Alaizah Koorji
Alaizah Koorji is an experienced civil rights attorney whose practice focuses on wrongful conviction and police misconduct.
Prior to joining NSBHF, Alaizah served as Senior Counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, where she litigated high-stakes civil rights cases across the nation. As part of LDF’s political participation work, Alaizah led challenges to sweeping voter suppression laws and illegal vote dilution. She also advocated for criminal justice reform, challenging qualified immunity, suspicion-less stops, and racial bias in algorithmic policing.
Previously, Alaizah was a public defender at Brooklyn Defender Services, serving in both the immigration defense and criminal defense practices. As part of the New York Family Unity Project (“NYIFUP”), she represented detained non-citizens facing deportation before immigration courts, the Board of Immigration Appeals, and in federal court. She later joined the criminal practice, representing hundreds of clients charged with a range of misdemeanors and felonies in state criminal court. Earlier in her career, Alaizah worked as a litigation associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP and Cooley LLP, where she represented corporate and individual clients in complex civil litigation, investigations, and regulatory enforcement actions.
Education:
- Harvard Law School, J.D., 2014
- University of California Los Angeles, B.A., 2011, International Development and Public Health
Admissions:
- U.S. Supreme Court
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third, Fifth, and Eleventh Circuits
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York