Mikaela A. Phillips joined the Firm in September 2025. Ms. Phillips’s practice focuses on employment discrimination and retaliation, civil rights violations, and sexual harassment and assault litigation.

Prior to joining Charlson Bredehoft Cohen Brown & Nadelhaft, Ms. Phillips served as a law clerk to the Honorable Cleo E. Powell of the Supreme Court of Virginia and the Honorable William T. Newman, Jr. of the Arlington County Circuit Court. Before her clerkships, Ms. Phillips was a Civil Rights Litigation Fellow at a firm in Washington, D.C., where she represented clients in discrimination, retaliation, and whistleblower matters.

Ms. Phillips earned her J.D., cum laude, from William & Mary Law School, where she served as Senior Articles Editor of the William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice, a Fellow in the Legal Practice Program, and Research Assistant to Professor Timothy Zick. During law school, she interned at Victor M. Glasberg & Associates, where she primarily worked on Section 1983 litigation, and at the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Ms. Phillips holds a B.A., summa cum laude, in Political Science from The George Washington University.

When she is not working, Ms. Phillips enjoys wheel-throwing pottery, spending time with her Australian Shepherd, trying new recipes, and traveling.