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CurrentJessie Weber’s practice includes cases involving disability rights, civil rights, housing discrimination, wage and hour violations, and appeals. Jessie’s successes include winning an arbitration award of more than $250,000 on behalf of an African-American former Hooters server who was fired from her job because of Hooters’ racially discriminatory image policy and securing an injunction requiring the Maryland Board of Elections to make its online ballot-marking tool available to voters with disabilities. She also helped obtain a $1.25 million settlement for a class of Baltimore City school bus drivers and attendants who were wrongly denied overtime and regular pay for all hours worked.Jessie has handled LGBT rights cases involving discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression in contexts ranging from employment to health insurance discrimination to students’ exercise of their First Amendment rights. She has also successfully represented clients in appellate courts throughout the country, including arguing in the Fourth Circuit in two disability rights cases.Jessie has been chosen annually for inclusion on the Super Lawyers‘ Maryland Rising Stars list from 2014 – 2017, an honor reserved for those lawyers 40 years old or younger or in practice for ten years or less, who exhibit excellence in practice. Only 2.5 percent of the attorneys in Maryland are named to the Rising Stars list each year.Jessie was selected to receive The Daily Record’s 2013 Leading Women Award. The Daily Record’s list of Leading Women honors 50 women who are 40 years of age or younger for the accomplishments they have made so far in their careers.
