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Nimra H. Azmi

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T 212.402.4072 New York
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Nimra Azmi defends the rights of journalists and media outlets to investigate, report, and publish. She has represented journalists and publishers in lawsuits and claims involving defamation, SLAPP, FOIA, invasion of privacy, and right of publicity. She advises clients on how to best leverage public records laws to gain access to materials critical for their reporting.

Nimra also maintains a robust counseling and pre-publication review practice in which she mitigates defamation and copyright risks for publishers, documentarians, podcasters, and reporters, including for clients like Bloomberg News, VICE, The New York Post, The Times (UK), The Sun (UK), Sony, Spotify, Zeteo, and Discovery. She also completed a secondment at NBC News, where she counseled journalists, producers, and editors across NBC platforms on pre-publication risks.

Prior to joining Davis Wright Tremaine, Nimra was a litigator at a major law firm and then at a civil rights nonprofit, where she led litigation teams in civil rights litigation before district and appellate courts on matters of national importance like the Muslim Ban.

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Admitted to Practice

  • New York, 2016
  • District of Columbia, 2019
  • U.S. District Court, District of Columbia, 2019
  • U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan, 2022
  • U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York, 2021
  • U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, 2020
  • U.S. District Court, Western District of New York, 2024
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, 4th Circuit, 2019

Education

  • J.D., Harvard Law School, 2015
    • Executive Editor, Harvard International Law Journal
    • President, Harvard Muslim Law Students Association
  • B.A., History, Barnard College, Columbia University, 2011, with distinction, cum laude
    • Dean's List, 2008-2011

Languages

  • Urdu, Hindi, and French

Background

    • Staff Attorney, Muslim Advocates, Washington, D.C., 2017-2020
    • Associate, Litigation, 2016-2017; Summer Associate, 2014 – Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP, New York, N.Y.
    • Litigation Intern, Program on Freedom of Religion and Belief, American Civil Liberties Union, Washington, D.C., 2013
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