Shirley LaVarco is an attorney at KLLF. Before joining the firm, Shirley worked as a staff attorney at Civil Rights Corps and the National Police Accountability Project, where she represented survivors of police violence in federal court and partnered with community organizers on campaigns for policy change. 

Shirley is a graduate of NYU School of Law, where she was an Arthur Garfield Hays Civil Liberties Fellow, a Birnbaum Women's Leadership Center Fellow, and an AnBryce Scholar. She also served on the NYU Law Review. 

As a law student, Shirley interned with the Legal Aid Society, where she assisted with class action litigation on behalf of New Yorkers wrongfully held in prison past their release dates, as well as with the National Center for Law and Economic Justice, where she helped represent a class of people wrongfully denied public benefits. In addition, Shirley worked with the ACLU's Capital Punishment Project to help represent prisoners on death row, and with the Parole Preparation Project and NYU's Racial Justice Clinic to represent individuals seeking parole after serving decades in New York State prisons. 

In her free time, you can find Shirley at a yoga class, studying Farsi, or (most often) fawning over her two cats.