Our runners up for Litigator of the Week include a pro bono team from Latham & Watkins starring associates Corey Calabrese and Russ Mangas, along with partners Claudia Salomon and Andy Clubok. They prevailed in a six-week voting rights bench trial in the Southern District of New York before U.S. District Judge Cathy Seibel that began on Feb. 10 and concluded via Zoom on March 24.
The Latham team and the New York Civil Liberties Union in NAACP v. East Ramapo Central School District successfully challenged an at-large method of electing school board members, claiming that it unlawfully denies black and Latino citizens in the district an equal opportunity to elect candidates of their choice.
