Rebecca Livengood is a Partner at Relman Colfax. Rebecca joined the firm in 2019. In her civil rights litigation practice, she focuses on challenging racial discrimination in housing, provision of public services, and policing.

Rebecca has participated in and played a lead role in numerous complex civil rights cases, including a groundbreaking challenge to unconstitutional discrimination against African Americans and Gullah-Geechee descendants on Sapelo Island, a twenty-one plaintiff case challenging racial discrimination by the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) in its treatment of properties post-foreclosure, and a case involving racial and gender discrimination in the enforcement of Peoria, Illinois’s nuisance ordinance. She also authored an amicus brief on behalf of Alabama fair housing organizations before the Supreme Court in Merrill v. Milligan, a Voting Rights Act case challenging Alabama’s congressional district map.

Prior to joining the firm, Rebecca was a staff attorney at the Equal Justice Initiative, where she represented prisoners on Alabama’s death row in capital post-conviction proceedings and challenged excessive punishment in the Alabama criminal legal system. She was also a Skadden Fellow at the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey, where she litigated constitutional claims in state and federal courts, with a focus on police misconduct and the rights of young people in the criminal legal system. Rebecca was among the lead counsel in first-of-its-kind litigation against the New Jersey Department of Corrections under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act to secure special education services for hundreds of young people in its custody throughout the state.

Rebecca clerked for Judge Michael A. Chagares on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and for Judge Stewart Dalzell on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.