Today, Disability Law United announced a resolution for client Kendrick W., a transgender employee of a Bay Area start-up company who was denied insurance coverage for transition-related surgery due to an exclusion in his employer’s health insurance plan. Kendrick contacted Disability…
Welcome, Amis!
Disability Law United extends a warm welcome to Amis Pan, our summer law clerk. Amis is a member of the Berkeley Law class of 2018 and is working in Disability Law United’s California office this summer.
Daily Journal Selects Julie Wilensky for 2016 Top 40 Under 40 List
Director of Disability Law United’s CA office Julie Wilensky was recently selected by the Daily Journal as one of 2016’s Top 40 Under 40 lawyers in California. In a profile published on May 18, the Daily Journal highlighted Julie’s litigation…
Court Grants Final Approval of Hotel Transportation Class Settlement
On May 3, 2016, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California granted final approval of a class action settlement and certified a settlement class in Disability Law United et al. v. RLJ Lodging Trust. RLJ owns…
HB 2: It’s Much More than Bathrooms
By Julie Wilensky, Director of the California Office of the Disability Law United and member, National Employment Lawyers Association (NELA) On March 26, the North Carolina General Assembly convened a special legislative session to preempt a local ordinance passed by the…
DU Civil Rights Clinic and Disability Law United receive Award for Excellence in a Public Interest Project.
We are very excited to announce that the Clinical Legal Education Association today presented the Civil Rights Clinic at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law and Disability Law United with an award for the recent settlement in Decoteau…
Daily Journal Selects Julie Wilensky as a 2016 Top Woman Lawyer in California
Julie Wilensky, Director of Disability Law United’s California Office, has been named to the Daily Journal‘s list of Top Women Lawyers in California for 2016. The Journal highlighted Julie’s successful work on behalf of same-sex spouses wrongfully denied spousal pension…
Disability Law United Comments on Sweeping Anti-LGBT Law in North Carolina
Disability Law United attorney Julie Wilensky was quoted in an article in Mother Jones and ProPublica on the far-reaching impact of the so-called “Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act,” North Carolina’s sweeping new anti-LGBT law that mandates discrimination against transgender…
Good Press Regarding the Decoteau Case
Our Decoteau case challenging the lack of outdoor exercise for inmates in solitary confinement at the Colorado State Penitentiary was the focus of an article on clinical legal education in The National Jurist. We love working with Civil Rights Clinic students…
Court Grants Final Approval of Hotel Transportation Settlement — Disability Law United v. Ashford Hospitality Trust
On March 22, 2016, Magistrate Judge Donna M. Ryu of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California granted final approval to a class action settlement in Disability Law United et al. v. Ashford Hospitality Trust, Inc. Ashford…