Allison Mahoney

Allison Mahoney is the Founder and Managing Attorney at ALM Law, where she represents survivors of sexual abuse, image-based sexual abuse, and intimate partner violence as well as children harmed while in the custody of child welfare systems. She has over a decade’s worth of experience litigating on behalf of survivors of abuse and civil rights violations.

Mahoney began her legal career at O’Melveny & Myers LLP, where she was a member of the firm’s pro bono committee and represented survivors of sexual abuse and intimate partner violence from around the world. She was later a prosecutor in New York City and investigated sex crimes, public corruption, and human trafficking rings. For the next several years, Mahoney worked at Lawyers for Children, Inc. and represented children in foster care in New York City in various family court proceedings. As LFC’s Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation Project Attorney, she carried a specialized caseload and served as the in-house legal expert for cases involving those sensitive issues. Mahoney was most recently the Interim Deputy Director at A Better Childhood, where she investigated child welfare systems across the country, formed partnerships with local organizations and national law firms, and filed class action lawsuits on behalf of foster children, alleging violations of their civil and federal statutory rights. She also was the founder of Estorie Agency, which created communications and public relations strategies, content, and partnerships for organizations and advocates working to promote justice and improve wellbeing.

Today, Mahoney is on the Board of Directors at Response, an organization that works with survivors of domestic and sexual abuse in the Roaring Fork Valley in Colorado, and she is on the Board of Directors at YouthZone, a diversion and advocacy program for youth in Colorado. Mahoney served as the Secretary of the New York City Bar Association’s Children & the Law Committee and is the Chair of Fordham University’s School of Law Government and Public Interest Affinity Group. She was also part of a working group to reimagine intimate partner violence services for abusers. The goal of the working group was to change abusers’ behaviors and stop the cycle of trauma.

Mahoney is admitted to practice in New York; Washington, D.C.; Colorado, and Illinois.