Thursday, June 5, 2025, 11:00 a.m.
Presenter: Steven Schwartz, JD, Special Counsel, Center for Public Representation
Registration required for the New Legal Landscape
This session will review the Trump Administration’s coordinated attack on disability rights, through the issuance of executive orders that eliminate legal claims and disability rights, rescind disability regulations, and challenge important disability precedents. It will discuss strategies to oppose these efforts, particularly in light of the drastic reduction in civil rights enforcement by the Department of Justice. Steve serves as special counsel, after founding the Center in 1976 and then serving as its executive director for 38 years and litigation director for 13. After graduating from Harvard Law School in 1971, he represented thousands of people with disabilities over the past fifty years. He has testified before Congress on numerous occasions, successfully resolved a number of damage cases for institutionalized individuals with disabilities, and litigated dozens of class action cases that challenge the unnecessary segregation of people with disabilities in psychiatric hospitals, developmental disability institutions, nursing facilities, and juvenile justice settings.