Ali Frick is an experienced and passionate civil rights and commercial litigator who has helped secure millions of dollars for individuals and businesses in a wide range of matters. In state and federal court, Ali has represented people who have been falsely arrested, sexually harassed, subjected to excessive force by police and corrections officers, discriminated against in housing and employment, and victimized by state employees of group homes for the disabled, among other clients. She has worked with companies and executives to fight against unscrupulous business partners and unfair judgments. She has also represented plaintiffs in multi-million-dollar personal injury and wrongful death matters. In 2021, the New York Law Journal named Ali one of 27 “Rising Stars”, awards which “recognize the region’s most promising lawyers 40 and younger.”

Before helping to found KLLF, Ali gained invaluable training during her six-plus years at Emery Celli Brinckerhoff & Abady LLP, one of New York City’s premier litigation boutiques. Before that, she clerked for Judge Anita B. Brody in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. She also worked for the Domestic Policy Council at the White House, the Capital Habeas Unit of the Federal Community Defender Office of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, and NPR Legal Affairs Correspondent Nina Totenberg.

When not working or chasing after her two young children, Ali enjoys debating politics, cataloguing each book she reads, and daydreaming about her home state of Colorado.

Representative cases

Ali’s work includes:

• Securing an historic class action settlement for George Floyd protestors subjected to excessive force by the New York City Police Department.

• Winning certification of three classes of immigrant detainees who were forced to perform work at a privately-run detention center, and defeating the security company’s motion for summary judgment.

• Representing the Fair Housing Justice Center in a variety of cases, including against a landlord and realtor for discriminating against tenants using housing vouchers and a developer for designing and constructing inaccessible apartments.

• Representing a putative class of women who were sexually abused by a doctor in Brooklyn over the course of years, and another putative class of detained non-citizens forced to work at their detention facility for $1 per day.

• Representing a woman who was brutally beaten in a planned assault by corrections officers at a New Jersey prison.

• Representing a class of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people suing New York’s Department of Corrections over its policy barring people with mental health disabilities from an early-release program. Caballero v. New York Department of Corrections, No. 20 Civ. 1470 (N.D.N.Y.).

• Represented two brothers who were wrongfully convicted and spent a collective 18 years in prison for a murder they did not commit.

• Represented a developmentally delayed woman who suffered neglect and harassment at her Westchester group home.

• Sued a New Jersey school district and administrators over a teacher’s in-class racist rant.

• Representing multiple employees in negotiating severance packages from their employers.

• Winning a motion to dismiss on behalf of a company that was sued over a contract dispute.