Brown, Goldstein & Levy is thrilled to welcome our new summer time associates for 2025: Rachel Bechtel, Lyllian Simerly, Kristina Smith, and Mira Ward.
These extremely completed regulation college students carry with them glorious educational information and a ardour for regulation careers devoted to social duty and justice. As they progress via BGL’s summer time affiliate program, they’ll have the prospect to realize hands-on litigation expertise and publicity to instances in apply areas reminiscent of civil rights, industrial litigation, employment discrimination, prison protection, and extra.
“We’re delighted to welcome Rachel, Lyllian, Kristina, and Mira to the agency this summer time,” stated Jessie Weber, BGL’s managing companion. “Their spectacular backgrounds and dedication to pursuing justice will assist us serve our purchasers, as we assist form the following era of attorneys.”
Be taught extra about every of our summer time associates under:
Rachel is a rising 3L at American College Washington Faculty of Regulation, the place she serves on the board of the Equal Justice Basis, and as occasions chair of the Incapacity Regulation Society. Her ardour for incapacity advocacy has taken her abroad the place she accomplished a Grasp of Arts by Analysis in Mental and Developmental Disabilities on the College of Kent in England. She is drawn to BGL for its robust repute combating for incapacity rights.
Kristina is a Juris Physician candidate on the College of North Carolina Faculty of Regulation, the place she has earned honors for the best grade in her class in Constitutional Regulation, Contracts, and Torts. She was additionally awarded the Chancellor’s Scholar Award, which earned her a full tuition scholarship. Beforehand, she interned for the U.S. Division of Justice, the place she labored on issues associated to the Truthful Housing Act. Her advocacy for racial fairness and justice within the realm of housing pairs effectively with BGL’s repute and work in housing regulation.
Lyllian is a 3L on the College of Michigan Regulation Faculty, the place she has earned many scholarships and honors. On the College of Michigan, she participates in actions such because the Michigan Regulation Overview, 1L Oral Advocacy Competitors, Michigan Regulation ACLU, American Structure Society, and the First Era Regulation College students. Given her ardour for social justice, she is happy to affix BGL as a summer time affiliate. Final summer time, she interned with the Michigan Poverty Regulation Program, the place she labored within the Household Regulation Division.
Mira is working via her last yr on the College of Maryland Francis King Carey Faculty of Regulation. As a Juris Physician candidate, she served because the workers editor of the Journal of Well being Care Regulation & Coverage and was a Variety & Inclusion Scholar. She was additionally a regulation fellow at FutureCare in Pasadena, Maryland, the place she cultivated her information and keenness in healthcare regulation and medical malpractice. Mira is wanting ahead to working extra in healthcare regulation at BGL.
We look ahead to working with these passionate summer time associates!
ABOUT BROWN, GOLDSTEIN & LEVY
Based in 1982, Brown, Goldstein & Levy is a regulation agency primarily based 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 industrial 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 struggle for justice.
