Anthony Could, Lauren DiMartino, and Monica Basche attended FreeState Justice’s Annual Sundown Soirée. BGL was a proud sponsor of the occasion to rejoice Delight Month, our dedication to LGBTQIA+ rights, and long-standing partnership with the group. – Cyber Tech

Brown, Goldstein & Levy attorneys Anthony Could, Lauren DiMartino, and Monica Basche attended the 2024 FreeState Justice Sundown Soirée, on Could thirty first at The Storage at R Home. This yr’s Sundown Soirée theme was “Shine Vivid!”  included wonderful performances by native LGBTQIA+ artists all through the night time, and honored Ebony Thompson, Baltimore’s first girl and first brazenly LGBTQ+ Metropolis Solicitor. The occasion serves as FreeState Justice’s kickoff celebration for Delight Month. Delight Month, which is widely known yearly in June, was established to rejoice and uplift LGBTQIA+ voices and name consideration to the continued pursuit of justice for the LGBTQIA+ group. Delight Month happens yearly in June as a result of the Stonewall Riots, which many view as the start of the fashionable LGBTQIA+ motion, occurred in June 1969. 

BGL was a proud sponsor of the Sundown Soireé, in help of FreeState Justice’s important work to enhance the lives of Maryland’s LGBTQIA+ group by means of free authorized providers, legislative advocacy and training and outreach applications. FreeState Justice is the one statewide LGBTQIA+ advocacy group working in each authorized providers and coverage advocacy—each of which offer crucial developments towards a Maryland the place all LGBTQIA+ persons are free to stay authentically and free from discrimination. BGL associate Jessie Weber beforehand served on FreeState Justice’s Board of Administrators and legal professional Lauren DiMartino now volunteers as a member of the Packages Committee. 

We’re proud companions of FreeState Justice in a lot of our personal work at BGL to offer professional bono illustration to transgender people searching for identify and authorized gender id adjustments and asylum safety. We additionally present authorized illustration for plaintiffs going through varied forms of LGBTQ+ discrimination. In April 2023, we filed Chelsea Gilliam, et al., v. Maryland Division of Public Security and Correctional Companies, et al., a case by which we symbolize transgender ladies who’re or have been incarcerated in males’s correctional amenities the place they’ve skilled sexual assault, denial of hormone therapy, and ongoing harassment. In December 2023, we have been proud to acquire a momentary restraining order (TRO) for one at present incarcerated consumer, Chloe Gray, requiring, amongst different issues, that jail officers video file every administration of hormone therapy to make sure well timed and constant provision of needed medical care. In 2022, we obtained a federal district court docket victory on behalf of a homosexual worker who challenged Catholic Reduction Companies’ withdrawal of medical health insurance advantages for his husband.

BGL has been constantly acknowledged for our dedication to LGBTQIA+ rights. The Nationwide Legislation Journal and Elite Attorneys chosen BGL because the nation’s “Civil Rights Legislation Agency of the 12 months” for 2018. Our companions are acknowledged yearly as the most effective by Finest Attorneys and Tremendous Attorneys, with Finest Attorneys awarding BGL’s Civil Rights observe with its highest rating and even citing considered one of our legal professionals as their Civil Rights “Lawyer of the 12 months.”

ABOUT ANTHONY MAY

Anthony J. Could has represented shoppers in quite a lot of advanced litigation issues together with helping staff with disabilities in acquiring accessible expertise and lodging within the office, representing people who’ve been wrongfully convicted, business litigation disputes, and preventing office discrimination primarily based on sexual orientation. Learn extra about Anthony.

ABOUT LAUREN DIMARTINO

Lauren DiMartino joined Brown, Goldstein & Levy to symbolize shoppers throughout varied areas of civil rights regulation, together with honest housing, training and incapacity rights, authorities misconduct, and office discrimination. Her observe additionally contains appeals and business litigation. Learn extra about Lauren.

ABOUT MONICA BASCHE

Monica Basche represents shoppers in civil rights circumstances, together with incapacity rights, housing discrimination, employment discrimination, and prisoners’ rights. She additionally has expertise with business litigation and enterprise disputes, together with breach of contract, enterprise torts, and Randolph-Sheppard Act circumstances. Learn extra about Monica.

ABOUT BROWN, GOLDSTEIN & LEVY

Based in 1982, Brown, Goldstein & Levy is a regulation agency primarily based in Baltimore, Maryland, with an workplace in Washington, DC. The agency is nationally acknowledged in all kinds of observe areas, together with advanced civil and business litigation, civil rights, well being care, household regulation, and prison protection. Above all else, Brown, Goldstein & Levy is a client-centered regulation agency that brings many years of expertise and passionate, efficient advocacy to your battle for justice.