Zoila Hinson is a Partner at Relman Colfax. She joined the firm in 2021. In her civil rights litigation practice, she works on a variety of cases involving housing discrimination, fair lending, redlining, reverse redlining, and consumer protection. Zoila has played a key role in numerous civil rights cases, including achieving a ground-breaking settlement on behalf of members of the Black, Gullah Geechee community on Sapelo Island, Georgia in Drayton et al. v. McIntosh County. In 2024, she was part of a team that achieved one of the largest private redlining settlements to date. Currently, Zoila represents the Delaware Human and Civil Rights Commission in a case alleging a Delaware-based home builder terminated a purchasing agreement on the basis of the purchaser’s religion and national origin. She also represents the Equal Rights Center in litigation advancing an innovative theory that a housing provider’s violation of the D.C. Human Rights Act violates D.C.’s consumer protection laws. In partnership with the National Fair Housing Alliance and Asian Americans Advancing Justice, she represents the plaintiffs in National Fair Housing Alliance et al. v. Kelly, a challenge to a Florida law that restricts the ability of people from China and six other targeted countries to purchase homes in the state.