Brown, Goldstein & Levy proudly commemorates Disability Pride Month this July. We honor the July 26, 1990, passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), applaud the generations of individuals with disabilities and disability rights advocates who have fought for equality and visibility, and celebrate the progress that has been made toward that end.
Unfortunately, individuals with both visible and invisible disabilities continue to encounter obstacles to accessible information, technology, housing, education, health care, employment, transportation, and civic participation.
At BGL, we remain dedicated to breaking down these barriers and advocating for equal access and inclusion. Our attorneys work to ensure that programs and services offered by private companies and public entities are fully accessible to people with disabilities, as required by the ADA and other federal and state laws. We take immense pride in our high-profile, high-impact disability rights cases, which our experienced attorneys litigate in trial and appellate courts across the country.
Recently, BGL filed a federal class action lawsuit on behalf of the National Federation of the Blind of Texas and blind and print-disabled voters in Harris County, Texas, seeking accessible vote-by-mail ballots. In another federal class action, the firm is advocating for families seeking to prevent the U.S. Department of Justice from unlawfully obtaining protected health records from hospitals across the country. We also represent the National Federation of the Blind in a lawsuit challenging the Trump-Vance administration‘s delays in implementing critical website accessibility regulations.
For almost four decades, we have represented the National Federation of the Blind and its members. Over that decades-long campaign, we have won significant, groundbreaking victories in cases ranging from employment discrimination to website accessibility to prisoner rights. Our efforts have shaped how courts nationwide interpret the ADA and helped to empower our clients.
We provide several unique resources that demonstrate our commitment to disability rights within and beyond our communities. We offer Inclusivity, a strategic consulting firm to support businesses, organizations, and government agencies that want to achieve real inclusion of people with disabilities in their workforces and communities. We also offer a disability rights fellowship, a highly competitive, one-to-two-year fellowship available to law school graduates with disabilities.
We celebrate diversity, inclusion, and accessibility to foster a collaborative, creative environment in which every person can use their strengths to their fullest and achieve the best results for our clients. Earlier this year, BGL was named to the prestigious Forbes Accessibility 200 list in recognition of our unwavering commitment to advancing accessibility and protecting the rights of people with disabilities. We are proud that the National Law Journal and Elite Lawyers selected Brown, Goldstein & Levy as the nation’s “Civil Rights Law Firm of the Year” for 2018, and that in 2023 we officially topped the Best Lawyers charts, with the most Civil Rights Law attorneys recognized across the Best Lawyers in America and Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch lists. With 25 and 17 recognitions respectively, BGL topped a list of only 15 firms across the United States with recognized lawyers in both publications.
ABOUT BROWN, GOLDSTEIN & LEVY
Founded in 1982, Brown, Goldstein & Levy is a law firm based in Baltimore, Maryland, with an office in Washington, DC. 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.