BGL Proudly Welcomes New Civil Rights Attorney, Catalina Odio – Technologist
Brown, Goldstein & Levy is proud to welcome Catalina Odio as a new attorney. Her practice includes cases involving disability rights, housing discrimination, wrongful convictions and police misconduct, and criminal defense.
Catalina is committed to a career as a trial lawyer with a diverse practice, including public interest litigation. As an undergraduate, she followed that aspiration to Immigrant Justice Corps (IJC), where she served as a fellow for two years after college. At IJC, she represented low-income individuals and families in their citizenship, residency, and work permit applications, assisting clients from screening through final interviews before U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
During law school at Yale, Catalina served as a student attorney, and later student director, at the San Francisco Affirmative Litigation Project. Through this clinic, she supported the work of the San Francisco City Attorney’s office in bringing public interest lawsuits on behalf of city residents. She also worked as a summer law clerk in the consumer protection section of the Colorado Attorney General’s office, assisting with antitrust and consumer fraud matters. Later, as a BGL summer associate, Catalina drafted a wrongful conviction compensation petition and a Federal Tort Claims Act complaint and assisted with ADA and immigration matters. This reaffirmed her commitment to join a law firm whose work includes civil rights and other public interest litigation.
After graduating from law school, she clerked for the Honorable Jeffrey A. Meyer of the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut.
Catalina looks forward to advocating for her clients’ rights.
Learn more about Catalina here.
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