Civil rights & police misconduct lawyers

Oakland civil-rights lawyer who brought the Riders police-misconduct case and enforced Oakland’s 2003 police-reform agreement in federal court until 2026.

Deuel Ross is Director of Litigation at the Legal Defense Fund, where he co-leads the litigation department and works on voting rights and educational opportunity.

Shannon Price Minter has spent more than thirty years making the small papers of American life, a marriage license, a birth certificate, a service record, apply to LGBTQ+ people equally, from Smith v. Knoller to Talbott.

Tricia Rojo Bushnell leads wrongful-conviction and justice-reform efforts involving exoneration, compensation, records relief, reentry, prosecutor review, and safeguards against future wrongful convictions.

Chicago trial lawyer who won federal jury verdicts for Thaddeus Jimenez, William Amor’s estate, and John Fulton and Anthony Mitchell after wrongful convictions.

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

G. Flint Taylor has spent more than five decades using records of police violence, concealed evidence, and repeated abuse to establish constitutional violations, hold municipalities accountable, and help secure reparations.

Katherine Rosenfeld litigates New York civil-rights and class actions involving police misconduct, disability and language access, prison abuse, pregnancy restraints, employment, and immigrants’ rights.

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

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

Hugh A. Eastwood litigates constitutional-tort and government-misconduct cases in Missouri state and federal trial and appellate courts.

Thomas A. Saenz leads MALDEF’s national civil-rights work across voting, education, employment, immigrant rights, and enforceable remedies.

A police van ran a red light after repeated orders to slow down. DiSilvestro worked on Verona Gunn’s family’s case, which ended in a $4.93 million jury award.

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

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

Luis Carrillo has spent decades trying California civil-rights, police-misconduct, child-abuse, catastrophic-injury, and wrongful-death cases.

Adanté Pointer tries civil-rights and employment cases involving police shootings, wrongful death, video evidence, municipal liability, and discrimination.

Justin T. Bamberg represents victims in civil-rights and wrongful-death cases involving video evidence, disputed official accounts, municipal liability, immunity, settlement funds, and restitution.

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

Mark D. Rosenbaum litigates education equity, immigrants’ rights, voting rights, veterans’ rights, and constitutional public-interest cases.

Anna Benvenutti Hoffmann litigates wrongful-conviction and police-fabrication cases in federal trial and appellate courts nationwide.

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

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

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