Public Interest

We represent plaintiffs and petitioners in discrimination and harassment matters, and in administrative challenges to government action. We litigate voting rights, disability rights, and first amendment rights cases, as well as habeas, immigration, and police and prosecutorial misconduct matters. We also work with advocacy organizations, academics, non-profits, and social-impact start-ups seeking to change city, state, or federal policies for the public good.

Representative Matters

Discrimination & Voting Rights
  • Represented multiple individual plaintiffs in employment discrimination matters against both private and government employers.
  • Represented American Diabetes Association, AARP, and multiple veterans’ organizations as amici in voting rights litigation in the Eleventh Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court.
  • Represented state legislators regarding voting rights issues in amicus brief before the U.S. Supreme Court.
  • Represented state political party challenging gerrymandered redistribution of executive power.
Criminal Justice
  • Represented criminal defendant in post-conviction appeals and habeas proceedings.
  • Represented criminal defendant in dispute over statutory and constitutional public rights of access in state court criminal proceedings. 
  • Represented drug policy non-profit in multiple amicus briefs regarding sentencing policy before the U.S. Supreme Court.  
  • Represented habeas petitioner in Petition for Writ of Certiorari challenging “crime of violence” predicates and application of procedural default doctrine.
  • Represented multiple criminal defendants in challenges to illegitimate police searches and seizures.
Policy Reform
  • Represented New Jersey LGBTQ+ non-profit as external general counsel.
  • Represented environmental organization in federal agency advocacy campaign.
  • Represented private international law scholars as amici in Supreme Court litigation regarding the extraterritorial application of RICO.
  • Represented multiple individuals appealing denials of applications for asylum, withholding of removal, and humanitarian assistance.  
  • Represented technology start-up advocacy organization as amici in litigation challenging constitutionality of certain New York City regulations in the Southern District of New York.