A past president of the progressive National Lawyers Guild, Erlinder leads a group of defense lawyers at the U.N.'s International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, which is trying the alleged leaders of the 1994 genocide.
Septemba 8 Mwaka 2011,Mtikila, alifungua kesi ya Kikatiba katika Mahakama Kuu Kanda ya Dar es Salaam,akiomba Mahakama hiyo itoe amri ya Kuzuia jengo la Mahakama ya Rufaa lililopo eneo la Kivukoni Front, lisiuzwe kwa mmiliki wa Hoteli ya Kempinski.