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Tahir Duckett

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Tahir Duckett is an Attorney at Relman Colfax. Tahir joined the firm in 2019, after previously serving as a summer associate at the firm in 2016. In his civil rights litigation practice, Tahir works on a variety of cases involving discrimination in housing, employment, education, lending, public accommodations, and policing.

Tahir’s work largely focuses on racial justice. He is currently part of the team challenging the Metropolitan Police Department’s mass arrest and excessive use of force against protesters on Swann Street during the summer of 2020. Tahir is also representing two women alleging sexual harassment by their Housing Manager at the DC Housing Authority.

Prior to joining the firm, Tahir served as a law clerk to the Honorable George J. Hazel on the United States District Court for the District of Maryland. He previously worked as the Supreme Court Assistance Project Fellow at Public Citizen, where he assisted public interest parties in opposing certiorari before the United States Supreme Court. Before going to law school, Tahir spent a decade working as an organizer for the labor movement and other progressive causes.

Tahir worked his way through law school at the Georgetown University Law Center, where he graduated magna cum laude as a Public Interest Law Scholar. He was a founding executive committee member of Law For Black Lives-DC, an organization providing legal and policy support to the Movement for Black Lives in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. Tahir is also the Founder of ReThink, a DC-based organization dedicated to preventing sexual violence.

Featured Cases

Goodwin et al. v. District of Columbia et al.
This lawsuit, brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, the First and Fourth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution, and state common law, alleges the excessive use of force and suppression of free speech by the District of Columbia in its mass arrest of peaceful “Black Lives Matter” protesters on Swann Street on June 1, 2020.

Publications

T. Duckett, Note, Unreasonably Immune: Rethinking Qualified Immunity in Fourth Amendment Excessive Force Cases, 53 Am. Crim. L. Rev. 409 (2016)

The Hidden Constitutional Costs of the Carceral System, The Atlantic, June 23, 2020

In the Media

Family Who Wants To Add Garage To Historic Home For Daughter In Wheelchair Sues Old Town Group Trying To Block It
Block Club Chicago, 12.20.2019

Education

J.D., Georgetown University Law Center, magna cum laude

B.A., Emory University

Admissions

District of Columbia

Clerkships

Hon. George J. Hazel, U.S. District Court, District of Maryland

News & Updates

Multimedia

Tahir presented a keynote address to the 2021 ACS Student Convention. Watch here.

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