Adeel Mangi

Experience

Adeel has litigated numerous high-profile civil rights cases. These included closely watched religious freedom cases that involved two different Muslim communities denied permission to build mosques in Bernards Township and Bayonne. These lawsuits were the subject of seven editorials in New Jersey’s largest newspaper and were covered extensively in the national press. Both cases eventually resulted in settlements under which the mosques were approved and the municipalities involved paid significant compensation to the affected Islamic groups. 

Adeel also tried a lawsuit involving the death of a mentally ill Black inmate who was alleged to have been killed by white prison guards in a retaliatory beating. The resulting landmark settlement included an unprecedented provision requiring New York to install a comprehensive network of video recording cameras and microphones throughout the Sullivan Correctional Facility. 

Adeel has also filed a series of amicus briefs on behalf of a coalition of cross-faith religious groups on issues including LGBTQ+ civil rights. 

Education and Qualifications

Adeel received an LL.M. from Harvard Law School, where he was a Kennedy Memorial Scholar. He qualified as a British Barrister at Law as a Member of the Honorable Society of Lincoln's Inn, and holds a First Class Degree in Law from the University of Oxford (Pembroke College).

Adeel is admitted to practice in the following courts and jurisdictions:

• U.S. Supreme Court
• U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit; Second Circuit; Third Circuit; Fourth Circuit; Eighth Circuit; Ninth Circuit; Federal Circuit
• U.S. District Court, Southern, Eastern and Northern Districts of New York; District of New Jersey
• New York
• New Jersey

Adeel is fluent in Urdu and is conversational in Hindi and Sindhi.