Anthony Might, Lauren DiMartino, and Monica Basche attended FreeState Justice’s Annual Sundown Soirée. BGL was a proud sponsor of the occasion to have a good time Delight Month, our dedication to LGBTQIA+ rights, and long-standing partnership with the group. – Go Well being Professional

Brown, Goldstein & Levy attorneys Anthony Might, Lauren DiMartino, and Monica Basche attended the 2024 FreeState Justice Sundown Soirée, on Might thirty first at The Storage at R Home. This 12 months’s Sundown Soirée theme was “Shine Vibrant!”  included wonderful performances by native LGBTQIA+ artists all through the evening, and honored Ebony Thompson, Baltimore’s first lady and first overtly 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 have a good time and uplift LGBTQIA+ voices and name consideration to the continuing 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 assist of FreeState Justice’s very important work to enhance the lives of Maryland’s LGBTQIA+ group via free authorized companies, legislative advocacy and training and outreach packages. FreeState Justice is the one statewide LGBTQIA+ advocacy group working in each authorized companies and coverage advocacy—each of which offer essential developments towards a Maryland the place all LGBTQIA+ individuals are free to dwell authentically and free from discrimination. BGL accomplice Jessie Weber beforehand served on FreeState Justice’s Board of Administrators and lawyer Lauren DiMartino now volunteers as a member of the Applications Committee. 

We’re proud companions of FreeState Justice in a lot of our personal work at BGL to supply professional bono illustration to transgender people in search of title and authorized gender id adjustments and asylum safety. We additionally present authorized illustration for plaintiffs dealing with numerous kinds 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 during 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 remedy, and ongoing harassment. In December 2023, we had been proud to acquire a short-term restraining order (TRO) for one at present incarcerated consumer, Chloe Gray, requiring, amongst different issues, that jail officers video document every administration of hormone remedy 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 insurance advantages for his husband.

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

ABOUT ANTHONY MAY

Anthony J. Might has represented shoppers in quite a lot of advanced litigation issues together with aiding workers 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 based mostly on sexual orientation. Learn extra about Anthony.

ABOUT LAUREN DIMARTINO

Lauren DiMartino joined Brown, Goldstein & Levy to symbolize shoppers throughout numerous areas of civil rights regulation, together with truthful housing, training and incapacity rights, authorities misconduct, and office discrimination. Her apply 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 based mostly in Baltimore, Maryland, with an workplace in Washington, DC. The agency is nationally acknowledged in all kinds of apply areas, together with advanced civil and business litigation, civil rights, well being care, household regulation, and felony 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 struggle for justice.