Have you or loved one been the victim of disability discrimination or abuse?

Disability Abuse and Discrimination

We stand up for the rights of people with disabilities.

If you’ve entrusted the care of a family member to a residential program for people with disabilities, there is no greater betrayal than learning your loved one was abused or neglected by the people who are supposed to protect them. Our attorneys have a strong track record of holding perpetrators accountable for disability abuse, and have recovered millions of dollars for families living through this nightmare. We have also represented many clients who have faced discrimination in employment, housing, and public accommodations on the basis of disability. Our attorneys’ disability rights experience, including at our prior firm, includes:

• Suing New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision for their policy of denying admission to an early release program to prisoners with mental health disabilities.

• Obtaining the largest monetary settlement ever recovered against the New York Office for People with Developmental Disabilities in a case involving rampant physical abuse and neglect of residents at a Bronx group home.

• Representing a man with HIV who was illegally refused care by a medical doctor.

• Winning a multimillion-dollar settlement on behalf of a young man with autism who, as a child, was repeatedly sexually assaulted by a staff member at a State-run group home.

• Successfully overturning an NYPD policy prohibiting police officers with hearing aids.