Private Public Interest Law and Plaintiffs’ Firm Guide

What are PPILFs and Plaintiffs’ Firms?

Private public interest law firms (PPILFs) are involved in many of the same issues addressed by nonprofit public interest legal organizations and government agencies, but in a law firm setting. There is no official test for what establishes a firm as a private public interest law firm. It is a somewhat elastic term used to describe private, for-profit firms that dedicate at least a significant portion of their caseload to matters that have broad social, political, or economic impact. While most are small, firms that fall under this broad definition come in a great variety of sizes (everything from a solo practitioner to a multi-city, 100+ lawyer operation) and work in an even greater range of subject areas (everything from criminal defense to international human rights). 

A second, often overlapping category of private firms―plaintiffs’ firms—represent individuals and groups seeking to redress harm through litigation. Common issue areas addressed by plaintiffs’ firms include antitrust, consumer, employment, personal injury, and product liability. There is also no clear-cut dividing line between a PPILF and a plaintiffs’ firm. Many plaintiffs’ firms focus on the social impact of their work and practice in areas typically considered to be in the public interest sphere, while others do not, or do not exclusively. To a certain extent, the public interest nature of a case or a firm may also lie in the eye of the beholder. As one veteran public interest lawyer put it, the determination as to what is really public interest work is “very subjective…almost everyone thinks they work for a public interest firm.”

The mission of this guide is not to resolve the debate but to make law students and attorneys engaged in a job search aware of the subjectivity of the public interest label when it comes to private firms. Whether or not a firm should be considered a PPILF, a plaintiffs’ firm with no clear public interest dimension, or something in between, is a determination that can be made only after examining the details of a given firm’s practice. And even then, it may be open to reasonable disagreement. What is most important in considering a particular firm is to examine what kinds of cases the firm handles and whom they represent, and whether these cases and clients fit your own goals and values.

Firm Structures

Like nonprofit public interest organizations, PPILFs usually have a particular social, political, or economic vision that includes helping underrepresented groups and/or promoting change. These firms pursue cases that advance their vision. For example, a PPILF may represent employees suing their employers for unlawful discrimination or consumers charging a financial institution with deceptive practices. 

However, unlike nonprofits, PPILFs operate as for-profit businesses. These firms rely on the fees generated by their cases, rather than foundation grants or tax dollars, to pay for overhead and staff salaries. Thus, a PPILF may look not only at the merits of a case, but also its potential profitability, when deciding whether or not to take it on. Firms have different means for ensuring their financial solvency. Some split their practice so that profit-driven client work can subsidize the public interest docket. At most such firms, associates will usually be required to work on both kinds of matters. Other firms choose to only represent clients that will further their public interest agenda but simply more strictly scrutinize the financial implications of each case. 

Frequently, PPILFs are paid on a contingency basis. In contingency cases, the firm does not charge the client a fee unless they win the case. If the case is won, the firm takes a percentage of the settlement or court award. If the case is lost, the client pays nothing. Plaintiffs’ firms work on contingency in the great majority of their cases.

PPILFs must necessarily choose the contingency cases they take on carefully—by first investigating the facts, judging the likelihood of success, and estimating the expense of litigating the case—before agreeing to represent a client. One lawyer described the process by saying that her firm “has to be pretty selective about what cases we will take on. We think about what resources we will need for a case and what time and resources we will be giving up on other cases by taking a particular case on.” Having made a careful decision about a case at the outset, however, the firm sticks with a case no matter what: “If it’s worth pursuing, it’s worth pursuing to the end.” Another attorney explained that his firm pursues only 10-20% of the cases that potential clients bring in. The firm goes forward only with those cases that both have a good chance of being successful and where the firm believes there is some social benefit to be achieved through the case.

In non-contingency cases—including immigration, family law, and landlord/tenant disputes—firms may charge an hourly fee or a flat rate. Because PPILFs already integrate public interest goals into their primary practice, they may do little or no pro bono work. They may, however, be able to charge rates that are much lower than those charged by large private law firms because their smaller size keeps their overhead costs down. Some firms charge on a sliding scale based on the client’s income.

The for-profit nature of PPILFs creates distinct advantages and disadvantages compared to public interest settings such as government and nonprofits. A major advantage is the potential for considerably higher salaries for the attorneys. However, with that potential comes the responsibility for looking at the economics of every case. Many firms will not represent a client who cannot pay if there is no potential to at least recoup the cost of the litigation. One lawyer admits that some of his more “heartbreaking moments” have been turning away people who have been wronged because the case had little financial merit. Lawyers also admit that there can be pressure to settle a case, even if the client wants to litigate, when the cost of litigation will be higher than the expected award.

Another drawback for some lawyers is the discomfort of having to bill low-income clients at all. One practitioner who thoroughly enjoys her criminal defense and immigration practice reported that she earned considerably more than she would as a state public defender. Nevertheless, she lamented that she “hates collecting the money,” as even her reduced fees represented “a huge amount” from her client’s perspective. This practitioner wished she “didn’t have to think about the monetary aspect of her cases.” Another lawyer explained, “You have to have an entrepreneurial spirit to work in private practice….You have to make it happen.” 

You can read more about PPILFs—their history, various theories of public service, and their role in the legal profession—in the paper Between Profit and Principle: The Private Public Interest Law Firm, by Scott L. Cummings (UCLA School of Law) and Ann Southworth (UC Irvine School of Law). 

Issue Areas

PPILFs and plaintiffs’ firms practice across a wide variety of issue areas. Some firms specialize in just one or two issue areas while others operate a more general practice. Issue areas include: 

• Antitrust 
• Bankruptcy 
• Civil rights and prisoners’ rights 
• Consumer, mass torts, medical malpractice, personal injury, and product liability issues 
• Criminal defense  
• Disability 
• Economic development 
• Education 
• Elections 
• Employment (including wage and hour cases, employment discrimination, and occupational health and safety) 
• Energy, environment, land use, and real estate issues 
• Estate planning 
• Family 
• Governance (including nonprofit formation, tax, and compliance issues) 
• Housing (including affordable housing development and landlord/tenant issues) 
• Immigration  
• Intellectual property 
• International law and international human rights 
• Labor / union representation 
• Municipal (including representation and assistance to state and local governments)  
• Privacy 
• Securities 
• Tribal  
• Whistleblower 

Work Types

Clients range from individuals with specific disputes, to small groups of plaintiffs with similar complaints, to large “classes” of similarly situated plaintiffs. In a class action lawsuit, a number of similarly situated people who have been injured but often do not have the resources to sue the responsible party individually band together in a single case. Some firms represent primarily individual clients while others may do almost exclusively class actions.

PPILFs are often, although not exclusively, “plaintiff-side”; that is, they represent the party bringing suit, usually against a corporate or other institutional defendant.

Keep in mind that PPILF work is not confined to litigation, whether at the trial or appellate level. Depending on the firm’s focus, work may range from advocacy before administrative bodies, to transactional work covering estate planning or economic development issues, to legal advice and counsel for unions, and much more.

Examples of cases handled by PPILFs reveal the tremendous range of issues such firms work on:

• An action on behalf of an employee injured by exposure to toxic chemicals 
• Defense of a Mexican immigrant faced with deportation 
• A suit on behalf of public employees to ensure the right to discuss union issues at work 
• A sex discrimination suit on behalf of women brokers against a major Wall Street firm 
• A suit on behalf of agricultural workers against strawberry growers for using a potentially harmful pesticide without adequate warnings 
• A case on behalf of Black families denied housing at an apartment complex which used a system of racially coded applications 
• A suit challenging a police department’s routine use of dogs trained to bite their targets 
• Negotiation of a new lease for an artist in danger of losing his studio 
• An action on behalf of hundreds of tenants against a landlord for maintaining an apartment building in slum conditions over many years 

“I appreciate the ability to decide what cases I want to bring. I have a dream job because I can focus on the cases that I am interested in.” 

—PPILF Lawyer 

Work Environment

Lawyers are drawn to PPILFs by a passion for the issues their firms address and the clients they serve. PPILF lawyers often cite the shared commitment of their colleagues as a major advantage of their practices. One attorney summed up his experience: “You get to work with a group of people who are colorful, people you would really enjoy hanging out with. You get to work on amazing cases, and then you go home knowing you have helped someone.”

In general, PPILFs are much smaller than corporate firms. Smaller PPILFs are comprised of fewer than 10 attorneys, with larger firms having as many as 35 or more lawyers. Some firms are even bigger. Many plaintiffs’ firms, such as those pursuing major tort or financial cases, tend to be bigger than those that do more traditional public interest work.

The relatively close work environment offered by most PPILFs creates the potential for strong working relationships and real collegiality. However, the potential for a mismatch or even clash of styles is also heightened. In an office with only a few attorneys, the personality mix can be critical. In researching and interviewing with a PPILF, pay close attention to the feel of the office—how the attorneys interact, whether one or two strong personalities set the tone for the office, etc.—to determine whether or not it is a good fit for you.

Because they are generally smaller than other private firms and put fewer attorneys on each case, PPILFs and plaintiffs’ firms tend to give junior attorneys a greater share of responsibility. As one partner described her firm: “New associates get plenty of responsibility—as much as they can handle.” A lawyer at a larger PPILF described the level of responsibility for associates there as follows: “In their first year, associates will be doing the same work they would in their fifth year at a big firm.” Another benefit to the lean staffing of cases is that attorneys at all levels of experience tend to see more court time in PPILFs and plaintiffs’ firms.

The number of hours lawyers work varies considerably from firm to firm. Most PPILF and plaintiffs’ lawyers report, however, that their hours are more reasonable than those of their corporate firm counterparts. On average, lawyers work 50 to 60 hours a week, with longer hours when on trial. As one lawyer put it, “It’s not a crazed existence.” Another explained that a major benefit to her practice was her ability to keep her life in balance, saving enough time for her family and for outside interests. Additionally, a different lawyer observed that while the pay was higher at her PPILF than at the nonprofit where she had worked previously, the hours were longer. 

Salaries and Compensation

Many PPILFs and plaintiffs’ firms offer the possibility of higher salaries than those earned by nonprofit or government lawyers. There is quite a bit of variation in salaries among public interest firms depending on their size and the nature of cases they handle. At some PPILFs, associates receive salaries comparable to attorneys in legal services or state government offices; however, by contrast with those other settings, some PPILF attorneys also have the potential to receive a bonus in a profitable year. Plaintiffs’ firms offer an even wider variation in salary because there is the potential in firms that handle high-dollar cases for salaries that are as high as some large corporate law firms. Visit OPIA’s Public Interest Compensation Information page for more information.

Landing a Position

Securing a position at a PPILF or plaintiffs’ firm can be much more challenging than the process for large corporate firms, primarily due to the smaller size of the firms. PPILFs and plaintiffs’ firms tend to hire summer associates and entry-level attorneys more sporadically and in much smaller numbers than corporate firms. Although some firms hire students directly upon graduation or after a clerkship, the great majority hire attorneys with a few years of practice experience. However, even these firms may have summer positions for law students or may be willing to consider a recent graduate with exceptional experience. In addition, some PPILFs offer term-limited fellowship positions for new lawyers, usually 1-3 years in duration. Some PPILFs and plaintiffs’ firms participate in HLS recruiting programs for summer and/or entry-level positions, such as the Virtual Public Interest Interview Program (V-PIIP) and Spring Interview Program through OPIA, and the Early Interview Program (EIP) through OCS. 

Many PPILFs and plaintiffs’ firms are interested in hiring summer interns, but some are unable to do so until they can gauge how much work they will have for the following summer. There is no uniform summer hiring timeline, and the process can range from late summer the year before the internship, until the spring before starting the internship.

Due to their limited size, most firms simply wait until they have an opening rather than recruiting a regular class of entry-level attorneys. For lateral hiring, PPILFs and plaintiffs’ firms draw from a variety of practice settings. Experienced attorneys may come to public interest firms from district attorney’s or attorney general offices, other government agencies, public defenders’ offices, large corporate firms, legal services offices, or nonprofits.

For both lateral hiring and summer positions, it is important to sufficiently research prospective firms to determine their issue areas and consider whether the firm’s mission aligns with your interests. A firm’s docket and expertise may shift overtime or a firm may develop a niche practice area that predominates, while still advertising casework in a wider array of issue areas.

What Firms Look For

PPILFs and plaintiffs’ firms look for a strong academic background and solid research and writing skills. However, unlike corporate law firms, these firms also tend to look for experience in and commitment to the issue areas of the firm’s practice. Public interest experience — in the form of clinical work, summer internships, and/or term-time activities — is critical. Likewise, because of the significant responsibility junior attorneys are given in PPILFs and plaintiffs’ firms, these firms seek candidates who are self-starting and quick to learn. One lawyer described her firm’s hiring strategy in this way: “We want energetic, hungry people with good writing, critical thinking, and entrepreneurial skills; people with a passion for and experience in public interest work.” Another said, “We want to hire people who can take initiative and be proactive.”

Likewise, due to the typically smaller nature of many firms, public interest lawyers stress the importance of judging how well an applicant will fit at the given firm. They are particularly interested in team players and people who can work closely with clients. Because every firm is unique in its specific goals and vision, be sure to use your cover letter to demonstrate that you are familiar with, and that you align with, the firm’s mission and values.

Advice from PPILF Lawyers

We asked a number of PPILF lawyers for their advice to students interested in career opportunities at these types of firms. Here’s what they had to say: 

• “When investigating a firm, look at what kind of cases they do, for whom you will be working, what kind of structure the firm has, and what kinds of things they let new people do. Your investigation should be content-driven; you should seek to find out what they actually do at the firm.” 
• “To find a job in a public interest firm or any other area of the law, you have to NETWORK! Rely on alumni from your law school and keep in touch with people you work with during the summer. You really need to keep in touch with people you have worked with to stay well connected.” 
• “When considering a firm, have very frank conversations with the firms’ associates and hear from them about the kind of work that you would be expected to do.” 
• “It is important to understand the practice of the firm that you are looking to join and the kind of cases they are involved in, especially since in most public interest firms, there is some portion of the caseload that does not involve public interest work. Be clear about the kind of responsibilities you will be asked to take on and make sure that is the kind of work you enjoy and care about doing.” 
• “Many public interest firms are very issue-specific. So a student who wants to work at a firm should be sure they want to devote [their] time to the area in which that firm focuses. Ask, too, whether there are other types of cases you will be asked to handle just to bring money into the firm (like real estate closings or divorce cases) and make sure you are OK with that.” 
• “You should ask yourself before joining the firm if working there would be a learning experience. Will you be working with people who have good skills and a strong commitment? Will you be given opportunities to engage in all aspects of the cases that the firm handles?” 
• “Think of the lifestyle and the kind of environment you will be walking into. My firm is much smaller than a corporate firm and hence has a more personal atmosphere. We don’t have to wear suits, for example, and it’s a comfort level that I like. Also, try to make sure you will like working with the people in the firm. In a small firm, people’s individual personalities really come out.” 
• “When students get into a summer program at a firm, they shouldn’t just work on the ‘cherry’ cases or on a reduced schedule. They should try to work as hard as the lawyers, and put in as many hours as they do to get a realistic picture of what it’s really like.” 
• “Ask yourself, do you love the subject matter? Do you love the clients? Ideally, you should answer yes to both, but you’re in big trouble if you go into something in which you like neither.” 
• “Look for honesty and integrity in the firm’s lawyers, and a commitment to their clients’ objectives. That is what, for me, makes a public interest law firm good.” 
• “Gather intelligence about the firm’s culture and make sure that it’s a good fit, both for you and for the firm.” 

Conclusion

Many PPILF and plaintiffs’ lawyers say that they love what they do because they care about the cases they work on and that they work with people who are interesting and committed. One attorney said about his firm, “If you spend a day here, you’ll know why it’s so great. People are having fun. They find themselves and the work that they do worthwhile. It’s a very positive atmosphere.” PPILF lawyers often share that they reap the personal fulfillment of working on issues they believe in, while enjoying the financial rewards of private practice. As another attorney described his practice, “It combines the best of both worlds. You get the opportunity to push your ideals in full action, but you don’t have to live with financial constraints.” 

Of course, no practice setting is perfect. Because PPILFs do operate as for-profit businesses, their lawyers may feel frustrated by the financial realities that affect which cases they can accept. Attorneys in some firms complain of pressure to take on those cases that will generate the highest fees rather than cases that are most deserving or most in keeping with their interests. But for PPILF lawyers, the emotional, intellectual, and financial rewards of their practices more than outweigh any disadvantages. Their positive descriptions of the work they do every day speak for themselves: 

• “There are so many people from my law school class who are unhappy with what they do. I like what I do.” 
• “I appreciate the ability to decide what cases I want to bring. I have a dream job because I can focus on the cases that I am interested in.” 
• “Our cases are a million times more interesting [than commercial cases], attorneys get more responsibility, and we’re on the right side!” 
• “The most rewarding aspect of my job is that I can go to my desk and pull out at least 30 cases where I feel that I have really had an impact on something. I like that I am able to take cases that attack inequities in society that won’t be challenged otherwise. I like affecting lives in a way that matters.” 
• “I enjoy coming to work every day.” 

Disclaimer

By including a firm in this guide, OPIA does not vouch for its commitment to social justice. We advise students contemplating working for a PPILF or plaintiffs’ firm to investigate the firm further, to ensure mission alignment and fit.

Harvard Law School students should note that a firm’s inclusion in this guide does not automatically mean that work for that firm qualifies for the law school’s Summer Public Interest Funding (SPIF). A firm must meet the standards set forth on the Student Financial Services website and should be approved in advance by the SPIF staff. 

PPILF & Plaintiffs’ Firm Directory

ABRAHAMSON, RDZANEK & WILKINS, LLC
Location/s: Illinois 
Issue Areas: Employment, whistleblower 
Work Types: Alternative dispute resolution, litigation 

ABRAMSON SMITH WALDSMITH LLP
Location/s: California 
Issue Areas: Consumer, personal injury, product liability 
Work Types: Litigation 

DIANA ADAMS LAW & MEDIATION, PLLC
Location/s: New York 
Issue Areas: Family, LGBTQ+ 
Work Types: Mixed 

ADAMS, BROADWELL, JOSEPH & CARDOZO, PC
Location/s: California 
Issue Areas: Energy, environment, labor, land use  
Work Types: Administrative advocacy, litigation 

ADKINS, KELSTON & ZAVEZ, PC
Location/s: Massachusetts 
Issue Areas: Consumer, environment, privacy 
Work Types: Class action, litigation 

ADLER & COLVIN
Location/s: California 
Issue Areas: Governance, tax 
Work Types: Administrative advocacy, transactional 

AHDOOT WOLFSON
Location/s: California 
Issue Areas: Antitrust, consumer, employment, personal injury, privacy, securities, whistleblower 
Work Types: Class action, litigation

THE LAW OFFICE OF ROBERT D. AHLGREN & ASSOCIATES
Location/s: Illinois  
Issue Areas: Immigration 
Work Types: Mixed 

ALDEN LAW GROUP, PLLC
Location/s: District of Columbia 
Issue Areas: Employment, labor, whistleblower 
Work Types: Litigation 

ALEXANDER LAW GROUP LLP
Location/s: California  
Issue Areas: Personal injury, product liability 
Work Types: Litigation 

LAW OFFICES OF PETER ALFERT
Location/s: California 
Issue Areas: Personal injury, product liability 
Work Types: Litigation 

ALI & LOCKWOOD LLP
Location/s: District of Columbia 
Issue Areas: Civil rights, commercial 
Work Types: Appellate, litigation 
Hiring: Fellowship

ALIOTO LAW OFFICES
Location/s: California 
Issue Areas: Employment, personal injury, whistleblower 
Work Types: Alternative dispute resolution, litigation 

ALLISON, SLUTSKY & KENNEDY, PC
Location/s: Illinois  
Issue Areas: Employment, labor  
Work Types: Alternative dispute resolution, class action, litigation 

ALTERMAN & BOOP, LLP
Location/s: New York
Issue Areas: Civil rights, employment, environment, family, housing 
Work Types: Litigation 

ALTSHULER BERZON, LLP
Location/s: California
Issue Areas: Constitutional, employment, environment, labor  
Work Types: Administrative advocacy, appellate, class action, litigation 

ANDRUS ANDERSON LLP
Location/s: California
Issue Areas: Antitrust, consumer, employment, medical malpractice, personal injury
Work Types: Class action, litigation

ANGEL LAW
Location/s: California 
Issue Areas: Environment, land use 
Work Types: Administrative advocacy, litigation 

ANTONE, CASAGRANDE & ADWERS, PC
Location/s: Michigan  
Issue Areas: Immigration  
Work Types: Mixed   

APPLEGATE & THORNE-THOMSEN, PC
Location/s: Illinois  
Issue Areas: Economic development, governance, housing, real estate, tax 
Work Types: Transactional 

APOLLO LAW LLC 
Location/s: Minnesota
Issue Area/s: Consumer, employment  
Work Types: Appellate 

ARGUEDAS, CASSMAN, HEADLEY & GOLDMAN LLP
Location/s: California
Issue Areas: Criminal defense
Work Types: Appellate, litigation 

ARNOLD & KADJAN, LLP
Location/s: Illinois
Issue Areas: Employment, labor, personal injury  
Work Types: Administrative advocacy, alternative dispute resolution, litigation 

ARNS LAW FIRM
Location/s: California, Nevada
Issue Areas: Civil rights, consumer, employment, personal injury 
Work Types: Class action, litigation 

AUDET & PARTNERS, LLP 
Location/s: California
Issue Areas: Antitrust, consumer, employment, mass torts, personal injury, whistleblower 
Work Types: Class action, litigation 

AZADIAN LAW GROUP, PC
Location/s: California
Issue Areas: Consumer, employment, whistleblower  
Work Types: Alternative dispute resolution, class action, litigation 

FRANKLIN D. AZAR & ASSOCIATES, PC 
Location/s: Colorado 
Issue Areas: Employment, personal injury, product liability
Work Types: Class action, litigation

BAKER, KEENER & NAHRA, LLP
Location/s: California 
Issue Areas: Commercial, employment, medical malpractice, personal injury 
Work Types: Alternative dispute resolution, appellate, litigation 

BALAMUTH LAW
Location/s: California 
Issue Areas: Estate planning 
Work Types: Transactional 

BANTLE & LEVY LLP
Location/s: New York
Issue Areas: Civil rights, employment 
Work Types: Litigation 

BARON & BUDD, PC
Location/s: California, District of Columbia, Louisiana, New York, Texas
Issue Areas: Consumer, environment, mass torts, product liability, whistleblower 
Work Types: Class action, litigation, appellate 

BARRETT & FARAHANY, LLP
Location/s: Georgia, Illinois 
Issue Areas: Civil rights, employment, whistleblower 
Work Types: Alternative dispute resolution, litigation 

BARRETT JOHNSTON MARTIN & GARRISON, LLC
Location/s: Tennessee 
Issue Areas: Civil rights, criminal defense, employment, labor, securities, whistleblower  
Work Types: Class action, litigation

BCK LAW, P.C.
Location/s: Idaho, Massachusetts, Vermont  
Issue Areas: Corporate, employment, energy, environment, governance, land use
Work Types: Alternative dispute resolution, transactional 

BEASLEY ALLEN LAW FIRM 
Location/s: Alabama, Georgia, Texas
Issue Areas: Commercial, consumer, employment, mass torts, product liability, personal injury, whistleblower  
Work Types: Class action, litigation 

BEESON, TAYER & BODINE
Location/s: California 
Issue Areas: Bankruptcy, education, employment, labor
Work Types: Class action, litigation 

BELDOCK LEVINE & HOFFMAN LLP
Location/s: New York
Issue Areas: Civil rights, corporate, commercial, criminal defense, employment, estate planning, family, governance, intellectual property, international human rights, real estate 
Work Types: Class action, litigation, transactional 

BENACH COLLOPY, LLP
Location/s: District of Columbia 
Issue Areas: Immigration 
Work Types: Mixed

LAW OFFICE OF ARTHUR A. BENSON II
Location/s: Missouri 
Issue Areas: Civil rights, constitutional, employment 
Work Types: Appellate, class action, litigation 

BERGER MONTAGUE, PC
Location/s: California, District of Columbia, Illinois, Minnesota, Pennsylvania 
Issue Areas: Antitrust, commercial, consumer, employment, environment, intellectual property, product liability, securities, whistleblower  
Work Types: Class action, litigation  

BERKMAN, GORDON, MURRAY & DEVAN
Location/s: Ohio 
Issue Areas: Civil rights, commercial, constitutional, criminal defense, employment, personal injury  
Work Types: Alternative dispute resolution, appellate, litigation  

BERMAN TABACCO
Location/s: California, Massachusetts  
Issue Areas: Antitrust, consumer, employment, securities, whistleblower
Work Types: Class action, litigation 

BERNABEI & KABAT, PLLC
Location/s: District of Columbia 
Issue Areas: Civil rights, employment, whistleblower
Work Types: Litigation
Hiring: Fellowship  

BERNEY & SANG
Location/s: Pennsylvania  
Issue Areas: Civil rights, education, employment 
Work Types: Mixed 

BERNSTEIN, LITOWITZ, BERGER & GROSSMANN, LLP
Location/s: California, Delaware, Illinois, Louisiana, New York 
Issue Areas: Governance, securities 
Work Types: Class action, litigation 

BLEICHMAR FONTI & AULD LLP
Location/s: California, New York  
Issue Areas: Antitrust, consumer, corporate, securities 
Work Types: Class action, litigation 

BLOCH & WHITE LLP
Location/s: New York
Issue Areas: Civil rights, commercial, criminal defense
Work Types: Appellate, litigation

BLOCK & LEVITON LLP
Location/s: California, Delaware, Massachusetts  
Issue Areas: Antitrust, consumer, corporate, securities, whistleblower 
Work Types: Class action, litigation, transactional 

BLUE OCEAN LAW
Location/s: Guam 
Issue Areas: Civil rights, environment  
Work Types: Mixed 

BOSTON LAW COLLABORATIVE, LLC
Location/s: Massachusetts
Issue Areas: Civil rights, commercial, corporate, education, employment, family, intellectual property, personal injury, real estate, securities 
Work Types: Alternative dispute resolution, litigation, transactional  

BOXER & GERSON LLP
Location/s: California
Issue Areas: Employment, personal injury  
Work Types: Mixed 

BRAMSON, PLUTZIK, MAHLER & BIRKHAEUSER LLP
Location/s: California
Issue Areas: Antitrust, commercial, consumer, securities 
Work Types: Appellate, class action, litigation  

BRANCART & BRANCART
Location/s: California
Issue Areas: Civil rights, housing  
Work Types: Litigation 

BRANDI LAW FIRM
Location/s: California
Issue Areas: Consumer, employment, personal injury, product liability  
Work Types: Class action, litigation 

BREDHOFF & KAISER, PLLC
Location/s: District of Columbia 
Issue Areas: Antitrust, bankruptcy, constitutional, criminal defense, employment,  governance, labor  
Work Types: Appellate, class action, litigation 

BRICKLIN & NEWMAN, LLP
Location/s: Washington  
Issue Areas: Energy, environment, land use 
Work Types: Administrative advocacy, litigation 

BRODIE & BRODIE
Location/s: Massachusetts  
Issue Areas: Personal injury  
Work Types: Litigation 

BROWN GOLDSTEIN & LEVY, LLP
Location/s: Maryland, District of Columbia 
Issue Areas: Civil rights, criminal defense, employment, family, housing, personal injury 
Work Types: Appellate, class action, litigation 

BUCHER LAW PLLC
Location/s: New York
Issue Areas: Antitrust, consumer
Work Types: Alternative dispute resolution, litigation 

BURNS CHAREST
Location/s: District of Columbia, Louisiana, Texas 
Issue Areas: Antitrust, commercial, consumer, energy, environment, intellectual property, mass torts 
Work Types: Class action, litigation 

BUSH GOTTLIEB
Location/s: California 
Issue Areas: Employment, intellectual property, labor 
Work Types: Administrative advocacy, litigation 

LAW OFFICE OF RODERICK P. BUSHNELL
Location/s: California 
Issue Areas: Employment, labor 
Work Types: Alternative dispute resolution, litigation  

BUTLER PRATHER, LLP
Location/s: Georgia 
Issue Areas: Personal injury, product liability, whistleblower 
Work Types: Class action, litigation 

CADDELL & CHAPMAN 
Location/s: Texas  
Issue Areas: Commercial, consumer, whistleblower 
Work Types: Class action, litigation 

CAFFARELLI & ASSOCIATES, LTD 
Location/s: Illinois  
Issue Areas: Consumer, employment 
Work Types: Alternative dispute resolution, appellate, class action, litigation 

LEONARD CARDER, LLP
Location/s: California
Issue Areas: Employment, labor 
Work Types: Class action, litigation 

CARLINER & REMES, PC
Location/s: District of Columbia 
Issue Areas: Immigration 
Work Types: Mixed 

CARNEY & APPLEBY
Location/s: Iowa 
Issue Areas: Corporate, estate planning, family, medical malpractice, personal injury, real estate 
Work Types: Administrative advocacy, litigation, transactional 

CARNEY, GAUDET & CARNEY
Location/s: Massachusetts  
Issue Areas: Criminal defense 
Work Types: Appellate, litigation 

LAW OFFICES OF CARPENTER & MAYFIELD
Location/s: California
Issue Areas: Criminal defense, family 
Work Types: Mixed 

CARSTENS, BLACK & MINTER LLP
Location/s: California
Issue Areas: Environment, land use  
Work Types: Administrative advocacy, litigation 

THE CARTWRIGHT LAW FIRM, INC.
Location/s: California
Issue Areas: Employment, personal injury, product liability 
Work Types: Litigation 

CARY KANE PLLC
Location/s: New York  
Issue Areas: Employment, labor 
Work Types: Alternative dispute resolution, class action, litigation 

CASCADIA LAW GROUP
Location/s: Washington  
Issue Areas: Energy, environment, land use
Work Types: Administrative advocacy, litigation 

CASPER & DE TOLEDO, LLC
Location/s: Connecticut
Issue Areas: Employment, medical malpractice, personal injury 
Work Types: Litigation 

CASPER, MEADOWS, SCHWARTZ & COOK
Location/s: California
Issue Areas: Civil rights, personal injury, product liability  
Work Types: Class action, litigation 

CHAITMAN LLP
Location/s: New York  
Issue Areas: Bankruptcy, commercial, estate planning 
Work Types: Litigation 

CHISHOLM CHISHOLM & KILPATRICK LTD
Location/s: Rhode Island   
Issue Areas: Disability, employment, veterans  
Work Types: Administrative advocacy, litigation 

CIRESI CONLIN LLP
Location/s: Minnesota
Issue Areas: Commercial, environment, intellectual property, mass torts, medical malpractice, personal injury, product liability, real estate
Work Types: Litigation 

CLARKSON LAW FIRM
Location/s: California, District of Columbia, Michigan, New York
Issue Areas: Antitrust, civil rights, consumer, education, employment, mass torts, medical malpractice, privacy, securities
Work Types: Class action, litigation

THE COCHRAN FIRM
Location/s: Alabama, California, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Illinois, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Utah
Issue Areas: Civil rights, criminal defense, environment, medical malpractice, personal injury, product liability 
Work Types: Class action, litigation 

COHEN GOLDSTEIN, LLP
Location/s: New York
Issue Areas: Family 
Work Types: Alternative dispute resolution, appellate, litigation 

COHEN LAW GROUP
Location/s: Pennsylvania
Issue Areas: Land use, municipal, technology 
Work Types: Administrative advocacy, transactional 

COHEN MILSTEIN SELLERS & TOLL, PLLC
Location/s: District of Columbia, Florida, Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania 
Issue Areas: Antitrust, civil rights, consumer, employment, international human rights, municipal, securities, whistleblower 
Work Types: Class action, litigation
Hiring: Fellowship  

COHEN, WEISS & SIMON LLP
Location/s: New York
Issue Areas: Bankruptcy, employment, labor 
Work Types: Alternative dispute resolution, appellate, litigation 

COLSON HICKS EIDSON
Location/s: District of Columbia, Florida, Louisiana  
Issue Areas: Commercial, criminal defense, mass torts, medical malpractice, personal injury, product liability 
Work Types: Class action, litigation  

CONN KAVANAUGH ROSENTHAL PEISCH & FORD, LLP
Location/s: Massachusetts  
Issue Areas: Corporate, criminal defense, employment, estate planning, family, governance, land use, product liability, real estate 
Work Types: Alternative dispute resolution, litigation, transactional 

CONSTANTINE CANNON
Location/s: California, District of Columbia, New York  
Issue Areas: Antitrust, commercial, intellectual property, whistleblower 
Work Types: Litigation 

CORNFIELD & FELDMAN, LLP
Location/s: Illinois  
Issue Areas: Disability, employment, labor 
Work Types: Alternative dispute resolution, appellate, litigation 

CORREIA & PUTH
Location/s: District of Columbia 
Issue Areas: Civil rights, disability, employment, veterans, whistleblower 
Work Types: Litigation

COTCHETT PITRE & MCCARTHY, LLP
Location/s: California, District of Columbia, New York
Issue Areas: Antitrust, commercial, consumer, employment, environment, governance, intellectual property, mass torts, municipal, personal injury, privacy, securities, whistleblower 
Work Types: Litigation

COULSON P.C.
Location/s: Michigan
Issue Areas: Consumer, environment, product liability
Work Types: Class action, litigation

CRUMILLER PC
Location/s: New York
Issue Areas: Civil rights, employment, medical malpractice
Work Types: Litigation

CUNEO GILBERT & LADUCA, LLP
Location/s: District of Columbia 
Issue Areas: Antitrust, civil rights, consumer, governance, mass torts, municipal, product liability, securities, whistleblower 
Work Types: Administrative advocacy, appellate, class action, litigation 

CUNHA & HOLCOMB, PC
Location/s: Massachusetts
Issue Areas: Criminal defense, family 
Work Types: Alternative dispute resolution, appellate, litigation 

CUNNINGHAM, VOGEL & ROST, P.C.
Location/s: Missouri  
Issue Areas: Economic development, employment, land use, municipal, tax 
Work Types: Mixed

CUSTIS LAW, PC
Location/s: California
Issue Areas: Commercial, employment, personal injury, whistleblower 
Work Types: Class action, litigation  

DANIEL & BESHARA, PC
Location/s: Texas  
Issue Areas: Civil rights, constitutional, environment, housing, municipal 
Work Types: Appellate, class action, litigation 

DAVIES LAW FIRM, PLLC
Location/s: Arkansas
Issue Areas: Estate planning, governance, veterans 
Work Types: Transactional  

DAVIS AND DAVIS, PC
Location/s: Massachusetts  
Issue Areas: Employment, family  
Work Types: Alternative dispute resolution, litigation 

DAVIS FRIEDMAN LAW 
Location/s: Illinois  
Issue Areas: Family, LGBTQ+ 
Work Types: Alternative dispute resolution, litigation 

DAVIS LEVIN LIVINGSTON
Location/s: Hawaii 
Issue Areas: Civil rights, consumer, personal injury, whistleblower 
Work Types: Class action, litigation 

DEEN LAW, PC
Location/s: Alabama
Issue Areas: Criminal defense, personal injury 
Work Types: Appellate, litigation 

DESPRES, SCHWARTZ AND GEOGHEGAN, LTD. 
Location/s: Illinois  
Issue Areas: Civil rights, constitutional, consumer, employment, labor
Work Types: Alternative dispute resolution, appellate, class action, litigation 

DiCELLO LEVITT
Location/s: Alabama, California, District of Columbia, Illinois, New York, Ohio
Issue Areas: Antitrust, civil rights, commercial, environment, employment, mass torts, municipal, personal injury, privacy, product liability, securities, whistleblower
Work Types: Appellate, class action, litigation 

DOLAN LAW FIRM
Location/s: California
Issue Areas: Employment, personal injury 
Work Types: Litigation 

DOLL, JANSEN AND FORD
Location/s: Ohio  
Issue Areas: Employment, labor  
Work Types: Alternative dispute resolution, litigation 

DONAHUE & GOLDBERG, LLP
Location/s: District of Columbia, New York
Issue Areas: Civil rights, constitutional, environment  
Work Types: Appellate, litigation 

DUNCAN & ALLEN LLP
Location/s: District of Columbia 
Issue Areas: Consumer, energy, environment, municipal  
Work Types: Mixed 

THE DWYER LAW FIRM, LLC
Location/s: New Jersey
Issue Areas: Employment, whistleblower 
Work Types: Appellate, litigation 

EDELSON PC
Location/s: California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Illinois  
Issue Areas: Antitrust, consumer, environment, mass torts, municipal, privacy 
Work Types: Appellate, class action, litigation 

EDELSON LECHTZIN LLP
Location/s: Pennsylvania
Issue Areas: Antitrust, consumer, employment, securities
Work Types: Class action

EDLIN GALLAGHER HUIE + BLUM
Location/s: California
Issue Areas: Commercial, corporate, employment, environment, mass torts, product liability, transportation 
Work Types: Alternative dispute resolution, litigation 

EISNER DICTOR & LAMADRID, PC
Location/s: New York
Issue Areas: Education, employment, governance, labor 
Work Types: Alternative dispute resolution, litigation 

ELLIOTT GREENLEAF, PC
Location/s: Delaware, Pennsylvania
Issue Areas: Bankruptcy, civil rights, commercial, criminal defense, education, employment, environment, estate planning, family, governance, intellectual property, real estate, tax 
Work Types: Appellate, litigation, transactional 

ELLWANGER LAW
Location/s: Texas  
Issue Areas: Civil rights, employment, whistleblower 
Work Types: Class action, litigation 

EMERY CELLI BRINCKERHOFF ABADY WARD & MAAZEL LLP
Location/s: New York  
Issue Areas: Civil rights, commercial, criminal defense 
Work Types: Alternative dispute resolution, appellate, litigation 

ENGSTROM LEE LLC
Location/s: Minnesota  
Issue Areas: Civil rights, consumer, employment, whistleblower 
Work Types: Class action, litigation 

ENGSTROM, LIPSCOMB & LACK
Location/s: California
Issue Areas: Commercial, personal injury, product liability  
Work Types: Class action, litigation 

EQUITY LITIGATION GROUP
Location/s: Massachusetts
Issue Areas: Corporate, securities
Work Types: Litigation

EUBANKS & ASSOCIATES, PLLC
Location/s: District of Columbia 
Issue Areas: Consumer, energy, environment, land use  
Work Types: Administrative advocacy, appellate, litigation 

FAIR WORK PC
Location/s: Massachusetts  
Issue Areas: Employment 
Work Types: Class action, litigation  

FAIRMARK PARTNERS, LLP
Location/s: District of Columbia 
Issue Areas: Antitrust, civil rights 
Work Types: Appellate, class action, litigation 

FAULKNER, HOFFMAN & PHILLIPS, LLC
Location/s: Ohio
Issue Areas: Employment, labor 
Work Types: Mixed

FERGUSON, CHAMBERS, & SUMTER, PA
Location/s: North Carolina
Issue Areas: Civil rights, education, employment, medical malpractice, personal injury 
Work Types: Appellate, litigation 

THE FIERBERG NATIONAL LAW GROUP
Location/s: Michigan
Issue Areas: Civil rights, commercial, education, mass torts, personal injury 
Work Types: Litigation 

FINKELSTEIN, BLANKINSHIP, FREI-PEARSON & GARBER, LLP 
Location/s: New York
Issue Areas: Consumer, employment, securities, veterans, whistleblower
Work Types: Appellate, class action, litigation 

FINKELSTEIN THOMPSON LLP
Location/s: California, District of Columbia
Issue Areas: Antitrust, consumer, criminal defense, product liability, whistleblower 
Work Types: Class action, litigation 

FISH POTTER BOLAÑOS, P.C.
Location/s: Illinois  
Issue Areas: Employment, whistleblower 
Work Types: Mixed 

FOLGER LEVIN
Location/s: California
Issue Areas: Corporate, education, employment, estate planning, governance, labor, real estate 
Work Types: Appellate, litigation 

FOX & ROBERTSON
Location/s: Colorado
Issue Areas: Civil rights, disability, prisoners’ rights 
Work Types: Litigation 

FRANK, FREED, SUBIT & THOMAS LLP
Location/s: Washington  
Issue Areas: Employment, labor, whistleblower 
Work Types: Alternative dispute resolution, litigation

FRANK LAW OFFICE
Location/s: Colorado 
Issue Areas: Civil rights, criminal defense
Work Types: Litigation

FREEDMAN BOYD HOLLANDER & GOLDBERG PA
Location/s: New Mexico
Issue Areas: Antitrust, civil rights, commercial, criminal defense, personal injury
Work Types: Litigation

LAW OFFICES OF HOWARD FRIEDMAN, PC
Location/s: Massachusetts
Issue Areas: Civil rights, constitutional, personal injury, prisoners’ rights, privacy 
Work Types: Class action, litigation 

FRIEDMAN & ANSPACH
Location/s: New York
Issue Areas: Employment, labor 
Work Types: Alternative dispute resolution, appellate, class action, litigation  

FRIEDMAN RUBIN
Location/s: Alaska, Washington  
Issue Areas: Mass torts, medical malpractice, personal injury, product liability 
Work Types: Class action, litigation 

GARWIN GERSTEIN & FISHER LLP 
Location/s: New York
Issue Areas: Antitrust
Work Types: Class action, litigation  

THE LAW FIRM OF GARY, WILLIAMS, PARENTI, WATSON, GARY & GILLESPIE, PLLC 
Location/s: Florida  
Issue Areas: Commercial, medical malpractice, personal injury, product liability 
Work Types: Class action, litigation

JON L. GELMAN
Location/s: New Jersey
Issue Areas: Employment, product liability 
Work Types: Litigation 

GETMAN SWEENEY & DUNN
Location/s: New York  
Issue Areas: Employment  
Work Types: Class action, litigation 

GETNICK & GETNICK
Location/s: New York
Issue Areas: Corporate, whistleblower  
Work Types: Mixed 

GIBBONS PC
Location/s: Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania
Issue Areas: Commercial, corporate, employment, environment, intellectual property, labor, privacy, product liability, real estate
Work Types: Administrative advocacy, appellate, class action, litigation
Hiring: Fellowship 

GIBBS LAW GROUP LLP
Location/s: California
Issue Areas: Antitrust, consumer, employment, personal injury, securities, whistleblower 
Work Types: Class action, litigation 

GILBERT EMPLOYMENT LAW, PC
Location/s: Hawaii, Maryland, Nevada  
Issue Areas: Employment, labor, whistleblower
Work Types: Mixed 

GILBERT & SACKMAN
Location/s: California
Issue Areas: Employment, labor 
Work Types: Alternative dispute resolution, class action, litigation 

GIRARD SHARP
Location/s: California
Issue Areas: Antitrust, consumer, securities, whistleblower 
Work Types: Class action, litigation 

GISKAN SOLOTAROFF & ANDERSON LLP
Location/s: New York  
Issue Areas: Commercial, consumer, employment
Work Types: Class action, litigation 

GLADSTEIN REIF & MEGINNISS LLP
Location/s: New York
Issue Areas: Civil rights, employment, labor 
Work Types: Mixed 

GLANCY PRONGAY & MURRAY LLP
Location/s: California, New York
Issue Areas: Antitrust, consumer, employment, intellectual property, securities 
Work Types: Class action, litigation 

VICTOR M. GLASBERG & ASSOCIATES
Location/s: Virginia
Issue Areas: Civil rights, constitutional, employment, housing, prisoners’ rights  
Work Types: Litigation

GOLDFARB & LIPMAN, LLP
Location/s: California
Issue Areas: Economic development, environment, governance, housing, land use, real estate 
Work Types: Mixed 

C.A. GOLDBERG, PLLC
Location/s: New York
Issue Areas: Civil rights, education, employment, privacy, product liability
Work Types: Litigation 

GOLDMAN, SCARLATO & PENNY, PC
Location/s: Pennsylvania
Issue Areas: Antitrust, consumer, securities
Work Types: Class action, litigation

GOLDSTEIN, BORGEN, DARDARIAN & HO
Location/s: California
Issue Areas: Civil rights, disability, employment, environment  
Work Types: Class action, litigation 

GOLDSTEIN & FEUER
Location/s: Massachusetts
Issue Areas: Consumer, employment, family, governance, housing, real estate 
Work Types: Mixed 

GOLDSTEIN, RUSSELL & WOOFTER LLC
Location/s: District of Columbia 
Issue Areas: Civil rights, constitutional, intellectual property, securities 
Work Types: Appellate, class action 

GONZALEZ OLIVIERI LLC
Location/s: Texas  
Issue Areas: Immigration 
Work Types: Appellate, litigation 

GOOD SCHNEIDER CORMIER & FRIED
Location/s: Massachusetts  
Issue Areas: Constitutional, criminal defense, education 
Work Types: Appellate, litigation 

GORDON LAW GROUP LLP
Location/s: Massachusetts  
Issue Areas: Employment, whistleblower 
Work Types: Class action, litigation 

GORLICK, KRAVITZ & LISTHAUS PC
Location/s: New Jersey, New York
Issue Areas: Employment, family, governance, labor, real estate 
Work Types: Class action, litigation, transactional 

GRANT & EISENHOFER P.A.
Location/s: California, Delaware, Illinois, Maryland, New York
Issue Areas: Antitrust, bankruptcy, civil rights, consumer, corporate, environment, governance, mass torts, securities  
Work Types: Alternative dispute resolution, class action, litigation  

GREEN & NOBLIN, P.C.
Location/s: California
Issue Areas: Antitrust, consumer, securities 
Work Types: Class action, litigation 

GREENE BROILLET & WHEELER, LLP
Location/s: California
Issue Areas: Commercial, employment, personal injury, product liability 
Work Types: Litigation 

GREENFIRE LAW, PC
Location/s: California
Issue Areas: Environment, land use 
Work Types: Mixed 

GROSS & BELSKY PC
Location/s: California
Issue Areas: Antitrust, commercial, constitutional, consumer, employment, intellectual property 
Work Types: Appellate, class action, litigation, transactional 

GROSSMAN ROTH YAFFA COHEN
Location/s: Florida  
Issue Areas: Medical malpractice, personal injury, product liability, securities 
Work Types: Appellate, class action, litigation 

GROSSMAN YOUNG & HAMMOND
Location/s: Maryland
Issue Areas: Immigration, international human rights
Work Types: Mixed

GUBB & BARSHAY LLP
Location/s: California
Issue Areas: Economic development, housing  
Work Types: Mixed 

GUNDZIK GUNDZIK HEEGER LLP
Location/s: California
Issue Areas: Economic development, governance, intellectual property, securities 
Work Types: Alternative dispute resolution, litigation, transactional 

GUPTA WESSLER LLP
Location/s: California, District of Columbia, Massachusetts 
Issue Areas: Antitrust, constitutional, consumer, employment  
Work Types: Appellate
Hiring: Fellowship 

GURSKY WIENS & SHANLEY
Location/s: Rhode Island
Issue Areas: Civil rights, employment, labor 
Work Types: Mixed  

GUSTAFSON GLUEK PLLC
Location/s: California, Minnesota
Issue Areas: Antitrust, constitutional, consumer, intellectual property, product liability, securities
Work Types: Appellate, class action, litigation 

GWILLIAM IVARY CHIOSSO CAVALLI & BREWER
Location/s: California
Issue Areas: Commercial, employment, personal injury 
Work Types: Litigation 

HADSELL STORMER RENICK & DAI LLP
Location/s: California
Issue Areas: Antitrust, civil rights, consumer, employment, housing, prisoners’ rights  
Work Types: Class action, litigation 

HAGENS BERMAN SOBOL SHAPIRO LLP
Location/s: Arizona, California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Illinois, Massachusetts, New York, United Kingdom, Washington  
Issue Areas: Antitrust, consumer, employment, environment, intellectual property, personal injury, whistleblower 
Work Types: Class action, litigation 

THE HAGGARD LAW FIRM, P.A.
Location/s: Florida  
Issue Areas: Medical malpractice, personal injury  
Work Types: Litigation 

AARON HALEGUA, PLLC
Location/s: New York  
Issue Areas: Employment, international human rights
Work Types: Litigation 

HALUNEN LAW
Location/s: Arizona, Illinois, Minnesota 
Issue Areas: Consumer, employment, product liability, whistleblower  
Work Types: Class action, litigation 

HANDLEY FARAH & ANDERSON
Location/s: District of Columbia 
Issue Areas: Antitrust, civil rights, consumer, disability, employment, housing, international human rights, securities, whistleblower 
Work Types: Class action, litigation 

HARMON CURRAN
Location/s: District of Columbia 
Issue Areas: Employment, environment, governance
Work Types: Mixed 

HAUSFELD LLP
Location/s: Belgium, California, District of Columbia, Germany, Netherlands, Pennsylvania, Sweden, United Kingdom 
Issue Areas: Antitrust, commercial, consumer, environment, international human rights, mass torts, privacy, product liability 
Work Types: Class action, litigation 

HEISLER, FELDMAN, & ORDORICA, P.C. 
Location/s: Massachusetts
Issue Areas: Consumer, employment, housing 
Work Types: Litigation 

HELLER, HURON, CHERTKOF & SALZMAN, PLLC
Location/s: District of Columbia
Issue Areas: Civil rights, employment, labor, veterans 
Work Types: Alternative dispute resolution, appellate, litigation 

HELMER FRIEDMAN, LLP
Location/s: California
Issue Areas: Consumer, employment, medical malpractice, personal injury, product liability  
Work Types: Class action, litigation 

HERSH & HERSH
Location/s: California
Issue Areas: Consumer, employment, mass torts, personal injury, product liability  
Work Types: Appellate, litigation 

HOBBS, STRAUS, DEAN & WALKER, LLP
Location/s: Alaska, California, District of Columbia, New York, Oklahoma, Oregon  
Issue Areas: Economic development, environment, housing, land use, tax, tribal
Work Types: Mixed 

THE HOFFINGER FIRM, PLLC
Location/s: New York
Issue Areas: Commercial, criminal defense, family  
Work Types: Litigation 

HOFMANN & SCHWEITZER
Location/s: New York
Issue Areas: Employment, personal injury 
Work Types: Litigation 

LEE HOLEN LAW OFFICE
Location/s: Alaska
Issue Areas: Employment 
Work Types: Mixed 

HUGHES, SOCOL, PIERS, RESNICK & DYM, LTD.
Location/s: Illinois  
Issue Areas: Civil rights, commercial, constitutional, corporate, disability, education, employment, immigration, intellectual property, medical malpractice, personal injury, whistleblower
Work Types: Mixed 

IMMIGRANT LAW GROUP PC
Location/s: Oregon 
Issue Areas: Immigration 
Work Types: Mixed 

INCENDII LAW PLLC
Location/s: New York
Issue Areas: Civil rights, prisoners’ rights, privacy
Work Types: Litigation

ISAACS DEVASIA CASTRO & WIEN LLP
Location/s: New York
Issue Areas: Bankruptcy, criminal defense, employment, family, housing, immigration, labor, medical malpractice, personal injury, real estate
Work Types: Mixed 

JACOBS, BURNS, ORLOVE, & HERNANDEZ LLP
Location/s: Illinois  
Issue Areas: Labor, employment, whistleblower 
Work Types: Mixed 

JACOBS & SCHLESINGER LLP
Location/s: California
Issue Areas: Immigration  
Work Types: Mixed 

JAMES & HOFFMAN, P.C.
Location/s: District of Columbia 
Issue Areas: Education, employment, governance, labor  
Work Types: Mixed 

JEGLAW LTD
Location/s: Nevada
Issue Areas: Immigration, personal injury 
Work Types: Mixed 

JOHNSON, JONES, SNELLING, & GILBERT P.C.
Location/s: Illinois
Issue Areas: Civil rights, commercial, education, employment, governance, real estate  
Work Types: Alternative dispute resolution, litigation 

JOHNSON & WEBBERT
Location/s: Maine  
Issue Areas: Civil rights, employment, labor, personal injury
Work Types: Class action, litigation 

JOSEPH & KIRSCHENBAUM LLP
Location/s: New York
Issue Areas: Employment, whistleblower 
Work Types: Class action, litigation 

JUSTICE FIRST
Location/s: California
Issue Areas: Civil rights, constitutional, criminal defense, employment, prisoners’ rights, whistleblower 
Work Types: Administrative advocacy, appellate, litigation  

JUSTICE LAW COLLABORATIVE
Location/s: Massachusetts
Issue Areas: Civil rights, consumer, medical malpractice, personal injury
Work Types: Litigation

KAHN, SMITH & COLLINS, P.A.
Location/s: Maryland
Issue Areas: Criminal defense, education, employment, labor, personal injury 
Work Types: Administrative advocacy, appellate, litigation 

KAIRYS, RUDOVSKY, MESSING, FEINBERG & LIN, LLP
Location/s: Pennsylvania
Issue Areas: Civil rights, constitutional, criminal defense, prisoners’ rights 
Work Types: Litigation 

KALIJARVI, CHUZI, NEWMAN & FITCH, P.C.
Location/s: District of Columbia
Issue Areas: Employment, labor, whistleblower
Work Types: Mixed
Hiring: Fellowship 

KANNER & WHITELEY, LLC
Location/s: Louisiana
Issue Areas: Consumer, environment, whistleblower
Work Types: Class action, litigation 

KAPLAN & GRADY LLC
Location/s: Illinois 
Issue Areas: Civil rights, commercial, employment, prisoners’ rights  
Work Types: Alternative dispute resolution, litigation 

KATOR, PARKS, WEISER & WRIGHT, PLLC
Location/s: District of Columbia
Issue Areas: Employment, veterans, whistleblower  
Work Types: Administrative advocacy, appellate, class action, litigation 

KATZ BANKS KUMIN
Location/s: District of Columbia, Pennsylvania  
Issue Areas: Civil rights, employment, whistleblower 
Work Types: Litigation 
Hiring: Fellowship

KATZ, FRIEDMAN, EISENSTEIN, JOHNSON, BARECK & BERTUCA
Location/s: Illinois
Issue Areas: Disability, employment, labor, medical malpractice, personal injury 
Work Types: Mixed 

LAW OFFICE OF KATZ & WHITEHEAD
Location/s: Massachusetts  
Issue Areas: Civil rights, consumer, criminal defense, employment, family, housing, immigration, personal injury 
Work Types: Appellate, litigation 

KAUFMAN LIEB LEBOWITZ & FRICK
Location/s: New York  
Issue Areas: Civil rights, commercial, constitutional, disability, education, employment, housing, prisoners’ rights 
Work Types: Mixed 

KAZAN, MCCLAIN, SATTERLEY & GREENWOOD
Location/s: California
Issue Areas: Personal injury, product liability  
Work Types: Appellate, litigation 

KEENAN & BHATIA
Location/s: Missouri, New York
Issue Areas: Employment 
Work Types: Litigation 

KELLER POSTMAN
Location/s: District of Columbia, Illinois, Texas
Issue Areas: Antitrust, consumer, employment, mass torts, municipal, privacy, product liability, securities
Work Types: Alternative dispute resolution, appellate, class action, litigation 

KELLER ROHRBACK
Location/s: Arizona, California, Colorado, Montana, New York, Oregon, Washington
Issue Areas: Bankruptcy, commercial, consumer, employment, environment, estate planning, intellectual property, international, mass torts, personal injury, real estate, whistleblower
Work Types: Appellate, class action, litigation

KEMNITZER, BARRON & KRIEG
Location/s: California
Issue Areas: Consumer  
Work Types: Class action, litigation 

KESSLER TOPAZ MELTZER & CHECK, LLP
Location/s: California, Pennsylvania  
Issue Areas: Antitrust, governance, securities, whistleblower 
Work Types: Alternative dispute resolution, class action, litigation 

KETCHMARK AND McCREIGHT, P.C.
Location/s: Missouri
Issue Areas: Employment, personal injury, product liability
Work Types: Litigation

KING LAW OFFICES
Location/s: North Carolina, South Carolina
Issue Areas: Corporate, criminal defense, estate planning, family, intellectual property, personal injury 
Work Types: Litigation, transactional 

KING & SIEGEL LLP
Location/s: California
Issue Areas: Employment, whistleblower 
Work Types: Litigation

THE KING FIRM, LLC
Location/s: Alabama
Issue Areas: Consumer, employment, family, medical malpractice, personal injury, product liability 
Work Types: Litigation 

KLAVENS LAW GROUP, P.C.
Location/s: Massachusetts  
Issue Areas: Corporate, energy, environment, governance, land use, real estate  
Work Types: Transactional  

KLEIN HORNIG, LLP
Location/s: District of Columbia, Massachusetts
Issue Areas: Economic development, governance, housing  
Work Types: Transactional 

KLIMASKI & ASSOCIATES, P.C.
Location/s: District of Columbia 
Issue Areas: Civil rights, criminal defense, employment 
Work Types: Litigation 

KOHN, KOHN & COLAPINTO, LLP
Location/s: District of Columbia
Issue Areas: Whistleblower 
Work Types: Litigation
Hiring: Fellowship  

KOHN, SWIFT & GRAF, PC
Location/s: Pennsylvania
Issue Areas: Antitrust, civil rights, commercial, consumer, estate planning, governance, international human rights, privacy, securities
Work Types: Class action, litigation, transactional

KP LAW
Location/s: Massachusetts
Issue Areas: Education, employment, environment, housing, labor, land use, municipal, privacy, real estate, tax 
Work Types: Mixed  

KOREIN TILLERY
Location/s: California, Illinois, Missouri
Issue Areas: Antitrust, commercial, environment, labor, securities, whistleblower 
Work Types: Litigation  

KOSKOFF KOSKOFF & BIEDER, PC
Location/s: Connecticut
Issue Areas: Civil rights, medical malpractice, personal injury, product liability  
Work Types: Litigation
Hiring: Fellowship 

KRAKOW, SOURIS & LANDRY, LLC
Location/s: Massachusetts
Issue Areas: Labor 
Work Types: Mixed  

KREINDLER & KREINDLER, LLP
Location/s: California, Massachusetts, New York  
Issue Areas: Mass torts, personal injury, product liability  
Work Types: Litigation 

KROKIDAS & BLUESTEIN
Location/s: Massachusetts
Issue Areas: Commercial, education, employment, governance, labor, real estate, tax  
Work Types: Alternative dispute resolution, appellate, litigation  

KURTZ & BLUM, PLLC
Location/s: North Carolina
Issue Areas: Criminal defense, family, personal injury  
Work Types: Litigation, transactional 

KURZBAN, KURZBAN, TETZELI & PRATT, P.A.
Location/s: Florida, Hawaii
Issue Areas: Commercial, corporate, immigration, medical malpractice, personal injury 
Work Types: Mixed 

LABATON KELLER SUCHAROW
Location/s: Delaware, District of Columbia, New York, United Kingdom
Issue Areas: Consumer, governance, privacy, securities
Work Types: Class action, litigation

LANDERHOLM IMMIGRATION, A.P.C.
Location/s: California
Issue Areas: Immigration 
Work Types: Mixed  

LANDERHOLM, P.S.
Location/s: Washington  
Issue Areas: Commercial, corporate, employment, estate planning, land use, personal injury, real estate, tax  
Work Types: Litigation, transactional 

LANGER, GROGAN & DIVER P.C.
Location/s: Pennsylvania
Issue Areas: Antitrust, commercial, consumer, whistleblower
Work Types: Litigation 

LANGROCK SPERRY & WOOL
Location/s: Vermont  
Issue Areas: Civil rights, commercial, criminal defense, employment, environment, estate planning, family, governance, municipal, personal injury, real estate, tax 
Work Types: Alternative dispute resolution, appellate, litigation, transactional  

LANSNER & KUBITSCHEK
Location/s: New York
Issue Areas: Civil rights, family 
Work Types: Appellate, litigation  

LaPOINTE & DAYS LLC
Location/s: Massachusetts
Issue Areas: Estate planning, LGBTQ+, real estate, tax 
Work Types: Transactional 

GERALD LEFCOURT, P.C.
Location/s: New York
Issue Areas: Criminal defense 
Work Types: Appellate, litigation  

LAW OFFICES, ROBERT E. LEHRER
Location/s: Illinois  
Issue Areas: Civil rights, employment 
Work Types: Class action, litigation  

LENOW & McCARTHY
Location/s: Massachusetts
Issue Areas: Employment, labor 
Work Types: Alternative dispute resolution, litigation 

LEVI MERRITHEW HORST
Location/s: Oregon  
Issue Areas: Civil rights, criminal defense 
Work Types: Litigation  

LEVIN SEDRAN & BERMAN LLP
Location/s: Pennsylvania
Issue Areas: Antitrust, environment, mass torts, personal injury, product liability
Work Types: Class action, litigation

LEVY KONIGSBERG LLP 
Location/s: California, Georgia, New Jersey, New York, Washington  
Issue Areas: Medical malpractice, personal injury, product liability, whistleblower  
Work Types: Class action, litigation  

LEVY RATNER PC
Location/s: New York
Issue Areas: Employment, governance, labor  
Work Types: Mixed  

LEVY VINICK BURRELL HYAMS LLP
Location/s: California
Issue Areas: Civil rights, disability, employment  
Work Types: Alternative dispute resolution, litigation  

LICHTEN & LISS-RIORDAN, PC
Location/s: Massachusetts
Issue Areas: Employment, labor 
Work Types: Class action, litigation  

LIEFF, CABRASER, HEIMANN & BERNSTEIN, LLP
Location/s: California, Germany, New York, Tennessee
Issue Areas: Antitrust, civil rights, consumer, employment, environment, mass torts, personal injury, privacy, product liability, securities, tribal, whistleblower 
Work Types: Class action, litigation 

THE LAW OFFICE OF FABIAN LIMA
Location/s: Pennsylvania  
Issue Areas: Criminal defense, immigration  
Work Types: Appellate, litigation  

LIPPMAN, SEMSKER & SALB, LLC
Location/s: Maryland
Issue Areas: Corporate, education, employment, estate planning, family
Work Types: Mixed 

LAW OFFICE OF KEVIN G. LITTLE
Location/s: California
Issue Areas: Bankruptcy, civil rights, commercial, corporate, criminal defense, employment, estate planning, family, medical malpractice, personal injury  
Work Types: Mixed  

LIVINGSTON, ADLER, PULDA, MEIKLEJOHN & KELLY, PC
Location/s: Connecticut
Issue Areas: Employment, labor 
Work Types: Mixed 

LOCKRIDGE GRINDAL NAUEN P.L.L.P. 
Location/s: Minnesota
Issue Areas: Antitrust, commercial, consumer, corporate, employment, environment, intellectual property, land use, mass torts, municipal, personal injury, product liability, real estate, securities, tribal 
Work Types: Alternative dispute resolution, litigation 

LOEVY & LOEVY
Location/s: Illinois, Colorado, Massachusetts  
Issue Areas: Civil rights, commercial, constitutional, prisoners’ rights, privacy, whistleblower  
Work Types: Litigation
Hiring: Fellowship 

LOONEY, LOONEY, CHADWELL & HAMBY, PLLC
Location/s: Tennessee  
Issue Areas: Commercial, criminal defense, estate planning, family, governance  
Work Types: Alternative dispute resolution, litigation, transactional 

LOZEAU DRURY LLP
Location/s: California
Issue Areas: Employment, labor, tribal  
Work Types: Administrative advocacy, litigation 

MACDONALD HOAGUE & BAYLESS
Location/s: Washington
Issue Areas: Civil rights, employment, immigration, personal injury  
Work Types: Mixed  

MAES LAW, P.C.
Location/s: Colorado
Issue Areas: Employment, personal injury 
Work Types: Litigation  

MAKAREM & ASSOCIATES
Location/s: California
Issue Areas: Employment  
Work Types: Class action, litigation 

MALLISON & MARTINEZ
Location/s: California
Issue Areas: Employment, whistleblower 
Work Types: Class action, litigation 

ROBERT B. MANN LAW OFFICE
Location/s: Rhode Island
Issue Areas: Criminal defense  
Work Types: Appellate, litigation 

MARTIN & JONES, PLLC
Location/s: North Carolina  
Issue Areas: Employment, medical malpractice, personal injury, product liability 
Work Types: Class action, litigation 

MARTINEZ AGUILASOCHO LAW, INC.
Location/s: California
Issue Areas: Employment, governance, labor 
Work Types: Class action, litigation  

MASFERRER AND ASSOCIATES, PC
Location/s: Massachusetts  
Issue Areas: Criminal defense, immigration 
Work Types: Mixed  

MASSEY & GAIL
Location/s: California, District of Columbia, Illinois
Issue Areas: Antitrust, bankruptcy, commercial, consumer, constitutional, intellectual property, privacy, tax  
Work Types: Administrative advocacy, alternative dispute resolution, appellate, litigation 

MASTAGNI HOLSTEDT
Location/s: California
Issue Areas: Employment, labor, personal injury, whistleblower  
Work Types: Alternative dispute resolution, litigation  

MAXTED LAW LLC
Location/s: Colorado 
Issue Areas: Civil rights, criminal defense, prisoners’ rights 
Work Types: Appellate, class action, litigation

McALLISTER OLIVARIUS 
Location/s: New York, United Kingdom  
Issue Areas: Commercial, education, employment, immigration, LGBTQ+, personal injury, privacy, whistleblower  
Work Types: Mixed

McCRACKEN, STEMERMAN & HOLSBERRY, LLP
Location/s: California, Nevada
Issue Areas: Civil rights, employment, labor, whistleblower  
Work Types: Appellate, class action, litigation 

McCUNE LAW GROUP
Location/s: Arizona, California
Issue Areas: Civil rights, environment, medical malpractice, personal injury, product liability
Work Types: Mixed

McDONALD LAMOND CANZONERI
Location/s: Massachusetts 
Issue Areas: Labor 
Work Types: Mixed  

McGILLIVARY STEELE ELKIN, LLP
Location/s: District of Columbia
Issue Areas: Employment, labor  
Work Types: Mixed 

McGUINNESS LAW GROUP, PC
Location/s: California
Issue Areas: Disability, employment, housing
Work Types: Alternative dispute resolution, litigation

McINTYRE TATE, LLP
Location/s: Rhode Island
Issue Areas: Commercial, family, personal injury, product liability
Work Types: Class action, litigation 

McKANNA BISHOP JOFFE LLP
Location/s: Ohio
Issue Areas: Employment, labor 
Work Types: Mixed  

McKNIGHT, CANZANO, SMITH, RADTKE & BRAULT, P.C. 
Location/s: Michigan  
Issue Areas: Employment, labor 
Work Types: Mixed  

McLANE, BEDNARSKI & LITT, LLP
Location/s: California
Issue Areas: Civil rights, criminal defense, housing, prisoners’ rights 
Work Types: Appellate, class action, litigation

McVEY MULLERY & DULBERG
Location/s: California
Issue Areas: Immigration 
Work Types: Mixed  

MEDINA ORTHWEIN LLP
Location/s: California
Issue Areas: Civil rights, employment, LGBTQ+, prisoners’ rights 
Work Types: Class action, litigation  

MEHRI & SKALET, PLLC
Location/s: District of Columbia
Issue Areas: Civil rights, consumer, employment, whistleblower 
Work Types: Class action, litigation 

CYRUS D. MEHTA & PARTNERS PLLC
Location/s: New York  
Issue Areas: Immigration 
Work Types: Mixed 

MELEHY & ASSOCIATES LLC
Location/s: District of Columbia
Issue Areas: Employment  
Work Types: Litigation  

MENKEN SIMPSON & ROZGER LLP
Location/s: New York
Issue Areas: Civil rights, employment, whistleblower
Work Types: Class action, litigation, transactional 

MESSING, RUDAVSKY & WELIKY, PC
Location/s: Massachusetts
Issue Areas: Employment, labor, whistleblower  
Work Types: Mixed  

MESSINGER & OJILE, PLLP
Location/s: Minnesota
Issue Areas: Estate planning, family, governance, real estate
Work Types: Litigation, transactional  

MEYER, SUOZZI, ENGLISH & KLEIN, P.C.
Location/s: District of Columbia, New York  
Issue Areas: Bankruptcy, civil rights, commercial, corporate, criminal defense, employment, estate planning, labor, land use, personal injury, real estate  
Work Types: Alternative dispute resolution, appellate, litigation, transactional 

MEYERS NAVE
Location/s: California
Issue Areas: Constitutional, economic development, employment, energy, environment, housing, labor, municipal, real estate, transportation 
Work Types: Litigation, transactional
Hiring: 1L Diversity Fellowship Program 

MIGLIACCIO & RATHOD LLP
Location/s: District of Columbia
Issue Areas: Civil rights, consumer, employment, environment, privacy, product liability  
Work Types: Class action, litigation 
Hiring: Fellowship 

MILBERG COLEMAN BRYSON PHILLIPS GROSSMAN, PLLC
Location/s: California, District of Columbia, Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Netherlands, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Tennessee, Washington
Issue Areas: Antitrust, commercial, consumer, environment, employment, mass torts, municipal, privacy, product liability, securities, whistleblower  
Work Types: Appellate, class action, litigation  

MINAMI TAMAKI, LLP
Location/s: California
Issue Areas: Consumer, corporate, employment, governance, immigration, personal injury  
Work Types: Class action, litigation 

MINER, BARNHILL & GALLAND, P.C.
Location/s: California, Illinois, Wisconsin 
Issue Areas: Civil rights, constitutional, consumer, employment, environment, governance, housing, municipal, real estate 
Work Types: Alternative dispute resolution, class action, litigation, transactional 

MIYARES AND HARRINGTON LLP
Location/s: Massachusetts
Issue Areas: Energy, employment, environment, labor, land use, municipal  
Work Types: Mixed 

MIZRAHI LAW
Location/s: California
Issue Areas: Employment  
Work Types: Alternative dispute resolution  

JAMES D. MONTGOMERY AND ASSOCIATES, LTD.
Location/s: Illinois
Issue Areas: Civil rights, medical malpractice, personal injury 
Work Types: Litigation  

MOON LAW GROUP
Location/s: California
Issue Areas: Employment, whistleblower  
Work Types: Class action, litigation  

MOONEY, GREEN, SAINDON, MURPHY & WELCH, P.C.
Location/s: District of Columbia 
Issue Areas: Labor  
Work Types: Mixed  

MORGAN VERKAMP
Location/s: Ohio  
Issue Areas: Whistleblower  
Work Types: Litigation  

MOTLEY RICE
Location/s: Connecticut, District of Columbia, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, West Virginia
Issue Areas: Antitrust, consumer, international human rights, municipal, product liability, personal injury, securities, transportation, whistleblower
Work Types: Class action, litigation 

THE LAW OFFICES OF MICHAEL M. MULDER
Location/s: Illinois
Issue Areas: Consumer, employment, securities, whistleblower 
Work Types: Class action, litigation  

MURPHY ANDERSON, PLLC
Location/s: District of Columbia, Massachusetts, Ohio  
Issue Areas: Civil rights, employment, governance, labor, whistleblower 
Work Types: Mixed 
Hiring: Fellowship

MURRAY LAW FIRM
Location/s: Louisiana
Issue Areas: Antitrust, consumer, environment, mass torts
Work Types: Appellate, class action, litigation

MUSKOVITZ & LEMMERBROCK, LLC
Location/s: Ohio  
Issue Areas: Employment, labor  
Work Types: Alternative dispute resolution, litigation 

NASTLAW, LLC
Location/s: Pennsylvania
Issue Areas: Antitrust, consumer, product liability 
Work Types: Class action, litigation

NEUFELD SCHECK BRUSTIN HOFFMANN & FREUDENBERGER, LLP
Location/s: New York
Issue Areas: Civil rights, constitutional, prisoners’ rights 
Work Types: Litigation
Hiring: Fellowship 

NEWVILLE PLC
Location/s: Minnesota  
Issue Areas: Civil rights, employment  
Work Types: Alternative dispute resolution, litigation

NICHOLS KASTER
Location/s: California, Minnesota  
Issue Areas: Civil rights, employment  
Work Types: Litigation  

NIELSEN MERKSAMER PARRINELLO GROSS & LEONI, LLP
Location/s: California
Issue Areas: Education, elections, governance, municipal, privacy 
Work Types: Administrative advocacy, litigation 

NOBLE, WICKERSHAM & HEART, LLP
Location/s: Massachusetts
Issue Areas: Environment, land use, municipal 
Work Types: Mixed 

NORRIS LAW GROUP
Location/s: District of Columbia
Issue Areas: Civil rights, housing
Work Types: Litigation 

O’DONNELL, SCHWARTZ & ANDERSON, P.C.
Location/s: District of Columbia
Issue Areas: Civil rights, employment, labor  
Work Types: Alternative dispute resolution, litigation, transactional  

O’DONOGHUE & O’DONOGHUE LLP
Location/s: District of Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania 
Issue Areas: Employment, labor 
Work Types: Mixed  
 
OLSON GRIMSLEY KAWANABE HINCHCLIFF & MURRAY  
Location/s: Colorado 
Issue Areas: Antitrust, civil rights, consumer, intellectual property, mass torts  
Work Types: Appellate, litigation  

OLSON REMCHO
Location/s: California
Issue Areas: Education, elections, governance, municipal
Work Types: Administrative advocacy, appellate, litigation 

OSBORNE LAW OFFICES, P.C.
Location/s: District of Columbia
Issue Areas: Employment, labor, whistleblower 
Work Types: Mixed  

OTTINGER EMPLOYMENT LAWYERS
Location/s: California, New York  
Issue Areas: Employment, whistleblower 
Work Types: Alternative dispute resolution, class action, litigation 

OUTTEN & GOLDEN LLP
Location/s: California, District of Columbia, New York
Issue Areas: Employment, whistleblower 
Work Types: Alternative dispute resolution, appellate, class action, litigation 

PAK HEINZ PLLC
Location/s: District of Columbia
Issue Areas: Consumer, employment, privacy
Work Types: Litigation

PARKS, CHESIN & WALBERT
Location/s: Georgia  
Issue Areas: Civil rights, commercial, employment, personal injury, whistleblower  
Work Types: Appellate, litigation  

PATTERSON HARKAVY LLP
Location/s: North Carolina
Issue Areas: Civil rights, criminal defense, employment, labor  
Work Types: Alternative dispute resolution, appellate, litigation 

PAULSON COLETTI TRIAL ATTORNEYS PC
Location/s: Oregon, Washington
Issue Areas: Medical malpractice, personal injury 
Work Types: Litigation 

PAWA LAW GROUP, P.C.
Location/s: Massachusetts
Issue Areas: Environment, mass torts, personal injury
Work Types: Litigation 

PEARSON WARSHAW, LLP
Location/s: California, Minnesota
Issue Areas: Antitrust, commercial, consumer, employment, product liability, securities 
Work Types: Alternative dispute resolution, class action, litigation 

PEOPLE’S LAW OFFICE
Location/s: Illinois  
Issue Areas: Civil rights, criminal defense, prisoners’ rights 
Work Types: Appellate, litigation  

PERSEUS STRATEGIES
Location/s: District of Columbia 
Issue Areas: Corporate, governance, international human rights  
Work Types: Mixed 

PESSIN KATZ LAW, P.A. (PK LAW)
Location/s: Maryland
Issue Areas: Commercial, corporate, criminal defense, education, employment, estate planning, family, intellectual property, labor, medical malpractice, real estate, tax 
Work Types: Alternative dispute resolution, litigation, transactional 

PETRUCELLY, NORRIS & MINSCH, P.C.
Location/s: Massachusetts
Issue Areas: Civil rights, consumer, employment, estate planning, family, governance, housing, personal injury, real estate  
Work Types: Mixed 

THE PHELPS LAW GROUP
Location/s: California
Issue Areas: Consumer, employment 
Work Types: Litigation 

PHILLIPS & COHEN LLP
Location/s: California, District of Columbia, Florida, New York, United Kingdom
Issue Areas: Whistleblower 
Work Types: Litigation  

PHILLIPS, ERLEWINE, GIVEN & CARLIN LLP 
Location/s: California
Issue Areas: Commercial, employment, intellectual property, personal injury
Work Types: Appellate, class action, litigation  

PHILLIPS, RICHARD & RIND, P.A.
Location/s: Florida  
Issue Areas: Employment, labor  
Work Types: Mixed 

PITTA & BAIONE LLP
Location/s: District of Columbia, New York
Issue Areas: Mass torts  
Work Types: Litigation 

PODHURST ORSECK, P.A.
Location/s: Florida  
Issue Areas: Commercial, personal injury  
Work Types: Appellate, class action, litigation 

POLLOCK COHEN LLP
Location/s: California, New York, Pennsylvania   
Issue Areas: Commercial, whistleblower
Work Types: Appellate, class action, litigation 

THE PREVIANT LAW FIRM, S.C.
Location/s: Wisconsin  
Issue Areas: Employment, labor, personal injury  
Work Types: Mixed 

PROVOST UMPHREY LAW FIRM, LLP
Location/s: Tennessee, Texas
Issue Areas: Employment, personal injury, product liability, whistleblower 
Work Types: Class action, litigation 

PYLE ROME EHRENBERG PC
Location/s: Massachusetts, Vermont
Issue Areas: Employment, labor 
Work Types: Mixed 

RABINOWITZ, BOUDIN, STANDARD, KRINSKY & LIEBERMAN, P.C.
Location/s: New York
Issue Areas: Constitutional, civil rights, commercial, estate planning, governance, intellectual property, international 
Work Types: Mixed 

RADICE LAW FIRM
Location/s: New Jersey
Issue Areas: Antitrust
Work Types: Appellate, class action, litigation

RANKIN & SULTAN
Location/s: Massachusetts
Issue Areas: Criminal defense 
Work Types: Appellate, litigation 

RATHOD | MOHAMEDBHAI, LLC
Location/s: Colorado
Issue Areas: Civil rights, education, employment
Work Types: Litigation  

REICH ADELL & CVITAN
Location/s: California
Issue Areas: Employment, labor 
Work Types: Mixed 

RELMAN COLFAX PLLC
Location/s: District of Columbia
Issue Areas: Civil rights, consumer, education, employment, housing 
Work Types: Class action, litigation  

RENNE PUBLIC LAW GROUP
Location/s: California
Issue Areas: Elections, employment, governance, labor, municipal  
Work Types: Administrative advocacy, appellate, litigation 

RENO & CAVANAUGH, PLLC
Location/s: District of Columbia, Maryland, Tennessee
Issue Areas: Corporate, economic development, housing, real estate, tax 
Work Types: Mixed 

RITZ CLARK & BEN-ASHER LLP
Location/s: New York
Issue Areas: Employment, whistleblower 
Work Types: Alternative dispute resolution, litigation 

ROBBINS GELLER RUDMAN & DOWD LLP
Location/s: California, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, New York, Pennsylvania, Tennessee
Issue Areas: Antitrust, consumer, corporate, securities, whistleblower  
Work Types: Class action, litigation 

ROBBLEE DETWILER PLLP
Location/s: Washington  
Issue Areas: Labor  
Work Types: Mixed 

ROBINSON CURLEY P.C.
Location/s: Illinois  
Issue Areas: Commercial, employment, intellectual property  
Work Types: Appellate, litigation 

THE ROCK LAW FIRM
Location/s: California
Issue Areas: Commercial, governance, housing
Work Types: Mixed 

LAW OFFICE OF MAX RODRIGUEZ
Location/s: New York
Issue Areas: Constitutional, whistleblower
Work Types: Appellate, litigation

ROSEN BIEN GALVAN & GRUNFELD, LLP
Location/s: California
Issue Areas: Antitrust, civil rights, commercial, education, employment, intellectual property  
Work Types: Alternative dispute resolution, appellate, class action, litigation
Hiring: Fellowship  

ROSS SILVERMAN SNYDER TIETJEN LLP (RSST LAW GROUP)
Location/s: Massachusetts  
Issue Areas: Immigration 
Work Types: Mixed 

ROTHNER, SEGALL & GREENSTONE
Location/s: California
Issue Areas: Employment, labor  
Work Types: Administrative advocacy, alternate dispute resolution, litigation  

STEVEN J. ROTTMAN, ESQ.
Location/s: Colorado
Issue Areas: Commercial
Work Types: Alternate dispute resolution 

ROUDA FEDER TIETJEN & MCGUINN
Location/s: California
Issue Areas: Medical malpractice, personal injury, product liability 
Work Types: Litigation  

RUBIN, KIDNEY, MYER & VINCENT
Location/s: Vermont
Issue Areas: Criminal defense, family, personal injury, product liability 
Work Types: Appellate, litigation 

LAW OFFICES OF JOEL B. RUDIN, P.C.
Location/s: New York  
Issue Areas: Civil rights, criminal defense 
Work Types: Appellate, litigation 

RUDY EXELROD ZIEFF & LOWE LLP
Location/s: California
Issue Areas: Employment, whistleblower 
Work Types: Alternative dispute resolution, class action, litigation 

RUKIN HYLAND & RIGGIN LLP
Location/s: California
Issue Areas: Employment, whistleblower 
Work Types: Alternative dispute resolution, class action, litigation 

SALAHI PC
Location/s: California
Issue Areas: Antitrust, civil rights, commercial, consumer, employment
Work Types: Litigation

SALVATORE PRESCOTT PORTER & PORTER, PLLC
Location/s: Illinois, Michigan
Issue Areas: Civil rights, commercial, criminal defense, education, employment 
Work Types: Litigation 

SANDULLI GRACE, PC
Location/s: Massachusetts  
Issue Areas: Employment, labor 
Work Types: Mixed 

SANFORD HEISLER SHARP, LLP
Location/s: California, District of Columbia, Maryland, New York, Tennessee
Issue Areas: Employment, whistleblower  
Work Types: Appellate, class action, litigation
Hiring: Fellowship 

LAW OFFICES OF JIMMY M. SANTOS, PLLC
Location/s: New York  
Issue Areas: Employment, labor  
Work Types: Litigation 

SAUDER SCHELKOPF
Location/s: Pennsylvania 
Issue Areas: Consumer, employment, personal injury, product liability, whistleblower
Work Types: Class action, litigation 

SCHAEFER HALLEEN, LLC
Location/s: Minnesota 
Issue Areas: Employment 
Work Types: Class action, litigation  

THE SCHLEHR LAW FIRM
Location/s: California 
Issue Areas: Employment, veterans, whistleblower 
Work Types: Litigation 

SCHNEIDER WALLACE COTTRELL KONECKY LLP
Location/s: California, North Carolina, Puerto Rico, Texas
Issue Areas: Antitrust, commercial, consumer, employment, product liability, securities, whistleblower
Work Types: Alternative dispute resolution, class action, litigation 

SCHONBRUN SEPLOW HARRIS HOFFMAN & ZELDES, LLP
Location/s: California
Issue Areas: Civil rights, employment, international human rights 
Work Types: Appellate, class action, litigation  

SCHROETER GOLDMARK & BENDER
Location/s: Washington
Issue Areas: Employment, medical malpractice, personal injury, product liability  
Work Types: Class action, litigation 

SCHUBERT JONCKHEER & KOLBE
Location/s: California
Issue Areas: Antitrust, consumer, employment, privacy, securities 
Work Types: Class action, litigation 

SCHUCHAT, COOK & WERNER
Location/s: Missouri
Issue Areas: Elections, employment, labor 
Work Types: Mixed 

BRYAN SCHWARTZ LAW, P.C.
Location/s: California
Issue Areas: Employment, whistleblower 
Work Types: Class action, litigation  

SCHWARTZ & POSNOCK
Location/s: New Jersey
Issue Areas: Criminal defense  
Work Types: Appellate, litigation 

SCHWARTZ, STEINSAPIR, DOHRMANN & SOMMERS
Location/s: California
Issue Areas: Employment, labor 
Work Types: Mixed 

SEARCY DENNEY SCAROLA BARNHART & SHIPLEY
Location/s: Florida 
Issue Areas: Medical malpractice, personal injury
Work Types: Litigation 

SEDEY HARPER WESTHOFF P.C.
Location/s: Missouri  
Issue Areas: Employment, personal injury, product liability  
Work Types: Litigation 

SEEGER WEISS LLP
Location/s: New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania  
Issue Areas: Antitrust, commercial, environment, mass torts, personal injury, product liability, securities, whistleblower 
Work Types: Class action, litigation  

SEGAL ROITMAN LLP
Location/s: Massachusetts 
Issue Areas: Employment, labor  
Work Types: Mixed 

SENA FAMILY LAW
Location/s: California
Issue Areas: Family 
Work Types: Alternative dispute resolution  

SEPPINNI LAW
Location/s: New York
Issue Areas: Employment
Work Types: Litigation

SHAPIRO HABER & URMY LLP
Location/s: Massachusetts
Issue Areas: Antitrust, consumer, employment, securities, whistleblower 
Work Types: Class action, litigation 

SHAPIRO & TEITELBAUM LLP
Location/s: Massachusetts
Issue Areas: Civil rights, criminal defense, personal injury, product liability, prisoners’ rights  
Work Types: Administrative advocacy, appellate, litigation 

SHER EDLING LLP
Location/s: California 
Issue Areas: Environment
Work Types: Litigation 

SHERMAN DUNN, P.C.
Location/s: District of Columbia 
Issue Areas: Governance, labor  
Work Types: Mixed 

SHISHIDO TAREN GOLDSWORTHY, PLLC
Location/s: Washington
Issue Areas: Civil rights, consumer, disability, employment, housing, personal injury
Work Types: Class action, litigation 

SHUTE, MIHALY & WEINBERGER LLP
Location/s: California
Issue Areas: Energy, environment, municipal, tribal  
Work Types: Appellate, litigation 
Hiring: Fellowship 

SIEGEL, YEE, BRUNNER & MEHTA
Location/s: California
Issue Areas: Civil rights, employment, estate planning, labor, personal injury, whistleblower 
Work Types: Class action, litigation, transactional 

SLEVIN & HART, P.C.
Location/s: District of Columbia, New York 
Issue Areas: Employment 
Work Types: Mixed 

CLAUDIA SLOVINSKY & ASSOCIATES, PLLC
Location/s: New York
Issue Areas: Immigration  
Work Types: Mixed  

SMITH & LOWNEY, PLLC
Location/s: Washington  
Issue Areas: Consumer, environment, land use, whistleblower 
Work Types: Class action, litigation  

SMITH MULLIN, P.C.
Location/s: New Jersey  
Issue Areas: Employment, whistleblower 
Work Types: Appellate, litigation 

SONOSKY, CHAMBERS, SACHSE, ENDRESON & PERRY, LLP
Location/s: Alaska, California, District of Columbia, New Mexico, Oregon 
Issue Areas: Economic development, employment, environment, housing, land use, tax, tribal 
Work Types: Administrative advocacy, litigation

SPARK JUSTICE LAW LLC
Location/s: Colorado
Issue Areas: Civil rights, education, employment, housing
Work Types: Litigation

SPEAR WILDERMAN, P.C.
Location/s: New Jersey, Pennsylvania
Issue Areas: Employment, labor 
Work Types: Mixed 

SPECTOR ROSEMAN & KODROFF, PC
Location/s: Pennsylvania
Issue Areas: Antitrust, consumer
Work Types: Class action, litigation

SPIEGEL & McDIARMID LLP
Location/s: District of Columbia
Issue Areas: Energy 
Work Types: Administrative advocacy, appellate, litigation 

SPIVAK LIPTON LLP
Location/s: New York
Issue Areas: Employment, labor 
Work Types: Mixed 

SR HOLGUIN, PC
Location/s: California 
Issue Areas: Employment, labor 
Work Types: Mixed 

LAW OFFICE OF MARK D. STERN 
Location/s: Massachusetts  
Issue Areas: Employment, housing, labor, personal injury  
Work Types: Alternative dispute resolution, litigation 

STEYER LOWENTHAL BOODROOKAS ALVAREZ & SMITH, LLP
Location/s: California 
Issue Areas: Commercial, education, employment, labor, real estate  
Work Types: Class action, litigation 

STOWELL & FRIEDMAN, LTD.
Location/s: Illinois 
Issue Areas: Employment, labor 
Work Types: Alternative dispute resolution, class action, litigation 

STRUMWASSER & WOOCHER LLP
Location/s: California 
Issue Areas: Civil rights, constitutional, education, elections, employment, environment, labor, land use, municipal 
Work Types: Administrative advocacy, appellate, litigation 

STULBERG & WALSH LLP
Location/s: New York
Issue Areas: Disability, employment, labor 
Work Types: Alternative dispute resolution, appellate, class action, litigation 

THE STURDEVANT LAW FIRM
Location/s: California 
Issue Areas: Civil rights, consumer, disability, employment 
Work Types: Class action, litigation 

STEVEN L. SUGARMAN & ASSOCIATES
Location/s: Pennsylvania  
Issue Areas: Bankruptcy, commercial, estate planning, housing, land use, real estate 
Work Types: Alternative dispute resolution, litigation, transactional 

SUGARMAN AND SUGARMAN, P.C.
Location/s: Massachusetts 
Issue Areas: Mass torts, medical malpractice, personal injury, product liability, whistleblower 
Work Types: Litigation 

SUTIN, THAYER & BROWNE
Location/s: New Mexico
Issue Areas: Bankruptcy, commercial, corporate, employment, energy, environment, estate planning, family, intellectual property, labor, municipal, personal injury, product liability, real estate, tax   
Work Types: Alternative dispute resolution, appellate, litigation  

TAUS, CEBULASH & LANDAU, LLP
Location/s: New York
Issue Areas: Antitrust, consumer  
Work Types: Class action

TERRELL MARSHALL LAW GROUP
Location/s: Washington
Issue Areas: Civil rights, commercial, consumer, employment
Work Types: Appellate, class action, litigation

TERRIS, PRAVLIK & MILLIAN, LLP
Location/s: District of Columbia 
Issue Areas: Civil rights, employment, environment 
Work Types: Class action, litigation 

KYLE TODD P.C.
Location/s: California
Issue Areas: Employment  
Work Types: Litigation 

TRISTER, ROSS, SCHADLER & GOLD, PLLC
Location/s: District of Columbia
Issue Areas: Elections, employment, governance, intellectual property, labor 
Work Types: Mixed 

TUCKNER, SIPSER, WEINSTOCK & SIPSER, LLP
Location/s: New York
Issue Areas: Employment 
Work Types: Litigation 

TYCKO & ZAVAREEI LLP
Location/s: District of Columbia, California  
Issue Areas: Commercial, constitutional, employment, privacy, product liability, whistleblower 
Work Types: Appellate, class action, litigation
Hiring: Fellowship  

DAVID TYKULSKER & ASSOCIATES
Location/s: New Jersey
Issue Areas: Employment, labor 
Work Types: Mixed 

UPPER SEVEN LAW
Location/s: Montana  
Issue Areas: Civil rights  
Work Types: Class action, litigation 

VALERIAN LAW, P.C.
Location/s: California
Issue Areas: Consumer, employment
Work Types: Class action, litigation

VAN DER HOUT LLP
Location/s: California
Issue Areas: Immigration 
Work Types: Mixed 

VARNELL & WARWICK
Location/s: Florida
Issue Areas: Antitrust, civil rights, consumer, employment, environment, product liability, securities
Work Types: Class action, litigation

THE VEEN FIRM
Location/s: California
Issue Areas: Housing, personal injury, product liability 
Work Types: Litigation 

VENSKUS & ASSOCIATES
Location/s: California
Issue Areas: Environment, housing 
Work Types: Litigation 

THE VILLEGAS LAW FIRM, APC 
Location/s: California
Issue Areas: Employment  
Work Types: Class action, litigation 

VLADECK, RASKIN & CLARK, P.C.
Location/s: New York
Issue Areas: Civil rights, criminal defense, disability, employment  
Work Types: Class action, litigation 

VOGEL SLADE & GOLDSTEIN, LLP
Location/s: District of Columbia 
Issue Areas: Whistleblower 
Work Types: Litigation  

WADDELL & MAGAN, P.C.
Location/s: Montana
Issue Areas: Antitrust, commercial, employment, intellectual property, medical malpractice, personal injury, product liability, whistleblower  
Work Types: Litigation 

WAGSTAFFE, VON LOEWENFELDT, BUSCH & RADWICK LLP
Location/s: California
Issue Areas: Commercial, constitutional, intellectual property, municipal 
Work Types: Appellate, litigation 

WALKER, HAMILTON & KEARNS
Location/s: California
Issue Areas: Employment, medical malpractice, personal injury, product liability  
Work Types: Litigation 

WALKUP, MELODIA, KELLY & SCHOENBERGER
Location/s: California
Issue Areas: Medical malpractice, personal injury, product liability 
Work Types: Litigation 

WANG HECKER LLP
Location/s: New York  
Issue Areas: Civil rights, commercial, constitutional, criminal defense, education, housing, prisoners’ rights  
Work Types: Appellate, class action, litigation 

WEEN & KOZEK
Location/s: New York
Issue Areas: Estate planning, housing, intellectual property, real estate 
Work Types: Litigation, transactional  

WEINBERG, ROGER & ROSENFELD
Location/s: California, Hawaii, Nevada
Issue Areas: Employment, labor 
Work Types: Mixed  

THE WESTON FIRM
Location/s: California
Issue Areas: Consumer  
Work Types: Class action  

WHATLEY KALLAS LLP
Location/s: Alabama, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York
Issue Areas: Antitrust, commercial, consumer 
Work Types: Alternative dispute resolution, litigation  

WHISTLEBLOWER LAW COLLABORATIVE
Location/s: Massachusetts
Issue Areas: Whistleblower 
Work Types: Litigation 

WHISTLEBLOWER PARTNERS
Location/s: California, District of Columbia, New York
Issue Areas: Whistleblower 
Work Types: Litigation 

WIGDOR LAW LLP
Location/s: New York  
Issue Areas: Employment 
Work Types: Class action, litigation 

WIGGINS CHILDS PANTAZIS FISHER GOLDFARB, LLC
Location/s: Alabama, District of Columbia, Florida
Issue Areas: Civil rights, commercial, consumer, education, employment, environment, mass torts, personal injury, product liability, whistleblower  
Work Types: Class action, litigation 

WILLENSON LAW, LLC
Location/s: Illinois  
Issue Areas: Civil rights, employment, whistleblower 
Work Types: Class action, litigation 

STEPHEN WILLIAMS LAW PC
Location/s: California, New York
Issue Areas: Antitrust, civil rights, constitutional, employment
Work Types: Class action, litigation

WISNER BAUM
Location/s: California, District of Columbia
Issue Areas: Mass torts, personal injury, product liability, whistleblower  
Work Types: Class action, litigation 

WITTELS MCINTURFF PALIKOVIC
Location/s: New York
Issue Areas: Civil rights, consumer, employment, environment, mass torts, personal injury, whistleblower 
Work Types: Class action, litigation 

WOHLNER KAPLON CUTLER HALFORD ROSENFELD & LEVY
Location/s: California
Issue Areas: Labor  
Work Types: Mixed 

LAW OFFICES OF BRUCE A. YOUNG
Location/s: New York  
Issue Areas: Bankruptcy, criminal defense, estate planning, family, personal injury 
Work Types: Appellate, litigation 

THE YOUNGDAHL LAW FIRM, P.C. 
Location/s: Texas 
Issue Areas: Labor, transportation  
Work Types: Mixed  

ZALKIND, DUNCAN & BERNSTEIN, LLP
Location/s: Massachusetts
Issue Areas: Criminal defense, education, employment 
Work Types: Appellate, litigation 

ZEITGEIST LAW, PC 
Location/s: California
Issue Areas: Intellectual property, privacy 
Work Types: Mixed 

ZIMMERMAN REED LLP
Location/s: Arizona, California, Minnesota 
Issue Areas: Antitrust, consumer, employment, mass torts, municipal, privacy, whistleblower
Work Types: Litigation

ZMO LAW PLLC
Location/s: New York  
Issue Areas: Civil rights, criminal defense  
Work Types: Appellate, litigation 

Acknowledgements 

At OPIA: 
Carolyn Stafford Stein (Assistant Director for Alumni Advising) 
Alexa Shabecoff (Assistant Dean for Public Service) 
Gabriella Elanbeck (Summer Fellow) 
Kimberly Schroer (Summer Fellow)
Bridget Abril (Intern)
Carla Hamilton (Intern)

At Columbia Law School’s Center for Public Interest Law (CPIL): 
Harlene Katzman (former Dean of CPIL) 
Ellen Chapnick (Dean for Social Justice Initiatives) 
Haeya Yim (Program Coordinator) 
Amy Shadden (Intern) 

Practitioners and Thought Partners: 
Mischa Bauermeister ’13 
Andrew Celli (Emery, Celli, Brinkerhoff and Abady) 
Prof. Scott Cummings ’96 (UCLA School of Law) 
Kalpana Kotagal (Cohen Milstein) 
Brent Landau ’01 (Hausfeld LLP) 
Morris Ratner ’91 (formerly Lieff Cabraser) 
John Relman (Relman, Dane & Colfax) 
Stephen Rosenthal ’96 (Podhurst Orseck, P.A.) 
Jahan Sagafi ’01 (Outten & Golden)  
Anand Swaminathan ’06 (Loevy & Loevy)