Bradley Girard is Senior Counsel at Democracy Forward.

Throughout his career as an impact litigator, Bradley has focused on issues of constitutional law, civil rights, employment discrimination, qualified immunity, and consumer protection, among others. He has practiced in all levels of state and federal courts, with a focus on the federal courts of appeals and U.S. Supreme Court.  

After graduating from Georgetown Law, Bradley clerked for the Honorable Neal E. Kravitz on the D.C. Superior Court and on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit for the Honorable Martha Craig Daughtrey. Bradley also served for two years as the clinical teaching fellow at Georgetown Law’s Appellate Courts Immersion Clinic, where he taught students public-interest impact litigation in the federal courts of appeals and the U.S Supreme Court and earned an LLM in advocacy. Bradley was a constitutional litigation fellow at Americans United for Separation of Church and State, where he later returned as Litigation Counsel, litigating cutting-edge First Amendment cases across the country as well as founding and co-directing the Legal Academy. During law school, Bradley worked at Gupta Wessler, Public Justice, Mehri & Skalet, and in the civil-rights division of the Institute for Public Representation. He also interned on the D.C. district court, in the chambers of the Honorable Gladys Kessler.

Bradley served as a 2023-24 Georgetown Law Blume Public Interest Leader in Residence and is serving as a 2024-25 Harvard Law School Wasserstein Fellow. He is on the Advisory Board of the People’s Parity Project. And he is a college and career mentor to students in Baltimore City public high schools.

Bradley’s writing has appeared in a variety of legal publications, including the Georgetown Law Journal, the Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law & Policy, Law360, and SCOTUSblog. He enjoys arguing for hyphenation of phrasal adjectives and against two spaces after a period. Bradley’s non-law interests include woodworking, collecting vinyl (and DJing), crossword puzzles, the cosmos, and jumping off of things into water.

Bradley is a member of the District of Columbia and New York Bars.