Danielle Lang

Danielle has worked as a civil rights litigator for her entire career and as a voting rights litigator for over a decade. At CLC, she has led dozens of case teams challenging state and federal laws and policies that unlawfully restrict access to the ballot. These matters include successful challenges to the second Trump administration's illegal executive order on elections; a last-minute error-ridden voter purge in Alabama in 2024; Arizona's burdensome registration documentation of citizenship requirements; North Dakota's voter ID law targeting Native communities; Texas's discriminatory voter ID law; and numerous successful challenges to signature match policies for absentee ballots.

Under her leadership, CLC's Voting Rights team not only fights in court to protect voters, but also advances pro-voter policies at the local, state and federal level across the country. In 2018, alongside CLC’s Blair Bowie, she founded CLC's unique Restore Your Vote Project. She also serves as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center, where she co-teaches the Election Law Practicum with CLC's Jonathan Diaz.

Previously, Danielle served as a Skadden Fellow in the Employment Rights Project of Bet Tzedek Legal Services in Los Angeles, where she represented low-wage immigrant workers in wage and hour, discrimination and human trafficking matters. From 2012 to 2013, Danielle clerked for Judge Richard A. Paez on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.  

Danielle is a 2012 graduate of Yale Law School and a 2008 graduate of New York University, where she earned a bachelor’s degree with honors in European studies. Danielle is a member of the District of Columbia, New York and Pennsylvania bars, as well as the bars of the U.S. Supreme Court; the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, Ninth and Eleventh Circuits; and the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. She joined CLC in 2015.