Lindsay Battles joined Litt, Estuar & Kitson in 2008. Her practice includes individual and class action cases relating to police misconduct, wrongful conviction, harassment, discrimination, and wage and hour violations. Ms. Battles is admitted to practice in all California state courts, as well as the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. She is a member of the American Bar Association, the Los Angeles County Bar Association, the National Lawyer’s Guild Los Angeles Chapter and the National Police Accountability Project.

In her time with Litt, Estuar & Kitson, Ms. Battles has worked tirelessly on behalf of plaintiffs in serioius police misconduct cases.  Her efforts in Goldstein v. City of Long Beach, helped the firm achieve a $7.95 million settlement on behalf of the plaintiff, a man who spent 24 years in jail a crime he did not commit. Ms. Battles is currently involved in lawsuits challenging L.A. County’s practice of strip-searching jail inmates in groups, and in circumstances that violate the constitutional right to privacy.  In addition to her work on police misconduct cases, Ms. Battles has worked on matters involving employment discrimination, harassment and workplace retaliation, as well as on class actions to recover unpaid overtime and premium pay for workers in a variety of fields.

Ms. Battles earned her J.D. at Northwestern University Law School in 2008 with a concentration in Law and Social Policy. During law school, Ms. Battles interned at the ACLU National Drug Law Reform Project and the ACLU of Illinois, on issues including jail conditions of confinement for juvenile detainees, discrimination against juvenile LGBT jail detainees, and race-based selective enforcement of drug laws.

As a law student, Ms. Battles also worked in the Bluhm Legal Clinic’s Children and Family Justice Center where she participated in an ABA-sponsored project examining school discipline from a human rights perspective and helped represent juvenile clients in both delinquency and school expulsion proceedings. She continues to work on behalf of education and youth issues, providing pro bono legal services to court-involved youth and special education students.

Ms. Battles received her B.A. from the University of Missouri at Kansas City in 2003. After graduating, she participated in a study concerning the effects of campaign finance reform in the 2004 presidential election.