Rachel Tuchman

Rachel Tuchman represents clients in significant and sensitive matters with a focus on claims concerning harassment and/or discrimination for individuals, companies, and educational institutions.

Rachel is skilled at guiding clients through acute crises and develops internal and external communications strategies; reviews compliance structures to identify other areas of risk; and revamps policies to ensure that issues that may have contributed to a crisis do not recur. Rachel spent over a year in-house at an Ivy League institution to advise on novel Title VI litigation, parallel congressional inquiries, and multiple federal investigations. Rachel has represented media corporations and financial institutions on the creation and implementation of policies to help ensure fair and unbiased workplaces and regularly conducts internal investigations related to these topics.

Rachel has represented an Ivy League University in multiple Title VI and Title IX lawsuits that successfully settled in mediation. Rachel’s representation of several former players in the National Women’s Soccer League who came forward about widespread sexual harassment and abuse in the league led to multiple investigations, including Sally Yates’s independent investigation on behalf of the U.S. Soccer Federation. Rachel was part of the trial team that successfully represented writer E. Jean Carroll in her sexual battery and defamation suit against Donald Trump, securing a $5 million jury verdict on her behalf after under three hours of deliberation. Rachel successfully represented Melanie Kohler, who was sued for defamation by a Hollywood director after sharing her #MeToo experience on social media. Rachel also advised an individual through the publication of her #MeToo story regarding former New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.

Rachel maintains a broad public interest practice that includes representing constitutional law scholars as amicus curiae opposing Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban before the U.S. Supreme Court. Rachel was a member of the legal team that reached a historic settlement agreement with the Florida State Board of Education, Florida Department of Education, and school districts that effectively nullified the most discriminatory impacts of Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” law. Rachel represented nine plaintiffs in a groundbreaking lawsuit against 24 white supremacists and neo-Nazis, bringing claims under the Ku Klux Klan Act and the Civil Rights Act based on their roles in organizing the racial and religious-based violence in Charlottesville during the summer of 2017.

Rachel clerked for the Honorable Nicholas G. Garaufis of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York and the Honorable Susan L. Carney of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Rachel is a graduate of Yale Law School, where as a member of the Yale Veterans Legal Service Clinic, she argued in the Federal Circuit to advocate for sexual assault survivors in the military. Prior to becoming a lawyer, she taught as a first-grade teacher in New York City. Rachel earned her B.A. from Amherst College.