civil rights lawyer
Discrimination case counsel
A civil rights lawyer is an attorney who specializes in cases involving constitutional protections and legal equality—discrimination, voting rights, police misconduct, free speech.
The term often implies advocacy work rather than corporate practice: She became a civil rights lawyer after watching her father get stopped by police for no reason.
- advocatePublic cause supporter
- justiceFair treatment under law
- courtroomJudicial proceedings chamber
- ACLUAdvocacy group for constitutional protections
- discriminationUnjust differential treatment
equality · activism · segregation · landmark · plaintiff · constitutional · equal protection · freedom · defendant · class action · injustice · litigation · legal brief · protest · sit in · freedom rider · testimony · precedent
- lawyersattorney, defense attorney, defense counsel, counselor, public defender
- legal professionalsattorney, barrister, solicitor, counsel, judge
- Women in LawRuth Bader Ginsburg, Sandra Day O'Connor, Sonia Sotomayor, Ketanji Brown Jackson, patent attorney
- advocatesadvocate, activist, campaigner, crusader, defender
- representativesrepresentative, delegate, deputy, rep, proxy
- legal servicesattorney, law firm, legal advice, legal counsel, counsel
civil rights lawyercorporate attorney
Lawyer for companies
corporate lawyer · corporate counsel · tax attorney · real estate lawyer · patent lawyer
civil, civility, civilian, civilize, civilized, civilization, civics, right, rights