Erez Reuveni is a senior counsel at Democracy Forward, a national legal organization that advances democracy and social progress through litigation, policy and public education, and regulatory engagement.

From 2010 to 2025, Mr. Reuveni served in numerous roles in the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Civil Division and Office of Immigration Litigation (OIL). Most recently, he served as Acting Deputy Director at OIL within DOJ’s Civil Division, where he oversaw all litigation implicating immigration enforcement arising in the federal district courts. Previously, as a Senior Counsel and Counsel in the office of the Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division, Mr. Reuveni advised Civil Division leadership and agency clients on immigration-related litigation and policy matters. He also assisted in oversight of nearly 400 attorneys in all sections of OIL, including supervision of high profile cases arising in federal district courts and petitions for review challenging agency decisions in the federal courts of appeal. Over the course of his 15-year DOJ career, across multiple administrations, Mr. Reuveni personally handled or supervised teams handling many of the federal government’s most complex, highest-profile, and consequential immigration cases in the federal district and appellate courts, including constitutional, statutory, and regulatory challenges to agency action and administration priorities.