Partner Eve Hill was featured by ABILITY Magazine as an “attorney with purpose,” discussing two major lawsuits in which she represents disabled and transgender individuals challenging discrimination.
These cases highlight “the deeply entrenched barriers disabled people face, particularly when compounded by homelessness, incarceration, and discrimination and the critical role that legal advocacy continues to play in challenging those systems,” the article states.
Eve spoke with reporter Jennifer Woodall at ABILITY Magazine about her work representing unhoused veterans with disabilities in a lawsuit against the Department of Veterans Affairs for its failure to provide permanent housing and services on its 380-acre campus in West Los Angeles. She also discussed an ongoing lawsuit against the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, in which she is representing transgender women who were held in men’s correctional facilities, suffered sexual assault, were denied hormone treatment, and received ongoing harassment because of their transgender status. Both cases expose systemic failures in federal and state institutions, jeopardizing the wellbeing of individuals and stripping them of their rights.
The ABILITY Magazine article put a spotlight on Eve’s longstanding commitment to advocating for those with disabilities. “As the Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law in 1990, civil rights lawyer Eve Hill was just beginning her legal career,” the article reads. “What followed was a decades-long commitment to advancing the rights of people with disabilities through litigation, public service, education and policy work.”
Eve Hill is one of the nation’s leading civil rights lawyers, known especially for her work with clients with disabilities and LGBTQ+ clients. She has been recognized by Law360 as one of just 12 “Titans of the Plaintiffs’ Bar” for 2023, as well as by Lawdragon as one of the 500 Leading Lawyers in America (2022, 2023, and 2024). Her wide-ranging experience complements Brown, Goldstein & Levy’s decades of dedication to high-impact disability rights cases and its advocacy on behalf of individuals with disabilities and their families. Eve also leads Inclusivity, BGL’s Strategic Consulting Group, which works with organizations to promote the education, engagement, and employment of people with disabilities. Learn more about Eve’s disability rights practice here.
ABILITY Magazine works to change public perception of what it means to have a disability by focusing on ability, shattering myths and stereotypes that surround disabilities, and bringing greater attention to the issues – showing that disability is part of the fabric of all our lives and shining a light on unconscious bias.
Read Eve’s full interview with ABILITY Magazine here.
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