Fair Housing & Public Accommodation
Our Expertise
Our team represents housing providers and public-facing enterprises in the full spectrum of compliance and disputes under the Fair Housing Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and parallel state and municipal laws. We routinely defend complaints filed with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and local fair housing agencies, and we litigate claims in federal and state courts involving alleged discrimination based on disability, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, familial status, source of income, and other protected classifications. We pair that litigation experience with practical counseling that helps clients resolve issues early, reduce exposure, and minimize risk.
The group’s experience includes drafting and auditing fair housing policies and procedures, calibrating tenant-screening protocols, and training leasing and site teams on reasonable accommodations, reasonable modifications, and assistance-animal requests. We also advise businesses and property owners on accessible-design and public accommodation obligations so that customer experience, facility standards, and digital accessibility considerations move in step with evolving law.
When disputes escalate, we litigate individual and multi-property matters in trial and appellate courts. Our team handles disparate treatment and disparate impact theories, tester evidence, steering and occupancy-standard challenges, design-and-construction claims, requests for injunctive relief, damages, attorney fee exposure, and consent decree compliance. We also coordinate insurance tenders and coverage strategy where policies respond.
