BGL sponsored the 2024 Incapacity Rights Maryland Breaking Obstacles Award Gala, honoring our shared mission of furthering the rights of Marylanders with disabilities. Incoming DRM Board President Jessie Weber, Jamie Strawbridge, and Kayle Hill attended the occasion. – Cyber Tech

Brown, Goldstein & Levy attorneys Jessie Weber and Jamie Strawbridge, and authorized assistant/paralegal Kayle Hill attended the 2024 Breaking Obstacles Awards Gala, hosted by Incapacity Rights Maryland (DRM) on the American Visionary Arts Museum on September 26. The annual gala is DRM’s signature celebration to honor visionary leaders who additional the rights of Marylanders with disabilities. The occasion raises cash to assist Marylanders with disabilities in search of entry to vital authorized providers. This yr’s gala was significantly particular, as Jessie was launched because the incoming board president of DRM.

BGL proudly sponsored this yr’s gala, honoring a long-time custom of sponsorship and assist for the occasion, DRM’s work, and our shared mission of uplifting individuals with disabilities throughout the state. As attorneys, Jessie and Jamie are fierce advocates for individuals with disabilities throughout america. Jessie has served on the DRM board since 2021. At BGL, Jessie makes use of her experience in civil rights regulation to information her purchasers in a spread of authorized points, together with incapacity rights. Jamie is a seasoned trial and appellate lawyer who has taken on complicated and high-impact incapacity rights circumstances since becoming a member of BGL in 2020. In her function as a authorized assistant/paralegal, Kayle is instrumental in guaranteeing our attorneys are finest geared up to acquire justice for his or her purchasers. Kayle is a passionate incapacity rights advocate, whether or not supporting attorneys on a case or in her spare time.

This yr’s gala honored 4 award winners for his or her advocacy and management in advancing incapacity rights in Maryland. Tammy Duckworth, U.S. Senator for Illinois, obtained the Judith Heumann Champion of Justice Award, and Clarence Lam, Maryland state senator, obtained the Public Coverage Management Award. Liz Bowie, schooling reporter for The Baltimore Banner, obtained the Excellence in Journalism Award. Lastly, the regulation agency of Mayer Brown obtained the Excellent Authorized Advocacy Award. 

BGL is a nationwide chief in breaking down boundaries confronted by individuals with disabilities throughout the nation. We’re proud to face alongside organizations like DRM, and others, that work to make sure that all applications, providers and alternatives are totally accessible to all individuals, as required by the People with Disabilities Act and different legal guidelines. We take immense satisfaction in our high-profile, high-impact incapacity rights circumstances, which our skilled attorneys litigate in trial and appellate courts throughout the nation. We additionally take immense satisfaction in our illustration of individuals with disabilities and their households.

Be taught extra about our incapacity rights observe right here.

ABOUT JESSIE WEBER

Jessie enjoys serving to purchasers navigate a various vary of adverse authorized points, with a deal with civil rights, together with incapacity and LGBTQ+ rights, employment regulation, together with wage and hour circumstances, and appellate litigation. Jessie is effectively versed in each complicated litigation and negotiations and enjoys utilizing a spread of instruments to acquire justice for her purchasers. Be taught extra about Jessie right here. 

ABOUT JAMIE STRAWBRIDGE

Jamie Strawbridge’s observe consists of circumstances involving civil rights, incapacity rights, housing discrimination, and business litigation. Be taught extra about Jamie right here.

ABOUT DISABILITY RIGHTS MARYLAND

Incapacity Rights Maryland (DRM), a non-profit 501(c)(3) group, is Maryland’s designated Safety & Advocacy company (previously referred to as “Maryland Incapacity Regulation Heart”). DRM is federally mandated to advance the civil rights of individuals with disabilities. DRM offers free authorized providers to Marylanders of any age with all sorts of disabilities (developmental, mental, psychiatric, bodily, sensory, studying, traumatic mind harm), who stay in services, locally or who’re homeless. Extra about DRM.

ABOUT BROWN, GOLDSTEIN & LEVY

Based in 1982, Brown, Goldstein & Levy is a regulation agency based mostly in Baltimore, Maryland, with an workplace in Washington, DC. The agency is nationally acknowledged in all kinds of observe areas, together with complicated 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 a long time of expertise and passionate, efficient advocacy to your battle for justice.