Ed Caspar

Edward Caspar joined the Lawyers’ Committee in 2019. As Acting Co-Chief Counsel, Mr. Caspar assists in the direction and oversight of legal operations at the Lawyers’ Committee and provides strategic guidance for litigation and advocacy projects across the organization. Before joining the Lawyers’ Committee, Mr. Caspar engaged in extensive litigation in a variety of civil rights cases as an attorney in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice from 2002 to 2017.

As Special Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General from 2012 to 2015, Mr. Caspar led the United States’ civil litigation against the Sheriff’s Office of Maricopa County, Arizona, for widespread civil rights violations, helping to secure crucial reforms and end unconstitutional policing practices. Mr. Caspar also served as a prosecutor in the Division’s Criminal Section for several years, prosecuting cases involving police misconduct, hate crimes, and human trafficking. And as an attorney in the Division’s Educational Opportunities Section, Mr. Caspar litigated civil cases to remedy racial discrimination in public schools.

In 2016, Mr. Caspar served as Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Policy, helping to lead the development of policy initiatives on a broad array of subjects, including the advancement of civil rights and criminal justice reform. From 2017 to 2019, Mr. Caspar served as Director of the Office of Program Performance in the Legal Services Corporation, which administered over $400 million dollars in grants supporting legal services for the poor throughout the United States.

Bar Admissions: Admitted in the District of Columbia, Massachusetts