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David DePriest

Fellow

David DePriest is a Civil Rights Fellow at Relman Colfax. His litigation work involves challenging housing and appraisal discrimination, pushing for website accessibility, and reforming the criminal legal system.

Prior to joining the firm, David was Notes Editor for the Washington University Jurisprudence Review, the only student-edited, in-print journal of jurisprudence in the United States. He also served as a teaching assistant working primarily on critical race scholarship and research on employment discrimination and property law. His clinical work centered around tenant advocacy and fair housing work, including defending tenants facing eviction and working to reverse generations of disinvestment in St. Louis.

Outside of his academic work, David was the 2021-2022 Advocacy Chair for WashU’s Black Law Students Association and spent two years on the school’s inaugural Standing Committee for Racial Equity leading efforts to reform the school’s curricular and staffing practices in the wake of 2020’s racial justice uprisings.

David interned with the ACLU of Kansas’s Legal Department and the national ACLU’s Liberty Center working on cases concerning police brutality, abortion access, LGBTQ+ rights, and racial justice.

David was a David M. Becker Public Service Fellow at Washington University School of Law, where he received the Dan Carter-Earl Tedrow Memorial Award.

Featured Cases

District of Columbia v. UDR, Inc.
Stanton Square LLC v. City of New Orleans
In October 2023, Relman Colfax filed a lawsuit in federal court on behalf of Stanton Square, LLC, a housing developer, against the City of New Orleans and its City Council. The lawsuit alleges that the City of New Orleans delayed, prevented, and otherwise interfered with Plaintiff’s attempts to construct The Village at English Turn, a multi-family affordable housing apartment complex for working and middle-class individuals and families in the City of New Orleans.
Puryear v. Dotson
Relman Colfax secured relief for Leslie Puryear and potentially hundreds of other people in his position in this habeas corpus case, filed with the ACLU of Virginia. The case involved a challenge to continued confinement by the Virginia Department of Corrections (VADOC) after Mr. Puryear had earned sufficient sentence credits to secure his release.

Bashin v. Conduent

Connolly v. Lanham

FHCCI v. Rainbow

Education

J.D., Washington University School of Law

B.A. Howard University, magna cum laude

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Missouri
Application to DC Bar submitted

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