Anthony Could, companion at Brown, Goldstein & Levy, introduced at a March 15 Equal Pay Day Symposium hosted by the College of Maryland Francis King Carey Faculty of Regulation Journal of Race, Faith, Gender & Class. The day-long Symposium was hosted in honor of the 60th anniversary of the Equal Pay Act, which prohibits discrimination on the premise of intercourse for fee of wages for equal work. The day’s program mentioned matters comparable to legislative initiatives across the Equal Pay Act on the state and federal degree, present pay gaps within the non-public sector and what legal professionals are doing to mitigate them, and pay gaps pertaining to race and gender.
Anthony, who’s a Maryland Carey Regulation alum and former Government Symposium Editor of the Journal, spoke on a three-person panel regarding current litigation involving the Equal Pay Act. Anthony was chosen to current based mostly on his expertise bringing an Equal Pay Act case in the US District Courtroom for the District of Maryland and the Supreme Courtroom of Maryland in Doe v. Catholic Aid Providers, a case by which he obtained a federal district court docket victory on behalf of a married homosexual worker who challenged Catholic Aid Providers’ withdrawal of medical health insurance advantages for his husband beneath Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, the Equal Pay Act, and the Maryland Equal Pay Act. The case was then despatched to the Supreme Courtroom of Maryland, the place Anthony argued and the Courtroom in the end decided the related distinctions between the state and federal Equal Pay Acts.
Anthony’s panel was one among 4 panels all through the day. The Symposium additionally featured a keynote deal with by Ms. Fatima Goss Graces, president of the Girls’s Nationwide Regulation Middle.
The Equal Pay Day Symposium was sponsored by The Girls’s Bar Affiliation and The Girls, Management & Equality Program.
At BGL, Anthony has constructed a follow devoted to representing purchasers 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, representing purchasers in business litigation disputes, and preventing office discrimination stemming from employers’ use of synthetic intelligence in addition to different types of employment discrimination, comparable to discrimination based mostly on sexual orientation.
Anthony has earned a few of the authorized business’s prime accolades. He was chosen to Lawdragon’s 500 Main Civil Rights and Plaintiff Employment Attorneys and Lawdragon’s 500 X – The Subsequent Era guides for 2023. Anthony was additionally named a Maryland Rising Star by Tremendous Attorneys and “One to Watch” by Greatest Layers in America for the sixth and third consecutive 12 months, respectively. He acquired The Each day Document’s Era J.D. Award in 2020. In 2019, he was honored because the Younger Lawyer of the Yr by the Maryland Volunteer Attorneys’ Service (MVLS), the place he serves on the Board of Administrators and as President of the Neighborhood Advocacy Community.
Thought-about an authority within the rising intersection of AI and employment discrimination legislation, Anthony has written and introduced extensively on the position of synthetic intelligence within the office, together with on the 2023 Maryland State Bar Affiliation Authorized Summit and the California State College, Northridge Assistive Expertise convention. He’s additionally scheduled to talk extra on this matter at the Nationwide Federation of the Blind Jacobus tenBroek Incapacity Regulation Symposium in March 2024, the Society of Human Useful resource Administration’s (SHRM) Expertise Convention & Expo in April 2024, and the Nationwide Employment Attorneys Affiliation’s annual convention in June 2024. Be taught extra about Anthony Could right here.
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