Prof. Anita Hill (Heller) has joined the Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll Civil Rights and Employment Practice group of counsel, according to the firm's website.

Partner and Head of the Civil Rights and Employment Practice group Joseph M. Sellers stated in a July 21 press release from the firm that the firm was "honored and excited" to have Hill working with them.

"Outrageous discriminatory acts still routinely take place in everyday life," said Sellers.

"Anita's extensive civil rights experience and broad network of contacts will allow us to quickly identify wrongdoing and seek redress for victims."

Hill declined a request for an interview, but did say that she wanted to clear any "misconception[s]" that she would be leaving the University.

"I will not be leaving Brandeis," said Hill.

"I will remain here on the faculty at a full-time position."

In an email to the Justice, Hill wrote that she will "be working with Cohen Milstein as [her] responsibilities to Brandeis permit."

In the press release, Hill described the firm as "prestigious and committed" and said that she "look[s] forward" to joining Cohen Milstein to "fight race and gender discrimination of all kinds."

According to the University's website, Hill, who is a professor of social policy, law and women's studies, first started her law career as an associate with Wald, Harkrader & Ross, a Washington D.C. law firm.

She became special counsel to the assistant secretary of the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights in 1981.

She then worked as adviser to the chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission from 1982 to 1983.

She then taught at as an assistant professor at Oral Roberts University until 1986, when she joined the faculty of the University of Oklahoma College of Law.

She also served as a visitng professor at the University of California's Institute for the Study of Social Change and Brandeis University's Women's Studies Program.

She then became a faculty member of the Heller School for Social Policy and Management.

Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll specializes in antitrust, securities fraud, investor protection, civil rights, human rights, consumer protection and unsafe products, employee benefits and public client cases.

The practice holds offices in Washington D.C., New York, Philadelphia, Chicago and Florida.