
Name
Rebecca Livengood
Organization/Company Affiliation
Relman Colfax PLLC
Position Title
Partner
State/Province/County (Work Address)
DC
Speaker Bio
Rebecca Livengood is a Partner at Relman Colfax. In her civil rights litigation practice, she focuses on challenging racial and disability discrimination in housing, provision of public services, education, prisons, and policing. Rebecca has participated in and played a lead role in numerous complex civil rights cases, including fair housing challenges to exclusionary zoning laws and source of income discrimination; significant and ground-breaking cases vindicating constitutional, educational, and consumer protection rights of incarcerated people; and novel challenges to race discrimination against communities of color in property maintenance and provision of public services. She has authored numerous amicus briefs, including a brief on behalf of dozens of former agency officials whose departments administered Title VI in President and Fellows of Harvard College v. Dep’t of Health and Human Services, et al., and a brief on behalf of Alabama fair housing organizations before the Supreme Court in Merrill v. Milligan, a Voting Rights Act case challenging Alabama’s congressional district map. Prior to joining the firm, Rebecca worked as an attorney at the Equal Justice Initiative and the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey.