabama’s congressional map.

Elizabeth Wang tries wrongful-conviction, police-misconduct, and municipal-liability cases in federal courts across the country.

Chicago trial lawyer who sued Minneapolis for George Floyd’s family and in 2026 sued the United States and ICE officials for Renee Good’s family.

Christine E. Webber is a Cohen Milstein partner and co-chair of its Civil Rights & Employment practice. Her work includes class litigation challenging discriminatory screening tools.

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

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

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