Protecting Tenant Rights in Landlord’s Chapter 11 Bankruptcy

Gilbert attorneys teamed up with Legal Aid to provide advice to tenants whose landlord refused to conduct needed apartment repairs and has filed a Chapter 11 bankruptcy.  Gilbert attorneys lent their expertise to the tenants by providing advocacy during the Chapter 11 plan confirmation process, particularly related to preserving tenants’ rights to continued possession of […]

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 […]