Alyssa Lareau

SENIOR COUNSEL

Alyssa Lareau (she/her) joined Wardenski P.C. as Senior Counsel in November 2025. Alyssa’s litigation practice focuses on LGBTQ+ rights.

Before joining the firm, Alyssa served as a Trial Attorney in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice from 2009 to 2025, where she worked in the Division’s Special Litigation Section and Federal Coordination and Compliance Section. Alyssa co-chaired the Civil Rights Division’s LGBTQI+ Working Group from 2015 to 2022.

Earlier in her career, Alyssa was a litigation associate at Fried Frank and a law clerk for Judge Anne E. Thompson in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey.

Alyssa is admitted to practice in New York, the District of Columbia, and Massachusetts. She is based in the firm’s New York office and works remotely from Maryland.