Brown, Goldstein & Levy was honored with the celebrated Interior Metropolis Regulation Heart Katharine Krause Award, in recognition of the agency’s 2024 efforts in Powers v. McDonough. Accomplice Eve Hill, who represented the plaintiffs within the case, accepted the award on behalf of BGL throughout a Might 21 luncheon on the Omni Resort Los Angeles. The Katharine Krause Award honors a person, group or agency that has made notable contributions towards bettering the lives of weak members of the communities served by ICLC. The award’s namesake was an lawyer, chief in public curiosity legislation and an ICLC board member.
The Powers v. McDonough case centered a category of veterans with critical psychological sickness and traumatic mind accidents experiencing homelessness who partnered with the Nationwide Veterans Basis in a 2022 lawsuit towards the federal authorities for its failure to offer them steady housing and healthcare. In September 2024, U.S. District Choose David O. Carter dominated that the U.S. Division of Veterans Affairs should construct new housing items for veterans with disabilities on its West Los Angeles campus. The identical choice dominated that leases to UCLA and different organizations on VA property are unlawful, as a result of the leases’ functions don’t primarily serve veterans. The ruling was a landmark victory for veterans with disabilities experiencing homelessness.
ICLC counseled BGL’s work to make sure equal entry to high quality authorized illustration for all who want it. BGL is proud to have contributed greater than 960 hours of authorized providers, valued at over half 1,000,000 {dollars}, to ICLC purchasers over the previous two years. These efforts will rework the lives of unhoused veterans in Los Angeles. The 25th Annual Award Luncheon in Downtown Los Angeles introduced authorized, enterprise and civic leaders collectively to have a good time the work of ICLC, BGL and others. The luncheon raises essential funds that can assist ICLC’s continued work to offer authorized illustration to probably the most weak residents of Los Angeles and struggle for steady housing for all households.
ABOUT EVE HILL
Eve Hill is likely one of the nation’s main civil rights attorneys, recognized particularly for her work with purchasers with disabilities and LGBTQ+ purchasers. She has been acknowledged by Law360 as one in every of simply 12 “Titans of the Plaintiffs’ Bar” for 2023, in addition to by Lawdragon as one of many 500 Main Legal professionals in America (2022, 2023, and 2024). Her wide-ranging expertise enhances Brown, Goldstein & Levy’s a long time of dedication to high-impact incapacity rights circumstances and its advocacy on behalf of people with disabilities and their households. Eve additionally leads Inclusivity, BGL’s Strategic Consulting Group, which works with organizations to advertise the schooling, engagement, and employment of individuals with disabilities. Study extra about Eve.
ABOUT INNER CITY LAW CENTER
Interior Metropolis Regulation Heart fights for housing and justice for low-income tenants, working-poor households, immigrants, people who find themselves disabled or residing with HIV/AIDS, and homeless veterans. The one legal-services supplier situated in Skid Row, ICLC advocates for equitable housing insurance policies and offers authorized providers to stop and finish homelessness. Study extra about ICLC right here.
ABOUT BROWN, GOLDSTEIN & LEVY
Based in 1982, Brown, Goldstein & Levy is a legislation agency primarily based in Baltimore, Maryland, with an workplace in Washington, DC. The agency is nationally acknowledged in all kinds of observe areas, together with advanced civil and business litigation, civil rights, well being care, household legislation, and felony protection. Above all else, Brown, Goldstein & Levy is a client-centered legislation agency that brings a long time of expertise and passionate, efficient advocacy to your struggle for justice.
