Brown, Goldstein & Levy is proud to welcome Samantha Westrum as a brand new legal professional. Her follow consists of circumstances involving civil rights – together with incapacity rights, LGBTQ+ rights, prisoners’ rights, police misconduct, and housing discrimination – and baby sexual abuse.
Samantha is obsessed with her authorized advocacy and continues to make use of her expertise to work towards making the world a greater place for the following technology. As a regulation college scholar on the College of Texas College of Regulation, she served as a Professional Bono Scholar, organizing particular training regulation clinics within the Austin group for households of scholars with disabilities and serving to them higher perceive their rights in particular training proceedings.
She was additionally an Affiliate Editor of the Texas Journal on Civil Liberties and Civil Rights, which revealed her scholar be aware: “Juvenile Injustice: Defending Kids of Coloration with Disabilities from Arrest Inside and Exterior of Colleges.”
When Sam labored as a scholar legal professional with the Texas Rio Grande Authorized Help Housing Division, she efficiently negotiated with a landlord to cease eviction proceedings towards her shopper and gained a keep of one other shopper’s eviction. Sam’s internships included alternatives with Incapacity Rights Texas, the Workplace of Civil Rights within the Division of Justice, and the ACLU Incapacity Rights Program, all of which fueled her ardour for justice on the intersection of incapacity rights and legal authorized reform.
Previous to becoming a member of the agency, Sam was a Stew Dunn Authorized Fellow on the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia. As a Fellow, she litigated circumstances that defended the rights of incarcerated people, individuals with disabilities, LGBTQ+ people, and people looking for reproductive care. Her position in these circumstances included arguing in federal and state court docket, main discovery, and negotiating settlements.
Sam listens to purchasers with compassion–honoring their distinctive backgrounds and identities and constructing belief in her advocacy. In doing so, she lets purchasers’ tales be heard in a approach that’s genuine to them.
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