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Advocacy and expertise: Attorney Profile
A former attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, prosecutor specialized in police use of force, director of police oversight agencies, and university Title IX Coordinator, Aaron Zisser has dedicated his entire career to protecting civil rights, preventing harm to individuals and communities, and confronting institutions and agencies over their abusive policies and practices.
Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Mr. Zisser brings deep expertise and a particular aptitude for delving into the facts, closely reviewing records, and building a compelling narrative. He approaches his legal advocacy with the highest ethical standards and deeply-held principles. Mr. Zisser is experienced in both systemic issues in institutions and individual cases involving workplace discrimination, discrimination and abuse in schools, and police and jailer misconduct. He has advised police oversight agencies and is a rare attorney who advocates on behalf of victims/survivors in Title IX sexual misconduct cases.
Early in his career, Mr. Zisser clerked for a U.S. District Court judge in Memphis and was a staff attorney at a nonprofit civil rights organization in Philadelphia. He also worked for an international human rights organization, which sent him to monitor the first tribunal at Guantanamo Bay.
Mr. Zisser is licensed to practice in California and New York and works out of San Jose, California. He earned his law degree from Georgetown University and his BA in Comparative Literature from UC Berkeley, both with honors.
Aaron Zisser, Attorney At Law
Areas of Practice
Civil Rights in the workplace and schools (incl. Title IX)
Zisser Law represents individuals experiencing discrimination and abuse, including sexual misconduct, in the workplace or in school. Mr. Zisser brings a unique perspective as a former university Title IX Coordinator who oversaw investigations involving both students and staff. Mr. Zisser can serve as an adviser to clients during a school or university’s administrative investigation (e.g., by a Title IX office), litigate, or assist in filing a complaint with and during an investigation by the federal Office for Civil Rights.
Zisser Law represents individuals and groups who have been subjected to excessive use of force or sexual abuse by police or while in confinement, who have been denied medical or mental health care, or who have been subjected to other abuses by police or in confinement. Mr. Zisser brings extensive experience from his work at US DOJ investigating conditions of confinement and as a former police oversight director.
Police and corrections
Disability rights
Zisser Law advises and advocates for clients seeking reasonable accommodations / modifications, including mental health and intellectual and developmental disabilities. Mr. Zisser brings extensive experience in disability rights from his work at US DOJ, where he investigated denial of mental health and other disability services and discrimination against students with disabilities. He also oversaw disability rights cases in the university setting.
Monitoring / Investigations / Oversight
Zisser Law conducts court monitoring for consent decrees and settlement agreements as well as other neutral independent reviews of incidents, policies, and internal investigations, including workplace investigations and investigations of Title IX complaints. A former US DOJ attorney, director of independent oversight agencies, and assistant court monitor, Mr. Zisser brings a strong background in leading and directing monitoring and investigations of various types of agencies and institutions.
“It is intimidating when you’re up against a big agency or institution. So it’s important to have counsel who has confronted that kind of powerful entity.”
– Aaron Zisser
Get in Touch
Please contact us for a consultation or about potential projects.
aaron@zisserlawoffice.com
(669) 228-5154