civil rights attorney
Discrimination case counsel
A civil rights attorney is a lawyer who specializes in cases involving constitutional rights and protections against discrimination.
They handle matters like police misconduct, voting rights, employment discrimination, and violations of due process.
The family hired a civil rights attorney after their son was wrongfully arrested.
The term often implies advocacy work rather than purely corporate practice.
- justiceFair treatment under law
- equal protectionUniform legal treatment
- advocacyPleading for a cause
- ACLUAdvocacy group for constitutional protections
- courtroomJudicial proceedings chamber
legal brief · discrimination · Jim Crow · equality · lawsuit · segregation · protest · landmark · Thurgood Marshall · Supreme Court · desegregation · Brown v Board · defendant · constitutional · injustice · litigation · pro bono · precedent
- lawyerslawyer, defense counsel, counselor, public defender, prosecutor
- Legal Careerslawyer, paralegal, solicitor, barrister, counsel
- Government Lawyerspublic prosecutor, prosecutor, solicitor general, federal prosecutor, assistant DA
- legal serviceslawyer, law firm, legal advice, criminal lawyer, legal counsel
civil rights attorneyprosecutor
Government's trial lawyer
district attorney · state's attorney · city attorney · attorney general · solicitor general
civil, civility, civilian, civilize, civilized, civilization, civics, right, rights