Law school often projects a one-dimensiona l image of a successful lawyer as that of a rain-maker\, federal courts lit igator\, or trial attorney. Understanding other ways excellence might look like in a day-to-day public interest career might be less talked about and harder to imagine. Join Wasserstein Fellow Maha Ibrahim as she shares some insights and anecdotes from her decade of experience as a civil rights lawy er and discusses some exciting ways an early-career attorney can develop an impactful skillset in conjunction with (or instead of!) just litigation.
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Maha Ibrahim is a Managing Attorney at Equal Rights Advocat es in San Francisco\, California. An attorney at ERA since 2016\, Maha came to ERA with seven years of federal and state policy experience as a Congre ssional and California State Legislative professional. At ERA\, Maha was pa rt of the ERA legal representation that negotiated a $1 million + settlemen t for women working in non-traditional fields (tradeswomen). Maha’s represe ntation of education civil rights clients has contributed to over $2 millio n in settlements in Title IX matters for sexual assault and harassment surv ivors at the K-12 and higher education levels\, as well as far-reaching\, m ulti-year programmatic monitoring and policy reform\, the implementation of which Maha oversees. Maha is a lead author of ERA’s school and education d istrict\, campus and state policy models\, including several large urban sc hool district policies and administrative regulations\, university board po licies and Complaint investigation and resolution regulations\, and Califor nia’s landmark SB 493. Devoted to the next generation of civil rights attor neys\, Maha oversees and manages Equal Rights Advocates’ national law clerk program and has created a model program using the pivot to more advanced r emote work systems during the COVID-19 era as an opportunity to expand acce ss and the quality and intensity of experiential legal learning. Dedicated to experiential legal education and mentorship in a profession rooted in ap prenticeship\, Maha transformed Equal Rights Advocates’ Law Clerk program o ver a management period of 7 years\, and now co-teaches an externship semin ar at Berkeley Law. Maha is a graduate of UC Berkeley (undergraduate) and U CLA School of Law. She is a product of the opportunities afforded to first generation students through California’s Community College System\, and was named 2022 Alumni of the Year of her alma mater (2002)\, Riverside Communi ty College System.
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