Ayesha Khan

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Civil Rights Litigator & Appellate Attorney

Experience: 33 years

Appeals & Appellate, Civil Rights and Employment Law

District of Columbia, Maryland, 1st Circuit and 13 others

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Ayesha N. Khan has extensive civil rights and appellate experience, having formerly served as a Deputy Chief in the Appellate Section of the Civil Rights Division in the U.S. Department of Justice and as the Legal Director of a national civil rights organization. She has represented clients before the United States Supreme Court, every federal circuit, and state appellate courts throughout the country. She has also litigated extensively at the trial level in federal and state courts nationwide. Her clients have ranged from private individuals to commercial entities, local school districts to municipalities, and state governments to the United States.

She concentrates her practice on two areas. She is an appellate generalist who represents individual and corporate clients throughout the country in matters involving a virtually unlimited array of subject areas, including business disputes, constitutional questions, civil rights issues, and family law. She also represents individual plaintiffs in trial-level civil rights cases involving, among other things, sexual harassment, racial profiling, and LGBTQ issues. She is an aggressive, thorough, and compassionate advocate for her clients.

Jurisdictions Admitted to Practice

District of Columbia

District of Columbia Bar
Since 1991

Maryland

Since 2015

1st Circuit

Since 2012

2nd Circuit

Since 2010

3rd Circuit

Since 2002

4th Circuit

Since 1999

5th Circuit

Since 1996

6th Circuit

Since 2000

7th Circuit

Since 2002

8th Circuit

Since 2016

9th Circuit

Since 1996

10th Circuit

Since 1997

11th Circuit

Since 1993

D.C. Circuit

Since 1999

Federal Circuit

Since 2006

U.S. Supreme Court

Since 1995

Professional Experience

2016 - Current

Potomac Law Group

Partner, Litigation and Appellate Practice

2015 - 2016

U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Appellate Section

Deputy Chief

1998 - 2015

Americans United for Separation of Church and State

Legal Director

1993 - 1998

ACLU National Prison Project

Staff Counsel

1991 - 1993

Covington & Burling

Associate

Education

1986 - 1989

University of California - Berkeley

J.D. (1989)

Honors: Order of the Coif (rank: top 5% of class); Women in the Public Interest Scholarship

1980 - 1984

University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

B.A. | Philosophy

Honors: Degree Awarded with Highest Distinction, Rank: Top 3%; James B. Angell Scholar; University Honors 1984

Contacts

Rock Creek Law, LLC 5309 Burling Terrace Bethesda MD 20814 Toll-Free: (301) 246-0346

Potomac Law Group, PLLC 1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Ste. 700 Washington DC 20004 Telephone: (202) 836-7136 Fax: (202) 318-7707

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Ayesha Khan Civil Rights Litigator & Appellate Attorney

Experience: 33 years

Website: Open

Phone: (301) 246-0346

Location: USA

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Practice Areas

Appeals & Appellate

Civil Appeals, Federal Appeals

Civil Rights

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Discrimination, Employment, Fair Housing, Police Misconduct, Privacy Law

Employment Law

Employee Benefits, Employment Contracts, Employment Discrimination, ERISA, Overtime & Unpaid Wages, Sexual Harassment, Whistleblower, Wrongful Termination

Languages

English: Spoken, Written

Websites

Partner, Potomac Law Group

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