Professional Details

Caryn C. Lederer is an associate with Hughes Socol Piers Resnick & Dym, Ltd. She represents clients in a wide variety of complex litigation matters, with a focus on civil rights, class actions, and labor and employment cases. She joined the firm in 2010.

Before joining the firm, Ms. Lederer worked with the Special Litigation Unit at New York Legal Assistance Group, where she litigated class actions challenging systemic violations of low-income and immigrant New Yorkers’ rights to government benefits and services. Prior to that, Ms. Lederer served as Special Counsel for Public Service at the Center for Legal and Court Technology at William & Mary Law School, where she oversaw the Center’s public interest projects including the Accessible Courts Initiative and work related to the Guantánamo military commissions. Prior to her work with the Center, Ms. Lederer was a litigation associate at Weil, Gotshal, & Manges. 

During law school, Ms. Lederer served as an Executive Editor of the Journal of Law and Politics and participated in the International Human Rights Law Clinic. Following law school, she worked in the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Tanzania.