State of Connecticut, District of Connecticut, Second Circuit Court of Appeals, State of New York

Michael Roberts is a civil rights attorney with more than a decade of frontline experience litigating employment and housing discrimination cases. He co-founded Rights & Remedies because he believes that people who have been wronged deserve tenacious, knowledgeable advocates — not just a process to endure.

Michael spent nearly eleven years at the Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities (CHRO), one of the nation's oldest civil rights enforcement agencies, starting as a trainee and rising to become one of the agency's lead appellate litigators. There, he represented the CHRO in a high-volume docket of discrimination cases with a particular focus on appellate litigation and administrative law. He mediated and investigated complaints, argued before the Connecticut Supreme Court and Appellate Court, spearheaded amicus and intervention efforts to shape state-level precedent, and advised the agency on Freedom of Information Act compliance. He knows Connecticut's civil rights enforcement system from the inside — how complaints are investigated, where cases stall, and how to move them forward.

More recently, Michael served as Legal Director at a national civil rights nonprofit, where he oversaw employment discrimination case selection, developed legal strategy, built a network of partner organizations and firms, and drafted testimony in support of civil rights legislation. That national perspective informs how he thinks about civil rights law — not just as a series of individual cases, but as a body of doctrine with real consequences for how people live and work.

Michael is fluent in Spanish and is available to assist Spanish-speaking clients throughout their matter. He is a member of the Connecticut and New York bars and is admitted to practice before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. At Rights & Remedies, he handles employment discrimination, housing discrimination, and public accommodations matters, with particular depth in CHRO proceedings, administrative appeals, and appellate litigation.