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Top 22 Criminal justice reform law firms based in Washington, United States

Name: Criminal justice reform law firms based in Washington, United States
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Compiled by the RevenueBase Data Team Data refreshed Sep 14, 2026 35 companies tracked

RevenueBase identified 35 criminal justice reform law firms headquartered in Washington, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 815 professional contacts across them, including 383 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.

This list covers criminal justice reform law firms headquartered in Washington, United States, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 14, 2026.

Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.

How to read this list HQ checked on every row RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row Refreshed Sep 14, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review

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The 22 largest criminal justice reform law firms based in Washington, United States

Ranked by team size

Top 22 of 35 criminal justice reform law firms based in Washington, United States, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 14, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to criminal justice reform law firms: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#	Company	RevenueBase Smart Search	Headquarters	Employees	Contacts
1	Public Defender Service For The District Of Columbia	Indirect evidence	Washington, DC, United StatesHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	201-500	515 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “The Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia (PDS) provides and promotes quality legal representation to indigent adults and children facing a loss of liberty in the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
2	FAMM	Strong evidence	Washington, DC, United StatesHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	11-50	29 contacts →
	Strong evidence “FAMM is a national nonpartisan advocacy organization that promotes fair and effective criminal justice policies that safeguard taxpayer dollars and keep our communities safe.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
3	Civil Rights Corps	Indirect evidence	Washington, DC, United StatesHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	11-50	28 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Civil Rights Corps is dedicated to challenging systemic injustices and to building a society that promotes equality and freedom for all human beings.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
4	Schertler Onorato Mead Sears & Manning	Partial evidence	Washington, DC, United StatesHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	11-50	27 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Schertler Onorato Mead & Sears, LLP is a boutique litigation firm in Washington, DC specialized in white-collar criminal defense, enforcement matters, and civil and criminal trial…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
5	Council For Court Excellence	Strong evidence	Washington, DC, United StatesHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	1-10	27 contacts →
	Strong evidence “The Council for Court Excellence (CCE) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that works to improve the administration of justice to ensure civil and criminal justice systems…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
6	The Sentencing Project	Indirect evidence	Washington, DC, United StatesHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	11-50	23 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “The Sentencing Project is a leader in changing the way Americans think about crime and punishment.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
7	Justice Policy Institute	Partial evidence	Washington, DC, United StatesHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	1-10	21 contacts →
	Partial evidence “The Justice Policy Institute ceased operations in August 2025 after nearly three decades of advocacy, research, and coalition work to reduce the use of incarceration and the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
8	DC Justice LAB	Strong evidence	Washington, DC, United StatesHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	1-10	18 contacts →
	Strong evidence “DC Justice Lab is a team of law and policy experts researching, organizing, and advocating for large-scale changes to the District’s criminal legal system.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
9	The Second Look Project	Indirect evidence	Washington, DC, United StatesHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	1-10	16 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “The Second Look Project was founded to provide advocacy and legal support for individuals seeking relief from extreme sentences in the District of Columbia.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
10	Rights Behind Bars	Indirect evidence	Washington, DC, United StatesHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	1-10	12 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Rights Behind Bars is a non-profit legal advocacy organization working alongside incarcerated people to challenge the cruel and inhumane conditions of confinement.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
11	Open City Advocates	Partial evidence	Washington, DC, United StatesHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	1-10	12 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Open City Advocates provides youth-centered legal defense and holistic advocacy for young people after sentencing in the juvenile justice system.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
12	Justice Innovation LAB	Indirect evidence	Washington, DC, United StatesHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	1-10	7 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Nearly 2 million people are incarcerated in the United States on any given day, with hundreds of thousands being held in jail without a conviction while awaiting trial.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
13	Bourelly, George And Brodey Pllc	Partial evidence	Washington, DC, United StatesHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	1-10	6 contacts →
	Partial evidence “We are a boutique litigation firm based in Washington, DC that defends individuals and corporations in criminal and civil matters around the country.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
14	DUE Process Institute	Partial evidence	Washington, DC, United StatesHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	1-10	5 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Due Process Institute is a 504(c)(4) bipartisan nonprofit that works to honor, preserve, and restore principles of fairness in the criminal legal system.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
15	EPW LAW Pllc	Partial evidence	Washington, DC, United StatesHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	1-10	4 contacts →
	Partial evidence “This black queer woman owned firm specializes in criminal defense and civil rights legal services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
16	Burnham & Gorokhov, Pllc	Strong evidence	Washington, DC, United StatesHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	1-10	3 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Burnham & Gorokhov is a criminal defense law firm in Washington DC.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
17	Justice Action Network	Partial evidence	Washington, DC, United StatesHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	11-50	2 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Justice Action Network (JAN) is a national bipartisan 501(c)(4) national, bipartisan organization dedicated to advancing smarter justice policies that improve public safety…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
18	Mccool LAW Pllc	Indirect evidence	Washington, DC, United StatesHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	1-10	2 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Steven J.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
19	Melanie Bates Consulting, LLC	Strong evidence	Washington, DC, United StatesHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	1-10	2 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Melanie Bates Consulting, LLC is a Washington, D.C-based strategic policy and communications firm with an overall focus on criminal justice reform.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
20	Center For Childrens LAW And Policy INC	Strong evidence	Washington, DC, United StatesHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	1-10	2 contacts →
	Strong evidence “The Center for Children’s Law and Policy (CCLP) is a public interest law and policy organization focused on reform of the youth legal system and other systems that affect troubled…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
21	Lotze Mosley LLP	Indirect evidence	Washington, MD, United StatesHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	1-10	1 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Lotze Mosley LLP is a company based out of Washington, Maryland, United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
22	The Center For Prison Reform For Nonviolent Offenders	Strong evidence	Washington, DC, United StatesHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	1-10	1 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Strict "three-strikes" laws with mandatory sentencing guidelines were created with the best of intentions, aimed at keeping violent criminals convicted multiple times out of the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026

RevenueBase Smart Search

RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: criminal justice reform law firms. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.

Strong evidence: The company's own public description of its business names criminal justice reform law firms.
Partial evidence: Its own public description names part of criminal justice reform law firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
Indirect evidence: The description shown does not name criminal justice reform law firms. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.

RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.

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Criminal justice reform law firms based in Washington, United States at a glance

As of Sep 14, 2026

47.0%Verified-email coverage

23.3Average contacts per company

1-10Median size (employees)

285.7%Largest-city concentration · New York

Sep 14, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

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11-50

201-500

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Email recency for this list is measured across the whole United States list rather than for Washington, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Washington, over 35 companies.

How this list was built

Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among criminal justice reform law firms, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.

Source: The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
What qualifies: Companies headquartered in Washington, United States whose own description of what they do matches “criminal justice reform law firms”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
RevenueBase Smart Search: RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names criminal justice reform law firms), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
What we exclude: Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among criminal justice reform law firms, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Washington are excluded even when they keep an office there.
Match quality: In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
Ranking: Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
Verification: Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 383 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
Refresh: This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 14, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
Corrections: Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.

Criminal justice reform law firms by metro in the United States

Frequently asked

What is RevenueBase Smart Search?

RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names criminal justice reform law firms, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.

How many criminal justice reform law firms are there based in Washington, United States?

RevenueBase identified 35 criminal justice reform law firms headquartered in Washington, United States as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.

What is the largest company on this list?

Public Defender Service For The District Of Columbia, headquartered in Washington, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most criminal justice reform law firms?

New York leads with 100 headquartered companies, followed by Chicago (62) and Atlanta (51).

How do I get contact information for these companies?

A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 383 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 35 companies.

How current is this list?

The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 14, 2026.

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About this data

RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.