Brown, Goldstein & Levy Managing Partner Jessie Weber was recently quoted in The Daily Record, where she described Trump’s new executive orders targeting the legal profession as an “unprecedented attack” and encouraged other law firms to challenge the Administration’s assault on the Constitution and rule of law.
BGL proudly joined the amicus briefs filed over the past two weeks in support of Perkins Coie, Jenner & Block, LLP, and Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, LLP, law firms that are challenging the Administration’s unconstitutional and retaliatory Executive Orders seeking to strip them of security clearances and government contracts, and bar them from federal property.
The Daily Record reported that the majority of the leading Maryland-based law firms they reached out to for comment on these threats to the legal industry did not comment or respond, and also reported that many Maryland-based law firms did not sign the amicus brief supporting Perkins Coie.
“It’s really surprising and troubling to see these big firms cave,” Jessie said of Paul Weiss, Skadden and other firms that reached deals with the administration rather than challenging them, as reported by TDR. “It’s mind-boggling, at this moment, that lawyers are having difficulty finding their voice.”
To read the full story from The Daily Record, click here.
ABOUT JESSIE WEBER
In addition to leading BGL as managing partner, Jessie Weber enjoys helping clients navigate a diverse range of difficult legal issues, with a focus on civil rights, including disability and LGBTQ rights, employment law, including wage and hour cases, and appellate litigation. Jessie’s successes include obtaining a $1.25 million settlement for a class of Baltimore City school bus drivers and attendants wrongly denied their full pay, securing an injunction requiring the Maryland Board of Elections to make absentee voting accessible to voters with print disabilities, and winning an arbitration award of more than $250,000 on behalf of an African-American former Hooters server who was fired from her job because of Hooters’ racially discriminatory image policy. Learn more about Jessie here.
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.