Civil rights & police misconduct lawyers

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

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.

Michael Kanovitz tried Rogers v. BNSF, the first BIPA class action to reach a jury, and led the Cook County Jail strip-search class case before Judge Kennelly.

Kelly M. Dermody is a Lieff Cabraser partner and Managing Partner of its San Francisco office. Her practice includes civil-rights, employment and pay-equity litigation.

Rupali Sharma litigates abortion access in the units the patient pays, from the Texas record behind Whole Woman’s Health and Mellet v. Ireland to today’s fights for young people’s rights.

Lawrence Greenberg tries criminal-defense, civil-rights, catastrophic-injury, wrongful-death, DUI, and medical-malpractice cases in Maryland.

Daryl D. Parks practices with Parks Law in Tallahassee. He represented Corey Jones’s family during the investigation and separate civil proceedings arising from the fatal police encounter.

Cleveland civil-rights and mass-tort lawyer: a fee ruling over Cuyahoga County’s withheld jail-abuse video; co-lead counsel in the Suboxone MDL.

The question was how Anthropic obtained the books. Geman served as co-lead class counsel for authors in the copyright case that reached a $1.5 billion settlement.

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

Noreen Farrell leads Equal Rights Advocates, pursuing gender equity through Title IX litigation, equal-pay legislation, and workplace civil-rights advocacy.

Deborah K. Marcuse litigates employment discrimination, pay equity, Title IX, class actions, forced arbitration, immigration detention, and civil-rights claims.

Christopher M. Mattei served as lead counsel for the Sandy Hook families against Alex Jones and represents plaintiffs in medical-malpractice and election litigation.

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

Randy Renick represents workers in wage-and-hour, living-wage, employment, and class-action litigation.

Eve Hill advances disability rights, accessible technology, LGBTQ+ equality, voting access, and enforceable civil-rights remedies.

Eve H. Cervantez represents workers and consumers in class actions involving data breaches, pay equity, privacy, wages, and civil rights.

Kelly Iverson co-led the $1.6 billion Philips CPAP settlements and tried Maurice Able’s Eighth Amendment case to a jury verdict in Pittsburgh.

James M. Finberg represents employees in class and collective actions involving equal pay, discrimination, wage-and-hour law, and voting rights.

Robert A. Nersesian represents casino patrons and advantage players in false-imprisonment, property, gaming-law, and constitutional cases nationwide.

Susan L. Burke represented Abu Ghraib detainees against L-3, argued for them before the en banc Fourth Circuit, and sued Blackwater over Nisoor Square.

Marc E. Elias leads high-stakes election litigation across voting access, redistricting, recounts, certification, and constitutional election law.