John P. Relman is the Founding Partner of Relman Colfax. For more than 30 years, he has represented individual plaintiffs, cities, and civil rights organizations in many of the country’s most important civil rights cases. Widely recognized as one of the nation’s leading civil rights lawyers, John has pioneered groundbreaking fair housing and fair lending cases that have expanded the scope and reach of the Fair Housing Act. John founded the firm in 1999. Before that he served for 10 years as Director of the Fair Housing Project at the Washington Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights. Early in his career, John was lead counsel in the groundbreaking Denny’s Restaurant class action, which resulted in a settlement of more than $17 million for minority customers discriminated against at the chain’s restaurants. ohn filed the first reverse redlining cases to be brought on behalf of major U.S. cities against financial institutions that targeted minority communities for predatory loans.