Civil rights law covers legal protections against unfair treatment and the protection of basic freedoms. Matters often involve discrimination in areas such as employment, housing, education, and public services, as well as concerns about police conduct, voting access, disability access, and the rights of people in government custody. Cases may be brought under federal, state, or local law, and some begin with an administrative complaint to a government agency before any court filing.
Organizations listing this practice area in the directory include private law firms, nonprofit legal service providers, advocacy groups, and some university legal clinics. When choosing counsel, ask whether the attorney has handled matters similar to yours, how fees are structured, and what deadlines may apply to your situation. You can also confirm that an attorney is registered and in good standing through the New York Attorney Search before hiring.
Firms and organizations listing Civil Rights
Listed because each organization describes this area on its own website. This is not a referral, a ranking or a certification of any attorney's specialty. Ordered by the number of attorneys in the New York registry who list the organization.
Latham & Watkins LLP 898 attorneys Office of the New York State Attorney General 650 attorneys Brooklyn Legal Services 335 attorneys Brooklyn Defender Services 313 attorneys The Bronx Defenders 228 attorneys Mental Hygiene Legal Service 123 attorneys Mobilization for Justice, Inc. 94 attorneys Office of the New York Attorney General 88 attorneys Littler Mendelson P.C. 84 attorneys Heidell, Pittoni, Murphy & Bach, LLP 84 attorneys Kaufman Dolowich LLP 82 attorneys The Legal Aid Bureau of Buffalo, Inc. 81 attorneys American Civil Liberties Union 80 attorneys Brooklyn Law School 76 attorneys Morris Duffy Alonso Faley & Pitcoff 74 attorneys New York University School of Law 73 attorneys Legal Assistance of Western New York, Inc. (LawNY) 70 attorneys Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings (OATH) 68 attorneys Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP 66 attorneys Rupp Pfalzgraf LLC 65 attorneys United States District Court for the Southern District of New York 61 attorneys Hurwitz Fine P.C. 61 attorneys Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP 59 attorneys Belkin · Burden · Goldman, LLP 58 attorneys London Fischer LLP 56 attorneys New York State Division of Human Rights 55 attorneys Shaub, Ahmuty, Citrin & Spratt, LLP 53 attorneys U.S. Department of Justice 50 attorneys Ahmuty Demers & McManus LLP 49 attorneys NYC Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings (OATH) 45 attorneys Morgan & Morgan 42 attorneys Neighborhood Legal Services, Inc. 41 attorneys United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York 41 attorneys Elefterakis, Elefterakis & Panek 40 attorneys Smith Mazure, P.C. 40 attorneys New York City Law Department (Office of the Corporation Counsel) 40 attorneys Build Up Justice NYC 40 attorneys The City University of New York School of Law (CUNY School of Law, also styled CUNY Law) 38 attorneys Outten & Golden LLP 38 attorneys New York University School of Law (NYU Law) 37 attorneys Guercio & Guercio, LLP 37 attorneys Legal Services of Central New York, Inc. 36 attorneys Emery Celli Brinckerhoff Abady Ward & Maazel LLP 35 attorneys Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. 35 attorneys Urban Justice Center 35 attorneys New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) 33 attorneys Liakas Law, P.C. 33 attorneys Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP 32 attorneys Keane & Beane, P.C. 32 attorneys Earthjustice 31 attorneys NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. 29 attorneys Empire Justice Center 29 attorneys Kiernan Trebach LLP 28 attorneys Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law 28 attorneys New York City Police Department (NYPD) 27 attorneys Center for Reproductive Rights 27 attorneys Finkelstein & Partners, LLP 27 attorneys Barry McTiernan & Moore LLC 27 attorneys U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York 26 attorneys Goldberg, Miller & Rubin 25 attorneys Make the Road New York 24 attorneys Landman Corsi Ballaine & Ford P.C. 24 attorneys Advocates for Children of New York, Inc. 23 attorneys Sugarman Law Firm, LLP 23 attorneys Shulman & Hill, PLLC 23 attorneys Prisoners' Legal Services of New York 23 attorneys Disability Rights New York 22 attorneys Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll LLP 22 attorneys Traub Lieberman Straus & Shrewsberry LLP 22 attorneys Tiveron Law PLLC 22 attorneys Grant & Eisenhofer P.A. 22 attorneys Bartlett LLP 22 attorneys Clifton Budd & DeMaria, LLP 22 attorneys NYS Justice Center for the Protection of People with Special Needs 21 attorneys BraunHagey & Borden LLP 21 attorneys DiCello Levitt 21 attorneys American Civil Liberties Union Foundation 21 attorneys Milberg, PLLC 21 attorneys Cascone & Kluepfel, LLP 20 attorneys Farber Brocks & Zane L.L.P. 20 attorneys New York City Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings (OATH) 20 attorneys McCabe, Collins, McGeough, Fowler, Levine & Nogan LLP 20 attorneys New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, Inc. (NYLPI) 20 attorneys Levy Ratner, P.C. 20 attorneys Peirce & Salvato PLLC 20 attorneys Gleason, Dunn, Walsh & O'Shea 19 attorneys Dell & Dean, PLLC 19 attorneys Office of the Nassau County Attorney 19 attorneys Sokoloff Stern LLP 18 attorneys FitzGerald Morris Baker Firth, P.C. 18 attorneys Krez & Flores, LLP 17 attorneys Children's Rights, Inc. 17 attorneys Amabile & Erman, P.C. 17 attorneys Wigdor LLP 17 attorneys New York City Commission on Human Rights 17 attorneys Walden Haran Williams LLP 16 attorneys Kaplan Martin LLP 16 attorneys Black Marjieh & Sanford LLP 16 attorneys Merson Law PLLC 16 attorneys Beldock Levine & Hoffman LLP 16 attorneys Sanford Heisler Sharp McKnight, LLP 16 attorneys Napoli Shkolnik PLLC 16 attorneys Hacker Murphy LLP 16 attorneys Walden Macht Haran & Williams LLP 15 attorneys Center for Constitutional Rights 15 attorneys Schiavetti, Corgan, DiEdwards, Weinberg & Nicholson, LLP 15 attorneys Federal Bureau of Investigation 15 attorneys Ballon Stoll P.C. 14 attorneys Gladstein, Reif & Meginniss, LLP 14 attorneys Harris, Keenan & Goldfarb PLLC 14 attorneys Eisenberg & Baum, LLP 14 attorneys NYC Commission on Human Rights 14 attorneys Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University 14 attorneys Horn Wright, LLP 14 attorneys Devitt Spellman Barrett, LLP 14 attorneys Cooper Erving & Savage LLP 14 attorneys Miranda Slone Sklarin Verveniotis, LLP 13 attorneys Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University 13 attorneys Nesenoff & Miltenberg LLP 13 attorneys Vladeck, Raskin & Clark PC 13 attorneys The Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Firm, LLP 13 attorneys U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission 13 attorneys Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) 13 attorneys Department of Education of the City of New York 13 attorneys Human Rights Watch 13 attorneys United States Attorney's Office for the Western District of New York 13 attorneys Western New York Law Center (WNYLC), Inc. 13 attorneys New York State Homes and Community Renewal 13 attorneys Bartlett, Pontiff, Stewart & Rhodes, P.C. 12 attorneys U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development 12 attorneys Communities Resist, Inc. (CoRe) 12 attorneys Montgomery McCracken Walker & Rhoads LLP 12 attorneys Barket Epstein Kearon Aldea & LoTurco, LLP 12 attorneys The City University of New York School of Law 12 attorneys Gair, Gair, Conason, Rubinowitz, Bloom, Hershenhorn, Steigman & Mackauf 12 attorneys Gallardo, Levin, Reiter & Rogers, LLP 12 attorneys Legal Action Center 11 attorneys Reichman Jorgensen Lehman & Feldberg LLP 11 attorneys Newman Ferrara LLP 11 attorneys New York State Justice Center for the Protection of People with Special Needs 11 attorneys Human Rights First 11 attorneys Neufeld Scheck Brustin Hoffmann & Freudenberger, LLP 11 attorneys Pregnancy Justice 10 attorneys LatinoJustice PRLDEF 10 attorneys Mahon, Rider, McKay, Bauer & Furst, PLLC 10 attorneys Filippatos PLLC 10 attorneys Justice Center for the Protection of People With Special Needs 10 attorneys The Towne Law Firm, P.C. 10 attorneys RLGC Law Group, PLLC 10 attorneys Lachtman Cohen & Belowich LLP 10 attorneys Leeds Brown Law, P.C. 10 attorneys Finkelstein, Blankinship, Frei-Pearson & Garber, LLP 10 attorneys Kelner & Kelner Esqs 10 attorneys Berkman, Henoch, Peterson & Peddy, P.C. 10 attorneys Schwab & Gasparini PLLC 9 attorneys Brithem LLP 9 attorneys Morgan Legal Group, P.C. 9 attorneys Jeff Anderson & Associates 9 attorneys Bennett, Bricklin & Saltzburg LLC 9 attorneys Siri & Glimstad LLP 9 attorneys Volunteer Lawyers Project of CNY, Inc. 9 attorneys Rutherford & Christie LLP 9 attorneys Rubenstein & Rynecki 9 attorneys The Law Office of Elisa Hyman, P.C. 9 attorneys Wang Hecker LLP 9 attorneys Morelli Law Firm, PLLC 9 attorneys United States Attorney's Office, Northern District of New York 8 attorneys Feerick Nugent MacCartney, PLLC 8 attorneys Civil Service Employees Association, Inc. 8 attorneys Olinsky Law Group 8 attorneys Golden Rothschild Spagnola Lundell Boylan Garubo & Bell P.C. 8 attorneys Brewer, Attorneys & Counselors 8 attorneys Rosenblum Bianco & Byrne, LLP 8 attorneys Law Offices of Robert Tsigler, PLLC 8 attorneys Joseph & Norinsberg LLC 8 attorneys Derek Smith Law Group, PLLC 8 attorneys Harfenist Kraut & Perlstein LLP 8 attorneys The Law Offices of Michael S. Lamonsoff, PLLC 8 attorneys Kaufman Lieb Lebowitz & Frick LLP 8 attorneys Hamilton Clarke LLP 8 attorneys Fitapelli & Schaffer, LLP 8 attorneys Volz & Vigliotta, PLLC 7 attorneys Cruser, Mitchell, Novitz, Sanchez, Gaston & Zimet, LLP 7 attorneys City of Albany, New York, Office of the Corporation Counsel (Law Department) 7 attorneys Youth Represent 7 attorneys Conway, Donovan & Manley, PLLC 7 attorneys Subin Associates, LLP 7 attorneys Agnifilo Intrater LLP 7 attorneys Shafer Partners LLP 7 attorneys Marsh Law Firm PLLC 7 attorneys Family Justice Law Center 7 attorneys The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law 7 attorneys Silverman & Associates 7 attorneys Hogan, Rossi & Liguori 7 attorneys National Center for Law and Economic Justice 7 attorneys Wittels McInturff Palikovic 7 attorneys Valli Kane & Vagnini LLP 7 attorneys Lee Litigation Group, PLLC 7 attorneys Farber Balsam Papain Ferrari LLP 7 attorneys Central American Legal Assistance (CALA) 7 attorneys Ronemus & Vilensky LLP 7 attorneys Lambda Legal 6 attorneys Law Office of Michelle Siegel 6 attorneys Pappas, Cox, Kimpel, Dodd & Levine, P.C. 6 attorneys Bantle & Levy LLP 6 attorneys A Better Childhood 6 attorneys The Law Office of Lindy Korn PLLC 6 attorneys Anti-Defamation League 6 attorneys United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of New York 6 attorneys Saretsky Katz Dranoff Weissman & Maynard, LLP 6 attorneys Bloch & White LLP 6 attorneys Held & Hines LLP 6 attorneys Lieb at Law, P.C. 6 attorneys Hodges Walsh & Burke, LLP 6 attorneys JOEY JACKSON LAW, PLLC. 6 attorneys New York City Department of Citywide Administrative Services 6 attorneys Hach Rose Schirripa & Rehns LLP 6 attorneys Mandel Bhandari LLP 6 attorneys Giskan Solotaroff & Anderson LLP 6 attorneys United States Attorney's Office, Western District of New York 6 attorneys Rabinowitz, Boudin, Standard, Krinsky & Lieberman, P.C. 6 attorneys Menken Simpson & Rozger LLP 6 attorneys Stulberg & Walsh, LLP 6 attorneys Goddard Law PLLC 6 attorneys Certain & Zilberg, PLLC 6 attorneys Cartier, Bernstein, Auerbach & Steinberg, P.C. 6 attorneys Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) 5 attorneys Greenberg & Stein, P.C. 5 attorneys Cook, Kurtz & Murphy, P.C. 5 attorneys Wilkofsky, Friedman, Karel & Cummins 5 attorneys Law Office of Cohen & Jaffe, LLP 5 attorneys Zwerling, Schachter & Zwerling LLP 5 attorneys Mizrahi Kroub LLP 5 attorneys Lebedin Kofman LLP 5 attorneys White, Rose, & Hilferty 5 attorneys Center for Community Alternatives, Inc. 5 attorneys MASONE, WHITE, PENKAVA & CRISTOFARI ATTORNEYS AT LAW 5 attorneys Muchmore & Associates PLLC 5 attorneys Free + Fair Litigation Group 5 attorneys Arshack, Hajek & Lehrman, PLLC 5 attorneys Ansanelli Law Group, LLP 5 attorneys Long Island Advocacy Center, Inc. 5 attorneys Methfessel & Werbel 5 attorneys Klafter Lesser LLP 5 attorneys The Perecman Firm, P.L.L.C. 5 attorneys Cyrus R. Vance Center for International Justice 5 attorneys Barger & Gaines 5 attorneys Long Island Housing Services, Inc. 5 attorneys Law Department, City of Syracuse (Office of Corporation Counsel) 5 attorneys The Khwaja Omer Law Offices, PLLC (also presented as TKO Law Offices) 5 attorneys Easton Thompson Kasperek Shiffrin, LLP 5 attorneys Rothman, Schneider, Soloway & Stern, LLP 5 attorneys New York City Law Department 5 attorneys Davis Ndanusa Ikhlas & Saleem LLP 5 attorneys Mirman, Markovits & Landau, P.C. 5 attorneys Perillo Hill LLP 4 attorneys Vaughan McLean 4 attorneys Pianko Law Group, PLLC 4 attorneys U.S. Department of Education 4 attorneys Open Society Justice Initiative 4 attorneys Ritz Clark & Ben-Asher LLP 3 attorneys The Landau Group, PC 2 attorneys Anti-Discrimination Center, Inc. 2 attorneys Weissman & Mintz LLC 2 attorneysBefore you hire
Ask any firm about its experience with matters like yours, how fees are charged and who will work on your case. Confirm the registration status of the individual attorney through the official New York Attorney Search, and see how to choose the right lawyer in New York.