Alisa Randell (she/her) is Managing Attorney of Public Counsel’s housing justice initiatives, overseeing collaborative efforts across Public Counsel to advance housing justice. She leads the Homelessness Prevention Law Project’s Affirmative Litigation Team, which aims to vindicate the rights of tenants to live in safe, well-cared-for, secure housing, free of harassment and discrimination. The unit focuses on litigation addressing a range of housing-related injustices, including habitability concerns, illegal lockouts, constructive evictions, discriminatory housing practices, and tenant harassment.
Alisa joined Public Counsel in 2018 as a staff attorney with Public Counsel’s Shriver eviction defense project, and served as the Shriver Supervising Attorney from 2021 to 2023. Having litigated hundreds of eviction cases and taken many of those cases to trial and jury verdict, she regularly provides litigation support and mentorship to the attorneys in the Homelessness Prevention Law Project. She also oversees a significant portion of the team’s appellate litigation and writs.
Alisa has been a leader in fostering cross-project collaboration within Public Counsel on tenants’ rights policy advocacy and litigation. During the pandemic and afterward, Alisa worked on litigation in which Public Counsel intervened to protect and uphold ground-breaking pandemic-era tenant protections. She also participates in coalition spaces like the Keep LA Housed Coalition.
Alisa continues to serve as a litigation partner and resource for in-house lawyers engaging in trials and appeals, as well as pro bono lawyers handling housing cases and housing-related impact litigation. She is a graduate of the University of Southern California Gould School of Law and New York University.
