Shakeer Rahman

In thier own words

Shakeer Rahman is a civil rights attorney in Los Angeles. Shakeer has been in-house counsel for the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition since January 2021. He previously worked as Senior Staff Attorney at The Bail Project and as an Impact Litigation Attorney at The Bronx Defenders, where he was a Skadden Fellow. Before that, Shakeer was a law clerk to Justice Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar on the Supreme Court of California and to Judge Beverly Martin on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Shakeer is licensed to practice in California and New York. He has a J.D. from Harvard Law School, where he was a Harvard Law Review editor, and a B.A. in history from Columbia University, where he won the Taraknath Das Foundation Award. Shakeer is also a lecturer at UCLA School of Law, where he co-teaches a clinic on community lawyering and public records research, and he has been recognized as a “Rising Star” in civil rights law by Super Lawyers magazine.