Phil Telfeyan

Trial attorney with the Office of Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices in the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice

Phil Telfeyan is a trial attorney with the Office of Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices in the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice. He investigates charges of discrimination brought under the anti-discrimination provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. § 1324b.

Mr. Telfeyan joined the Department of Justice in 2009 through the Attorney General’s Honors Program, immediately after serving one year as a law clerk on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit during the court’s 2008–09 term. Mr. Telfeyan received his law degree with honors from Harvard Law School in 2008 and his bachelor’s degree with high honors in Philosophy and Government from Harvard University in 2005. Mr. Telfeyan’s bar membership is in California, where he was born and raised, and where his parents still live in Sacramento. He is also a member of the bar for the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.