Director of the Agency Department, Writers Guild of America, West
Secretary
Leila Azari is a 2008 graduate of New York University School of Law. At NYU, Leila participated in the Immigrant Rights Clinic, where she represented an immigrant restaurant worker in a wage-and-hour lawsuit and developed a campaign to eliminate collaboration between the New York City police department and federal immigration authorities. Â
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After law school, Leila practiced litigation for six years at the law firms of Latham & Watkins and Sacks, Glazier, Franklin & Lodise. At these firms, Leila obtained political asylum for a child from El Salvador fleeing persecution by gangs, as well as an Iranian woman who was persecuted on account of her Christian religion. Â
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Leila is currently the Director of the Agency Department at the Writers Guild of America, West, where she has worked for ten years. She practices labor law and enforces an industry-wide collective bargaining agreement on behalf of film and television writers.Â