August 2025 – Kendall Brill & Kelly LLP Partner Laura Brill has been named among Lawdragon’s 2025 list of 500 Leading Civil Rights & Plaintiff Employment Lawyers. The award annually recognizes “champions who stand tall and deliver justice to individuals who have lost their means to make a living, their freedom, their dignity.”
Ms. Brill is a recognized legal thought leader who publishes and speaks widely on legal issues, including the First Amendment, entertainment and copyright law, appellate practice, and the legal profession. She was recently named a 2025 Leading Lawyer in Litigation: Appellate by Chambers USA and has been honored as such since 2019. She is often recognized for her influence in Los Angeles, California, and the United States, including her recognition among Daily Journal’s Top Women Lawyers in California (2006-2024), Top 100 Lawyer in California (2017); Benchmark Litigation Litigation Star (2021-present); The Best Lawyers in America award for Appellate Law (2007-present), Lawyer of the Year for Media Law (2021), and Lawyer of the Year for First Amendment Litigation (2020); Los Angeles Business Journal Woman of Influence: Attorney (2024) and Leader of Influence: Minority Attorney (2022); Los Angeles Times Business of Law Magazine Legal Visionary (2022); California Women Lawyers Judith Soley Lawyer as Citizen Award (2020); Lawdragon’s 500 Leading Lawyers in the U.S. (2017, 2019; Equality California’s Good Neighbor Award; and People for the American Way Foundation’s Defenders of Democracy Award honoring free speech and equal rights.
Ms. Brill is one of the United States’ leading voices for high school voter registration and youth participation, as founder and CEO for The Civics Center, a nationally renowned nonpartisan non-profit dedicated to youth voting. She is a member of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers and maintains an active pro bono docket, with a focus on equal rights, freedom of expression, and challenges to the use of the initiative process.
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