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80 South 8th Street, Suite 900, Minneapolis, MN 55402

Area of Practice: Disability Rights

Constitutional Law

134 N LaSalle St, Chicago, IL 60602, USA

Area of Practice: Civil Rights Mr. Neslund is an experienced trial attorney who has won millions of dollars for his clients, including a $5 million dollar settlement in the fatal shooting of Laquan McDonald by Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke and, most recently, a $4.75 million dollar verdict, where an officer shot three siblings at a New Year’s Eve party. Mr. Neslund has extensive jury trial experience in both Federal and State Courts. He practices nationally, and specializes in cases involving police brutality, wrongful death, wrongful convictions, false arrests, as well as catastrophic personal injuries caused by negligence. Mr. Neslund has been widely recognized for his insight and experience in police brutality and related Constitutional issues. Mr. Neslund has appeared on local, national and international television and radio to comment on his own cases and related civil rights issues. Mr. Neslund has appeared on CNN, HLN, MSNBC, the BBC, Chicago’s ABC, NBC, CBS, WGN and FOX news. To see Mr. Neslund’s interviews and commentaries, see our “In the News” section. The settlement in the Laquan McDonald case brought a microscope of national and international attention to the shooting itself as well as the City of Chicago’s Code of Silence in trying to cover up misconduct in police shootings. The United States Department of Justice initiated a federal investigation into the facts and circumstances of the shooting as well as a policy and practice review of the entire Chicago Police Department. Officer Van Dyke was ultimately convicted of second Degree Murder and 16 counts of Aggravated Battery with a Firearm. In addition to his civil work, Mr. Neslund is an accomplished criminal defense attorney. He is a former prosecutor in the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office Gang Crimes Unit where he tried exclusively First Degree Murder cases involving the various street gangs in Chicago. Mr. Neslund has successfully defended hundreds of clients in both State and Federal Courts. Mr. Neslund graduated magna cum laude from Boston College in 1989 and with honors from the University of Florida College of Law in 1992, where he was an editor on the Florida Law Review.

Constitutional Law

7677 Oakport St suite 1120 suite 1120, Oakland, CA 94621, USA

Area of Practice: Civil Rights John L. Burris is an Oakland civil rights attorney specializing in police misconduct. He has represented over a thousand victims of such misconduct over the last 40 plus years including many death cases. His work has resulted in reforms or new policies in the area of canine use, the use of deadly force, the use of hog tying and pepper spray, proper police treatment of the mentally impaired, public strip searching and tasers. In 2003, as co-counsel with Jim Chanin, Attorney Burris settled a class action suit against the Oakland Police Department. During the case, referred to as the “Riders” they represented 119 plaintiffs. Aside from the 11 million settlement, part of the case settlement resulted in a court ordered monitor to facilitate specific reforms concerning racial profiling, use of deadly force, and disparate officer discipline within the Department.

Constitutional Law

99 Park Ave, New York, NY 10016, USA

Jonathan C. Moore became a partner of the firm in 2006. His area of practice is civil rights with a focus on police and governmental misconduct, employment discrimination, First Amendment advocacy and international human rights. He has successfully litigated significant cases both on behalf of individuals and as class counsel in cases involving systemic misconduct in police departments in New York and throughout the country. He practices in both federal and state courts, at both the trial and appellate levels. Educational background: DePaul University College of Law (J.D. 1977), Magna Cum Laude. Admitted: New York, California, Illinois. Practice areas: Civil Rights, International Human Rights, and Employment Law.

Constitutional Law

444 South Flower Street, Suite 1500, Los Angeles, CA 90071

Lilit Vardanian joined Hurrell Cantrall LLP as an associate in 2022. She focuses her practices in civil rights defense, employment disputes, general liability, and products liability matters. Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Vardanian was an associate with an AM100 law firm, where she represented individuals and private entities in a variety of employment and business related disputes in state and federal courts, arbitration, and administrative proceedings. During her professional experience, Ms. Vardanian has assisted in the successful defense of civil, arbitration, and administrative matters throughout all stages of pretrial civil litigation, including pleading disputes, discovery and depositions, law and motion practice, dispute resolution efforts, and trial preparation. MS. Vardanian earned her law degree from Pepperdine University School of Law. While in law school, she also served as the Moot Court Board Chair, Literary Citations & Symposium Editor for the Journal of Business, Entrepreneurship and the Law, and earned several awards throughout her participation with the Moot Court Team. Ms. Vardanian also attended the University of California, San Diego, where she earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science. Ms. Vardanian is admitted to practice in all California State Courts, the United States District Court for the Central District of California, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit