Brown, Goldstein & Levy Managing Partner Jessie Weber was featured in an April 29 panel discussion about how lawyers are fighting to protect democracy, and what everyone can do to help, hosted by the Yale Law School Alumni Network to Strengthen Democracy.
The panel of Yale Law School alumni discussed some of the initiatives currently underway to protect democracy and the rule of law. They also explained how others can help with these efforts as “force multipliers.”
Jessie’s fellow panelists included National Legal Director of the ACLU Cecilia Wang, Executive Director of Protect Democracy Ian Bassin, Senior Legal Advisor of Democracy Forward Carrie Flaxman, Founder of the International Refugee Assistance Project Rebecca Heller, and Managing Partner of the Chandra Law Firm Subodh Chandra, who led the session.
Many lawyers have been struggling to determine what they can do to address the attacks on the rule of law inflicted by the current administration. Jessie and other panelists discussed ways their firms and organizations are working to directly challenge the attacks and offered calls to action for listeners on concrete ways they can help with these and other efforts.
Recently, Jessie was featured on an episode of Slate’s podcast Amicus with Dahlia Lithwick, titled “A Lawyer’s Guide to Not Caving to the President,” in which she discussed the impact of law firms’ response to the Trump administration’s executive orders targeting the legal industry and how lawyers can fight back.
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.
ABOUT THE YALE LAW SCHOOL ALUMNI NETWORK TO STRENGTHEN DEMOCRACY
This group is made up of Yale Law School alumni coming together to strengthen democracy and to protect the rule of law. Their goals are to build an alumni community to educate and inform on key issues through virtual and in person events, connect needs with resources by providing concrete ways to support efforts, organizations, and individuals that are value-aligned, and serve as an information hub for knowledge sharing and active engagement. They are not associated with the Yale Law School.
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.