Profile Description

OSSAI MIAZAD is Partner and Co-Chair of the Discrimination and Retaliation Practice Group and is also active in the firm's Class & Collective Action Practice Group at Outten & Golden LLP in New York. She represents employees in class action and impact litigation aimed at eliminating systemic discrimination. She has experience litigating before federal and state courts and arbitration panels. Ms. Miazad currently serves as plaintiffs' counsel in numerous major class action lawsuits involving challenges to the use of credit and criminal history records for employment decisions.  She is also at the forefront of litigating hiring and lending discrimination cases on behalf of non-U.S. citizens, such as individuals with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) status, Temporary Protective Status (TPS), conditional legal permanent residency or other visa types, who are denied jobs or loans based on their citizenship or immigration status.