Protecting Tenant Rights in Rent Dispute

We currently represent a District of Columbia tenant in a landlord-tenant dispute involving a nonpayment of rent action pending in DC Superior Court. The matter was referred through Legal Aid DC and includes preparation for and attendance at a Bell hearing, mediation, and a non-jury trial, as well as negotiations with the landlord to resolve […]

Protecting Houses of Worship Against Immigration Raids

In 2025, Gilbert LLP joined with Democracy Forward and the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs to file a lawsuit on behalf of a wide range of religious groups over the Trump-Vance Administration’s rescission of long-standing policies prohibiting immigration enforcement activities at houses of worship and other facilities used by religious organizations in furtherance […]

Fighting Abuse at U.S. Prisons

Gilbert is partnering with the Washington Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs to represent a growing number of incarcerated individuals who are or were housed at the U.S. Penitentiary Lee (USP Lee) in western Virginia. These individuals have suffered physical and sexual assaults, prolonged use of inhumane restraints, racial and psychological abuse, and […]

Prisoner Resentencing and Parole

Gilbert LLP recently represented a client who at 17 years old was accused of involvement in a murder. At the time of the alleged crime, our client was living in what was then a heavily segregated, high-crime area of Washington D.C. Our client was, even according to the Government’s contentions at the time, not the […]