The Law Office of Ronald L. Kuby vigorously represents clients in all manner of civil rights violations.  Our practice includes significant experience in handling cases involving false arrests and malicious prosecutions, police misconduct and brutality, First Amendment violations, employment discrimination and retaliation, and racial, religious, and sexual orientation discrimination. 

Our clientele is diverse and all-encompassing, and we enjoy an outstanding reputation among lawyers and judges.  We represent private individuals, government employees (municipal workers, teachers, police officers, firefighters, etc.), artists and entertainers among others.  We pride ourselves on our deep and abiding commitment to our clients and the rule of law, and philosophically believe that the Constitution knows no boundaries when it comes to matters of race, religion, sexual orientation, status and wealth. 

It was our firm’s commitment to social justice that led to one of the highest jury awards in New York State history:  An historic $43 million jury verdict against Bernard Hugo Goetz, the notorious subway gunman who gunned down four young Black men in 1984.  Ronald Kuby represented Darryl Cabey, who Goetz shot after uttering the now famous words, “You look all right.  Here’s another.”  The bullet severed Darryl’s spine, rendering him a paraplegic and resulting in brain damage. 

Other federal civil rights cases include litigated by our attorneys includes representation of renowned photographer Spencer Tunick whose First Amendment rights were trampled upon by authorities intent on banning his photography of mass-nudes in public; our representation of Anthony Faison and Charles Shepard who spent 14 years in prison for a crime they did not commit (resulting in a multi-million dollar verdict); our representation of Muslim police officers disciplined for having facial hair; our representation of private clubs subject to illegal searches and seizures; among many others.