An injured survivor from last year's "sniper-style" shooting near Edmund Burke School is filing a lawsuit against several gun and gun accessory companies for $75 million, alleging their marketing and sales efforts helped lead to the mass attack.

A Maryland woman who suffered gunshot wounds in a sniper attack last year outside a D.C. school filed a lawsuit over the weekend against several gun manufacturers, alleging that their marketing practices glorify violence and contribute to an epidemic of mass shootings.

A federal judge has cleared the way for hundreds of prisoners in Virginia to join a suit against the state over a practice that international guidelines consider torture – holding inmates in solitary confinement for more than 15 days. Attorney Katie Ali joins two other D.C. law firms and the ACLU of Virginia in fighting the practice that has been shown to cause symptoms of mental illness.

Law360 reports on the rise of mission-driven firms, including Ali & Lockwood LLP. “It was really mission-driven from the start,” Liz Lockwood said of Ali & Lockwood LLP. “It’s not like we said, ‘Hey, wouldn’t it be great to just practice on our own?’ It was really, how can we create the space to do this work? And so that is what led us to taking the leap.”

Ali & Lockwood LLP partnered with the ACLU’s Capital Punishment Project, the ACLU of Kansas and Hogan Lovells to challenge the Kansas death penalty as ineffective, racially discriminatory and unconstitutional during a multi-day hearing in Wichita.

Public Justice’s 2022 Trial Lawyer of the Year award was awarded to Liz Lockwood and her co-counsel, who took on a landmark case that exposed an egregious incident of police corruption and abuse in North Carolina.

Two former Hogan Lovells attorneys have taken their years of experience at one of the nation's largest law firms and funneled them into a new boutique focused largely on tackling civil rights issues along with a small commercial litigation caseload.

A partner and senior associate from Hogan Lovells have launched a boutique practice in Washington, D.C., focused on civil rights law, to take on police misconduct, wrongful conviction and other litigation.

Katie Ali and Liz Lockwood have launched their firm, Ali & Lockwood LLP, which along with tackling civil rights litigation will also handle some complex commercial litigation.