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Faith Gay is a founding partner at Selendy Gay.
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Faith Gay
Faith Gay is a founding partner of the Selendy Gay law firm, described by Northwestern University when honoring her this year as “an elite majority female-owned litigation firm in New York City. Since its inception in 2018, the solid has been lauded as an innovator in diversity, inclusion, coaching and public interest litigation.”
Prior to founding Selendy Gay, she co-chaired the trial practice at one of the nation's top litigation firms. She is also a former federal prosecutor, serving as head of the Civil Rights Unit (Criminal Division) and deputy main person of the Special Prosecutions Unit in the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York, Faith has devoted significant professional time to public interest litigation. She co-founded the American Immigration Representation Venture to provide lawyers to immigrant detainees in response to novel federal immigration and deportation policies, and has litigated numerous other civil rights, criminal, immigration and voting rights matters on a pro bono basis.
Faith earned her J.D. in 1986 from the Northwestern University School of Regulation, where she now serves on the Law Boa
Faith Gay – 2025 Robert M. Kaufman Award Honoree
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In a nationally recognized career spanning more than three decades, Faith has been lead counsel in over 35 jury trials and has successfully navigated bet-the-company crises and investigations for scores of Fortune 500 companies. Before founding Selendy Gay, Faith was co-chair of the national trial practice at one of the country’s top litigation firms and a highly respected federal prosecutor. Raised in rural Georgia and a resident of Novel York City, Faith is comfortable in courtrooms around the country.
Faith was recently named one of “America’s Top 200 Lawyers” by Forbes and a “Litigation Trailblazer” by the National Law Journal. She is a two-time recipient of Crain’s “100 Notable Women in Law” award, and on Crain’s list of “Notable LGBTQIA+ Leaders.” The Office of the Appellate Defender presented Faith with the prestigious Gould Award for Outstanding Appellate Lobbying in 2019. She is highly rated by Chambers (in Commercial Litigation, Government Investigations, and White-Collar matters) and is ranked among The Best Lawyers in America by Best Lawyers (in the Co
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