Jessie Weber

Brown Goldstein & Levy

A career devoted to advancing social justice through tangible, hard-won legal victories has carried Jessie Weber to her role as managing partner at Brown, Goldstein & Levy LLP, where she leads a civil litigation practice with national reach. Her work centers on disability rights, fair housing, workplace justice and appellate litigation, and she has built a reputation for groundbreaking results that expand equal access for individuals with disabilities to voting, websites, government information and services, educational opportunities and healthcare.

Weber is equally at home in complex litigation and negotiation, and she has argued before the Fourth, Sixth, Ninth and D.C. circuit courts of appeals. Her recent successes include a $1.25 million settlement for a class of Baltimore City school bus drivers and attendants wrongly denied their full pay, an injunction requiring the Maryland Board of Elections to make absentee voting accessible to voters with print disabilities and a Ninth Circuit decision reinstating a jury verdict of more than $240,000 for blind students denied an equal educational opportunity by the Los Angeles Community College District. That ruling also clarified that individuals with disabilities are entitled to damages for lost opportunities caused by public entities’ discrimination.

Before joining the firm, Weber was a Francis D. Murnaghan Jr. Appellate Advocacy Fellow at the Public Justice Center, where she worked on issues affecting marginalized communities, and she previously clerked for Judge Catherine C. Blake of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. She serves as president of the board of Disability Rights Maryland and has previously served on the boards of the ACLU of Maryland and FreeState Justice, where she also served as board president. She earned her bachelor’s degree from Princeton University and her law degree from Yale Law School.

The law drew Weber because it offered a way to help people tangibly while advancing the goals of social justice movements, and it suited both her strengths and her passion for advocacy. The intellectual range of the work continues to energize her, since one matter may demand expertise in voting technology and the next in hospitality industry timekeeping. Her clients remain her greatest source of inspiration, particularly those who pursue years-long cases motivated not only by their own claims but by a determination to secure outcomes that will uplift many others.

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