Top best Civil Rights Lawyers in MEMPHIS near me

Practicing law since 1993, Howard Manis is the Managing Partner at The Cochran Firm Mid-South bringing with him over twenty five years of litigation experience in courtrooms throughout the south. Mr. Manis serves as a member of the Criminal Justice Act Panel in the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee for the past two decades. Howard Manis is licensed to practice law in Tennessee, Arkansas & Mississippi and has a significant federal court practice handling both civil and criminal matters.. During his over two decades of practice, Mr. Manis has handled his fair share of high profile matters. These matters include a high school student who was discriminated against due to his sexual orientation, a local cotton gin employee who faced racial discrimination, the family of a man gunned down by a business owner for shoplifting, hundreds of families in the Galilee Cemetery tragedy, children on the Chattanooga bus accident, numerous citizens and families whose civil rights were violated by police misconduct a hundreds of others in need of a dedicated justice fighter. Howard Manis does not back away from a fight and always puts his clients first.. Born and raised in Memphis, TN, Mr. Manis is a graduate of Germantown High School. After graduating from the University of Georgia in 1989 with a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Risk Management and Estate Planning, he went on to earn his Juris Doctor (J.D.) at the University of Memphis.

Melissa Maravich has a diverse litigation practice and has appeared before state, federal and appellate courts in numerous jurisdictions. Her practice primarily focuses on commercial & business litigation, insurance defense and coverage, catastrophic claims and transportation cases.. Ms. Maravich is currently the managing member for the firm’s largest insurance company client and handles general commercial liability, catastrophic claims, complex commercial litigation and coverage issues on behalf of insurance companies and corporations. Ms. Maravich also represents corporations and municipalities in employment, property/zoning matters, and large commercial lease disputes. She has experience in mass tort, class action and multidistrict litigation matters. Ms. Maravich participates in various national transportation and insurance defense practice groups and defends corporations in wrongful death and property damage cases.. Ms. Maravich has been a Tennessee Supreme Court Rule 31 Mediator since 2002 and served as a voluntary mediator for Shelby County Criminal Court Pretrial Services for several years. Ms. Maravich regularly speaks at seminars regarding trial practice and the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. She is a Memphis Bar Foundation Fellow and has served on the Board of Directors for Girls, Inc. of Memphis, the YMCA of Memphis and the Mid-South, and the Community Legal Center. Ms. Maravich served as Chair of the Fee Dispute Committee of the Memphis Bar Association for several years.

Injury lawyer representing victims of negligence and misconduct for over 25 years.  Licened in Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi.  Specializing in car wrecks, trucking litigation, worker's compensation, employment law and police misconduct.

Brice Timmons divides his practice primarily between the areas of Civil Rights and Education Law.. Mr. Timmons represents plaintiffs in numerous types of civil rights suits against jails, prisons, police, and private prison contractors. Mr. Timmons has obtained substantial settlements for clients due to false arrest, false imprisonment, and poor medical care while incarcerated. He is especially interested in cases involving so-called “mistaken-identity” arrests and refusing to provide medical care to inmates. He has represented clients in other types of cases brought under the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments and 42 U.S.C. Section 1983 of the Civil Rights Act.. Mr. Timmons represents children in suits for civil rights violations arising under the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, and other civil rights statutes. In addition, he has represented both adults and minors with mental and emotional disabilities against their caregivers. While children are a vulnerable population, disabled children outside of their parents’ care are especially vulnerable to civil rights violations, malpractice, and neglect and abuse. Mr. Timmons has represented such children in unique and extreme cases including suits involving group homes, intermediate care facilities, schools, and so-called “troubled teen industry” facilities.. He is one of only a handful of attorneys to have obtained injunctive relief barring the expulsion of a college student accused of sexual misconduct under Title IX, successfully arguing that the school denied the student due process. Mr. Timmons represents students and advises families in addressing all manner of student discipline cases including sexual misconduct. He also represents students who are survivors of sexual assault and harassment as well as other forms of discrimination in suits against K-12 schools, colleges, and universities.. Mr. Timmons received a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Memphis. He earned his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Memphis, Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law. Mr. Timmons has served as a member of the Graduate Faculty of the Department of Political Science at the University of Memphis. He is a member of the Memphis Bar Association, Tennessee Bar Association, and American Bar Association. He currently serves as the chair of the Shelby County Veterans Court Foundation – an organization devoted to giving veterans a path out of the criminal justice system and a second chance.. Mr. Timmons served in the 173rd Airborne Brigade of the United States Army. He focuses his pro bono practice on helping survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault as well as on jail and prison conditions reform.

Attorney Charles Blatteis practices law in Memphis, Tennessee at the Blatteis Law Firm, PLLC.  Attorney Blatteis provides legal services to both U.S. individuals and entities doing business and investing in the United States and abroad through corporate and transactional legal work.  He also assists foreign nationals and immigrants with their litigation matters in the United States. Mr. Blatteis also serves officially as a “Consulting Attorney” for the Consulate General of Mexico in Little Rock as well as for the Consulate General of Peru in Atlanta.  Attorney Blatteis is peer review rated “AV Preeminent,” the highest rating by Martindale Hubbell attorney ratings.. A first generation U. S. Citizen of Hispanic and German descent, Charles Blatteis is bilingual in English and Spanish at the legal professional level and speaks French at the conversational level.   Charles Blatteis graduated from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service with a BSFS in International Law, Politics and Organization and a Certificate in Latin American Studies.  He obtained his J.D. in Common Law from Tulane Law School along with a Certificate in European Legal Studies.  Over the years, Mr. Blatteis has held various positions in international business and/or law with employers as diverse as International Paper Company in their Memphis headquarters and Baker and McKenzie (the world’s largest international law firm) in their Chicago headquarters.  He has also worked as a partner in Memphis at the Bogatin Law Firm and most recently at the Burch Porter & Johnson, before establishing his own firm.  Attorney Blatteis has also been awarded a United States patent as a co-inventor of an ecologically friendly manufacturing process, which has subsequently been patented in various countries worldwide.. Attorney Blatteis is active in Memphis area civic affairs.  A representative sample of such public service involvement includes current or prior service on the following Boards of Directors:  the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Memphis Branch (for which he served for seven years as a Director and was Chairman of the Board for three years);  the Board of the Memphis Regional Chamber of Commerce (for six years as a director and also for four years as the Chairman of the Chamber’s International Business Council);  Leadership Memphis, Inc. (for three years as a member of the Board of Directors); the United Way of the Mid-South (for six years as a member of the Board of Directors); the Pink Palace Family of Museums (currently, a Trustee on the Board of Trustees); and the Friends of the Levitt Pavilion Memphis, Inc. (for six years as a Director).  Mr. Blatteis also serves or has served as a Director, Chairman, or President for the Boards of Directors of various Hispanic Chambers of Commerce in Memphis:  the Mid-South Latino Chamber of Commerce, the National Hispanic Professionals’ Organization (Memphis Chapter); and the Hispanic Business Alliance, Inc.