Adrienne Spiegel

Adrienne Spiegel is an associate at Rosen Bien Galvan & Grunfeld LLP. She works on complex litigation and prelitigation matters in federal and state court.

Prior to joining RBGG, Adrienne was a clinical supervising attorney at Berkeley Law School and staff attorney at the East Bay Community Law Center, where she provided holistic representation to youth caught up in the juvenile delinquency system. Adrienne also completed a two-year fellowship at Public Justice, where she represented individuals in Section 1983 lawsuits and advanced a project targeting the qualified immunity doctrine.

Adrienne has also worked extensively to deconstruct sex-based stereotypes and envision a world where people of all genders and expressions can thrive, including by representing young people in sex-discrimination matters. She serves on the board of the Genders & Sexualities Alliance Network. Before law school, Adrienne supported litigation and movement strategy as a paralegal at the ACLU’s LGBTQ Project.  In that role, she was a member of the team that successfully litigated Obergefell v. Hodges before the Supreme Court, resulting in the landmark ruling that state bans on same-sex marriage are unconstitutional.

Adrienne received her J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School and clerked for the Honorable Marsha S. Berzon on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

REPRESENTATIVE CASES

• California Coalition for Women Prisoners v. United States of America Federal Bureau of Prisons, N.D. Cal No. 4:23-cv-04155-YGR: RBGG and co-counsel Rights Behind Bars, California Coalition for Immigrant Justice, and Arnold & Porter LLP, filed a class action on August 16, 2023 on behalf of the California Coalition for Women Prisoners (“CCWP”) against the Bureau of Prisons (“BOP”) challenging rampant sexual abuse and harassment by officers at FCI Dublin as well as lack of mental and medical health care for survivors. Alongside the complaint, we filed a Motion for Preliminary Injunction, to immediately remedy many of the systemic problems. Following nine days of evidentiary hearings in January 2024, and the Court’s touring of the facility in February 2024, the Court granted Plaintiffs’ motion and ordered appointment of a Special Master on March 15, 2023. Days after the monitor began work, BOP abruptly closed the facility and moved hundreds of class members to prisons across the country under inhumane conditions, in an apparent attempt to evade accountability. Despite multiple unsuccessful attempts by BOP to end monitoring and terminate the lawsuit, the court issued multiple orders extending the powers of the monitor to oversee treatment and conditions of people transferred from Dublin. Following months of intensive negotiations, the parties reached an unprecedented Consent Decree. If approved, the Consent Decree will be enforced at over a dozen federal women’s prisons where nearly 500 class members are now housed, for the next two years. The tentative agreement mandates robust oversight and remedies for issues related to staff sexual and physical abuse, retaliation, medical care, and case work. More information about the case and a copy of the Consent Decree is available here.