Len Kamdang is the Director of the Criminal Justice Project at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, where he leads national efforts to combat systemic injustices in the criminal legal system through litigation, public education, and advocacy. Len is an accomplished trial attorney, a formidable civil litigator, and a skilled criminal defense lawyer. He spent over a decade as an assistant federal defender in the Eastern District of New York, where he tried cases involving narcotics trafficking, organized crime, and national security matters. By the time he left Federal Defenders of New York in 2018, he had won more jury trials than any attorney in the history of the office.

Len began his legal career as a staff attorney at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, where he secured full acquittals in all of his felony jury trials as lead counsel. He has also litigated complex wrongful conviction and police misconduct cases nationwide in private practice, many of which resulted in multi-million-dollar settlements. More recently, Len was the Senior Director of Litigation Strategy and Trials at Everytown Law, the impact litigation arm of the nation’s largest gun violence prevention organization. 

Len is a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School and clerked for the Honorable Lois Bloom in the Eastern District of New York. He has taught Trial Advocacy and Professional Responsibility at CUNY School of Law. In 2023–2024, he served as a Wasserstein Public Interest Fellow at Harvard Law School. He holds a B.A. in Sociology and English from Georgetown University. Before law school, Len worked as an Honors Paralegal in the Housing and Civil Enforcement Section of the Civil Rights Division at the U.S. Department of Justice.