Ryan, a former attorney in the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, is speaking out about her rule of law concerns, ...

Civil Rights attorney Jerry Girley places a brown-and-white print tie around his client’s neck. With each wrap, steady pinch and adjustment of the Windsor knot, the lawyer’s steadfast ...

Civil rights attorney L. Chris Stewart was sitting in church in Atlanta on an April Sunday in 2015 when he received a Facebook message with a news article and a plea from a friend. A police ...

Kiah Duggins, a Washington civil-rights attorney, had returned to Wichita, Kan., where she attended high school and college, before boarding the ill-fated American Airlines plane that crashed.

F or decades, a myth about civil-rights lawyers has been spread by court decisions, legislative testimony, and popular culture.Courthouses, the story goes, are filled to the brim with plaintiffs ...

For civil rights lawyers, attorneys' fees paid by the government play a critical role in funding work on behalf of indigent clients and in deterring unlawful conduct by government actors. In April ...

The Justice Department's Civil Rights Division is in upheaval amid a mass exodus of attorneys as the Trump administration moves to radically reshape the division, shelving its traditional mission ...

In most litigation in the United States, each side pays for its own attorney’s fees. But in 1976, Congress enacted the Civil Rights Attorney’s Fees Awards Act, which gives courts in some civil rights ...