About Us
Our Mission
The best workplaces are places where working humans can flourish. Everyone agrees on this in principle; why does it fall apart in practice? Sometimes the answer is bias: assumptions that lead us to give some people the benefit of the doubt and some the very opposite. At Marcuse Law LLC we help you expose unlawful discrimination and hold the responsible parties accountable.
Our Lawyers
Deborah K. Marcuse
Deborah is the Founding Attorney of Marcuse Law LLC, with offices in Baltimore, MD and New York, NY, and Of Counsel at Lumen Law Center. She is admitted to practice in New York, Maryland, the District of Columbia, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania (retired status).
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For the last eighteen years Deborah has, when necessary, litigated high-profile, high-stakes civil rights and employment-related cases on behalf of individuals and classes, attaining victories in courts around the country and obtaining over $50 million and meaningful programmatic relief for her clients and class members.
Until the end of 2023 Deborah was Firm Managing Partner of a plaintiff-side employment and civil rights law firm with more than 50 lawyers and staff at seven offices around the country. As a manager and mentor of humans in a profession not always (or even often) hospitable to our flourishing, Deborah aims to manifest a form of zealous advocacy that is vigorous, thoughtful, and humane, and a vision of lawyering that is client-centered, oriented toward social and economic justice, and accommodating of the lives of working people.
A Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, Deborah has gratefully received awards and recognition in the profession, including by the Maryland Daily Record as one of its Leaders in Law (2022), by Benchmark Litigation on its Inaugural Top 20 Labor and Employment Litigators List (2021), by the National Law Journal as one of the Elite Women of the Plaintiff’s Bar and a Plaintiffs’ Lawyer Trailblazer (2021), and by Law360 as an Employment MVP (2019). She also received a Women Worth Watching in Leadership Award from Profiles in Diversity Journal (2021) and has been named a Benchmark Litigation Labor & Employment Star annually since 2018. She is proud to be an active member of the National Employment Lawyers’ Association, where she was until recently Co-Chair of the Class and Collective Actions Practice Group and has served as Trial Boot Camp faculty. Deborah speaks and writes on topics including neurodivergence, intersectionality, equal pay, Title VII, Title IX, deposition and trial skills, recognizing and preventing bias in our workplaces.
Deborah received her BA cum laude with Distinction in History from Yale College, her PhD in Religion from Duke University, and her law degree from the Yale Law School. As an Arthur Liman Public Interest Fellow from 2008 – 2009, Deborah served as the Founding Coordinator of the City of New Haven’s Initiative to support residents returning home from incarceration.
Born and raised in the District of Columbia, Deborah has lived since 2018 in her beloved adopted city of Baltimore, where she attempts annually to grow organic vegetables alongside her schoolteacher spouse, two revolutionary children, and her somnolent miniature schnauzer coworker Frank.
Admissions
New York
Maryland
District of Columbia
Pennsylvania (retired status)
Connecticut (retired status)
U.S. Supreme Court
U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit Court
U.S. Court Of Appeals, Second Circuit (inactive)
U.S. Court Of Appeals, Fourth Circuit
U.S. District Court, Connecticut (Inactive)
U.S. District Court, District Of Columbia
U.S. District Court, Maryland
U.S. District Court, New York Eastern District
U.S. District Court, New York Southern District
U.S. District Court, Pennsylvania Western District
Memberships
American Bar Association (ABA) Labor and Employment Law Section
DC Bar
Fellows of the American Bar Association
Maryland State Bar Association (MSBA)
Metropolitan Washington Employment Lawyers’ Association (MWELA)
National Employment Lawyers’ Association (NELA)
New York Employment Lawyers’ Association (NELA/NY)
Panels and Presentations
“Accommodating Neurodiversity: A Model for Inclusion in the Legal Profession.” ABA Webinar, April 16, 2025.
“Neurodiversity in the Legal Profession.” National Employment Lawyers’ Association (NELA) Convention, June 2024.
“We Are (All of) What We Are: Litigating Intersectional Discrimination Claims.” ABA Government and Public Sector Lawyers’ Division, February 2023.
Trial Boot Camp Faculty. NELA Trial Boot Camp, October 2022.
“Creative Deposition Strategies.” NELA Webinar/Workshop Series – Pre-trial Powerhouse: Skills for Success from ESI to Trial Day, December 2021.
“Advanced Topics in Title IX.” NELA Convention, June 2021.
“Confronting Workplace Bias: Understanding the Risks and Developing Effective Strategies.” Georgetown Law CLE: 2021 Advanced Commercial Leasing Institute, April 2021.
“The Aftermath of Epic Systems.” Pacific Coast Labor & Employment Law Conference, April 2019.
“Pay Equity in Law Practice.” Practising Law Institute, Cutting-Edge Employment Law Issues 2018: The California Difference, September 2018.
“Solutions Panel – Combating Inequality in Our Community.” Federal Bar Association San Diego Equality in the Law Conference, August 2018.
“Masterpiece Cake Shop: Intersection Between Religious and Moral Liberty and Benefits.” ABA Labor and Employment Employee Benefits Committee Webinar, July 2018.
“Managing the Haystack: How to Get the Most Out of Electronic Discovery.” Impact Fund 16th Annual Class Action Conference, February 2018.
“Intersection Between Religion and Moral Liberty and Benefits.” ABA Labor & Employment Section, Employee Benefits Committee Midwinter Meeting, February 2018.
“Title VII & The Equal Pay Act: Dynamic Duo When Challenging Sex Discrimination In Compensation.” NELA Convention, June 2017.
“Big Data and Wearable Technology in the Workplace: If the Fit Bit Fits, Wear It.” ABA Labor and Employment Section, Employee Rights & Responsibilities Committee Midwinter Conference, March 2016.
Andi Mazingo
Andrea (“Andi”) Mazingo is the Founding Attorney of Lumen Law Center, P.C. and Of Counsel at Marcuse Law LLC, where she represents employees in complex employment disputes and high-impact civil litigation. She brings over a decade of experience practicing in elite corporate law firms, leading public-interest legal teams, and conducting complex investigations at the intersection of law, governance, and emerging technology.
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Andi’s practice focuses on employment discrimination, retaliation, and wrongful termination, with a particular emphasis on pretextual mass layoffs in Big Tech and wrongful terminations in Big Law. Having practiced corporate defense litigation at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP and Jones Day, she understands how large employers evaluate risk, build internal narratives, and defend litigation—insight she now uses to advocate powerfully for employees. Andi’s collaboration with Deborah K. Marcuse began on the other side of the attorney-client relationship: Andi was a named plaintiff in a gender discrimination class action in which Deborah served as her counsel, an experience that informs the depth of trust and shared purpose underlying their continued work together.
In addition to her private practice, Andi is organizing a team of academics and professionals to initiate public, democratic, and coherent AI governance. She has also served as General Counsel and Director of Legal Services at A New Way of Life Reentry Project, leading legal advocacy on behalf of formerly incarcerated women and their families.
Andi is a graduate of UC Berkeley and Northwestern Pritzker School of Law. Her work has been recognized by Super Lawyers Rising Stars and Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America. She is a vocal advocate for neurodiversity, gender diversity, racial justice, disability inclusion, and LGBTQ+ inclusion in both the legal and technology sectors.
A proud mom of two, Andi is queer, AuDHD, and a committed believer in what she calls “delusional optimism”—the radical idea that law and technology can still be tools for accountability, dignity, and shared prosperity.