Alisa Philo
202.888.1741 | 2001 K Street NW, Suite 850, Washington, DC 20006
Alisa Philo is Counsel at Gupta Wessler. Alisa joins the firm after almost ten years at the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. Most recently, she was an attorney in the Appellate Section, working on civil and criminal appeals across a range of civil rights issues in federal courts of appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court. Before that, she worked on employment discrimination cases in federal district courts.
Alisa clerked for Judge Keith Ellison on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas and Judge Sandra Lynch on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. She earned her B.A. from Yale University and her J.D. from Stanford Law School.
*Admitted in California; practicing under direct supervision of members of the D.C. Bar pursuant to Rule 49(c)(8) while her application to the D.C. bar is pending.
