Consulting
Since 2015, Dr. Rachmilovitz has consulted U.S. and international clients and provided expert opinions on precedential constitutional and human rights cases in areas her fields and specifically on issue such as age of consent/ statutory rape laws, family law, and wrongful termination. For example, in 2020, Dr. Rachmilovitz advised attorneys challenging one state’s disparity in sentencing of same-sex and different-sex defendants of statutory rape. For this case, she reviewed the breadth and depth of jurisprudence and scholarship in the field and produced memoranda as to the current state of the law, the viability of different arguments attacking the statutory regime’s constitutionality, and devising strategies as to presenting arguments for striking down the statute and fending off opposing arguments from the state wishing to uphold it.
She has also volunteered with national LGBTQ rights organization, Lambda Legal, primarily in terms of the organization’s advocacy for LGBTQ persons equal protection in the context of religious freedoms. There, working closely with the organization’s law and policy director, Jenny Pizer, Dr. Rachmilovitz researched and wrote materials such as court briefs and comments for legislation proposed by the Trump Administration and opposed by Lambda Legal.
Dr. Rachmilovitz has experience in practical case management as well, that gives her the tools to consult along the entire life-cycle of the case. As a law clerk in a California legal services non-profit, she worked closely with clients on intake, evidence collection, and negotiation for settlements. Dr. Rachmilovitz has spent much of her time there
responding to discovery requests in unlawful detainer cases; preparing cases for trials, including interviewing client and drafting of jury documents; and writing motions, such as motions to set aside judgments, motions to amend answers and motions for attorney's fees.
Dr. Rachmilovitz is also available for legal or cultural consulting on creative writing projects, screenplays, theater or any artistic endeavor that may be advanced by her unique journey as a feminist lawyer, immigrant, or any other aspects of her lived- and professional experience.