Prisoner Resentencing and Parole

From 2019 through 2021, Gilbert LLP 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 […]

International Prisoners

Gilbert has represented numerous individuals in pursuing claims in U.S. courts against the governments and entities responsible for their wrongful detention, obtaining judgments and other recoveries in the many tens of millions of dollars. Most recently, we secured a $24.3 million judgment against the Government of Iran on behalf of Roxana Saberi, an American journalist […]

Fighting for Racial Justice with ACLU of Louisiana

In July 2020, Gilbert LLP partnered with ACLU of Louisiana and a wide range of private firms and law school clinics to tackle the systemic problem of racially discriminatory policing practices. The initiative, called “Justice Lab: Putting Racist Policing on Trial,” aims to bring a wave of lawsuits challenging racially motivated stops, seizures, searches, false […]