Alison Flaum
Alison Flaum (Photo: Jennifer Linzer)
Staff Attorney Alison Flaum joined the Center in 2005 after five years with the Washington, D.C., Public Defender Service, where she represented hundreds of clients in cases ranging from misdemeanors to murders. As a member of the Service's Special Litigation Division, she focused on systemic criminal justice reform and developed expertise in forensic DNA, prosecutorial misconduct, false confessions, and the fallibility of eyewitness identification testimony.
Before joining the Washington Public Defender Service, she was a Prettyman Fellow at the Georgetown University Law Center, where she taught and supervised students in Georgetown's Criminal Justice and Juvenile Justice clinics, tried cases in the D.C. Superior Court, and earned an LL.M. in clinical advocacy. Before that, she was a Skadden Fellow at the Urban Justice Center, a civil legal services office serving homeless adults in New York.
A native Chicagoan, Ms. Flaum is a graduate of Brown University and Yale Law School.
