Alisa Tiwari

Alisa Tiwari is an associate in Cohen Milstein’s Civil Rights & Employment practice. Alisa represents individuals in class action litigation challenging discrimination in employment and housing.

Prior to joining Cohen Milstein, Alisa was an associate at a nationally renowned plaintiffs-side firm that specializes in Supreme Court and appellate law. There, Alisa represented clients before federal and state appellate courts on a range of legal issues, such as police misconduct, administrative law, and forced arbitration. She served as lead counsel in multiple cases and argued appeals in the Seventh Circuit and the Second Circuit. In the U.S. Supreme Court, Alisa drafted both petition- and merits-stage briefs, including an amicus brief and two successful briefs in opposition.

Before entering private practice, Alisa clerked for the Honorable Michelle Friedland of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Before that, she clerked for the Honorable Vince Chhabria of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.

Alisa also has the distinction of being named a Princeton Scholar in the Nation’s Service Initiative (SINSI) Fellow. In this role, she earned a Master in Public Affairs and worked at the U.S. Department of Justice in the Civil Rights Division, where she received the Assistant Attorney General’s Distinguished Service Award and a Certificate of Commendation.

Publications

• Disparate-Impact Liability for Policing, 129 YALE L.J. 252 (2019)
• Finality, Guidance Documents, and San Francisco’s Challenge to a Guidance Repeal, 36 YALE J. ON REG.: NOTICE & COMMENT (May 21, 2018) (with Ryan Yeh and Christine Kwon)
• Protests, Policing, and Crime: An Analysis of Evidence Regarding the Ferguson Effect, 27 J. PUB. & INT’L AFF. 115 (2016)