Rachel Scholz-Bright

Rachel Scholz-Bright is an associate in Ropes & Gray's litigation and enforcement practice group. Her practice focuses on government investigations and commercial litigation and she has experience representing companies in the healthcare industry, including hospitals, pharmaceutical companies and medical device manufacturers. Rachel maintains an active pro bono practice focused on immigration and civil rights law.

During law school, Rachel externed for the Honorable Reggie B. Walton of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and for the Senate Judiciary Committee in the Office of Senator Richard Blumenthal, and interned for GLBTQ Legal Advocates and Defenders in Boston. She served as the president of the Georgetown Law ACLU, as senior articles editor for the Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law, and was a member of Barristers’ Council in the Appellate Advocacy division. She also participated in the Appellate Courts Immersion Clinic, where she co-authored briefs in multiple U.S Courts of Appeal. In 2020, Rachel was named a runner-up in the American Constitution Society’s annual Constance Baker Motley national law student writing competition for her paper A Hail Mary for the Administrative State: An Originalist Defense of Chevron Deference.

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