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Mission
Anna Marie Richmond is a solo practitioner, based in Buffalo, New York. She focuses her practice on protecting her clients' civil and constitutional rights, concentrating in litigation in Federal Court, the Courts of New York State, and before Administrative Agencies.
Ms. Richmond represents clients who have suffered discrimination on the basis of race, age, gender, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, gender expression, and other forms of discrimination prohibited by New York and Federal law. She litigates cases involving employment discrimination, housing discrimination, LGBTQ issues, police misconduct, sexual harassment, access to public accommodations, discrimination in education, retaliation under the anti-discrimination laws, prisoner civil rights, and similar issues. |
Credentials
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Ms. Richmond holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from Rutgers College and Rutgers School of Communication and Information in New Brunswick, New Jersey; and a Juris Doctor degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo. She is admitted to practice in New York State, before the United States District Courts for the Western, Southern, Eastern and Northern Districts of New York, and before the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and the Supreme Court of the United States.
Ms. Richmond is a member of the Bar Association of Erie County NY, of the Women’s Bar Association of the State of New York, and of the Minority Bar Association of Western New York.. She has served as Chair of the BAEC's Federal Practice and Continuing Legal Education Committees and is active on the Federal Practice Committee, the Continuing Legal Education Committee, the Human Rights Committee, and the Labor and Employment Committee, and is a member of the MBAWNY's Criminal Justice Task Force The U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York recognized her service as appointed counsel on behalf of indigent plaintiffs with its annual Pro Bono award in 1999 and 2006. She received an award from the ECBA Volunteer Lawyers Project in 2019 for her service to the Federal Court's Pro Se Assistance Program. In 2020, she received a Special Service Award from the Bar Association of Erie County, and the Women's Bar Association of the State of New York honored her with the Hanna S. Cohn Pro Bono Award. Ms. Richmond has been recognized by Super Lawyers of Upstate New York in 2019, 2020, and 2021. |
Background |
Ms. Richmond previously served as Senior Administrative Law Judge in the Buffalo Office of New York’s Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board. She has also served as Pro Se Staff Attorney for the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York, where she acted as law clerk to the judges of the District for cases filed by pro se litigants, and served as the Court’s liaison to pro se litigants. She began her legal career as a staff attorney for Prisoners’ Legal Services of New York, where she represented indigent state prisoners in administrative proceedings to challenge conditions of confinement, litigated federal § 1983 civil rights actions, practiced in various New York State courts, and engaged in administrative advocacy.
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