Jessie Weber, associate at Brown, Goldstein & Levy, spoke on the fifth annual Crawford Applied sciences Buyer Communications Summit on Could 2. Her presentation, entitled, “Accessibility and the Legislation: Obligations, Issues, and Finest Practices for Compliance,” coated the authorized panorama governing doc and digital accessibility for each non-public and public entities, in addition to ideas for proactively making certain organization-wide compliance.
Jessie’s presentation was half of a bigger symposium that includes quite a few periods on doc accessibility, enterprise content material processing, doc administration, and extra. Interactive displays and on-line boards gave occasion attendees the chance to community and join all through the day. Moreover, Crawford Applied sciences CEO Ernie Crawford spoke and shared his imaginative and prescient for the way forward for accessible and optimized buyer communications.
Jessie is thought for her groundbreaking work acquiring equal entry for people with disabilities to voting, web sites, and authorities info and providers. Every year, she takes on a number of high-impact instances associated to accessibility for individuals with disabilities throughout the nation. In 2021, she efficiently argued in Robles v. Domino’s Pizza, LLC on behalf of amici the Nationwide Federation of the Blind and different incapacity rights teams within the Ninth Circuit leading to a broadcast choice clarifying that public lodging should make their net and cell providers accessible now and can’t wait till the DOJ points website-specific rules. In Irving v. Berryhill, Jessie obtained a court-ordered settlement settlement with the Social Safety Administration requiring SSA to make its customer consumption processing kiosks at its subject places of work nationwide totally accessible and usable to blind guests.
Jessie enjoys serving to shoppers navigate a various vary of adverse authorized points, with a deal with civil rights, together with incapacity and LGBTQ+ rights, employment legislation, together with wage and hour instances, and appellate litigation. An skilled appellate litigator, she has argued earlier than the Fourth, Sixth, Ninth, and D.C. Circuit Courts of Appeals and has additionally submitted briefs in the US Supreme Court docket, the Second Circuit Court docket of Appeals, and in state appellate courts in Maryland and Washington State. Jessie is effectively versed in each advanced litigation and negotiations and enjoys utilizing a spread of instruments to acquire justice for her shoppers.
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