For the fourth consecutive year, Chelsea Crawford was named to the Best Lawyers in America: Ones to Watch Guide. Chelsea was recognized in six separate categories.

Brown, Goldstein & Levy partner Chelsea Crawford was named to the 2025 Best Lawyers in America: Ones to Watch Guide. This is the  fourth consecutive year that she has been included in the guide. Chelsea was recognized for her hard work in six categories: Civil Rights Law, Commercial Litigation, Criminal Defense: General Practice, Labor and Employment Law – Employee, Litigation – Labor and Employment, and Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs.

In the past year, Chelsea has received accolades from a number of various publications, including being named as one of The Baltimore Banner’s Emerging Leaders, a distinction only reserved for 13 people in 2024. Chelsea was the only attorney named to the list, which highlights community leaders “determined to be rising leaders driving change throughout Maryland” who have shown a personal commitment to serving the community. She was also named to Lawdragon’s 500 Leading Lawyers in America list for 2024 in the civil rights and wrongful conviction categories.

Twenty Brown, Goldstein & Levy lawyers were recognized across the full edition of Best Lawyers this year on the Best Lawyers in America and Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch lists, with two highlighted on the Lawyers of the Year list. Click here for a full list of recognized attorneys.

About Chelsea Crawford

Chelsea Jones Crawford has extensive experience representing individuals and entities in complex civil matters, including federal civil rights litigation, serious personal injury and wrongful death, and commercial disputes. Learn more about Chelsea here.

About Best Lawyers

Best Lawyers is widely regarded—by both the profession and the public—as the nation’s most credible measure of legal integrity and distinction. Recognition by Best Lawyers symbolizes excellence in practice. Inclusion in Best Lawyers is based on a peer-review survey of more than 8.2 million confidential evaluations by lawyers recognized as the best in their fields. 

About Brown, Goldstein & Levy

Founded in 1982, Brown, Goldstein & Levy is a law firm based in Baltimore, Maryland, with an office in Washington, D.C. The firm is nationally recognized in a wide variety of practice areas, including complex civil and commercial litigation, civil rights, health care, family law, and criminal defense. Above all else, Brown, Goldstein & Levy is a client-centered law firm that brings decades of experience and passionate, effective advocacy to your fight for justice.