Elizabeth Reinhardt

Cooley, alongside the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the ACLU of Georgia, filed a motion on behalf of the National Women’s Law Center to intervene as a defendant in a pending lawsuit against the NCAA that seeks to block transgender women and girls from playing NCAA sports, to bar transgender women and girls from using women’s facilities, and to erase records of past participation by transgender women and girls in NCAA sports.

Cooley, alongside the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), ACLU of West Virginia and Lambda Legal, secured a win for client Becky Pepper-Jackson in B.P.J. v. West Virginia State Board of Education before the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.

Cooley, alongside co-counsel the American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU West Virginia and Lambda Legal, filed a lawsuit challenging HB 3293, West Virginia’s new law banning girls and women who are transgender from participating in school sports. Partner Kathleen Hartnett led the Cooley effort.

A Massachusetts federal judge has upheld the Boston school system’s new admission policy for exam schools, a victory that will enhance racial, socioeconomic and geographical diversity in the city’s most prestigious public high schools. Cooley partners Michael Sheetz and Adam Gershenson led the Cooley effort, representing Anti-Defamation League on an amicus brief alongside leading nonprofits, business organizations and sports teams the Boston Celtics and the Boston Red Sox. The brief demonstrated that diversity benefits all students and local businesses because it helps create a generation of leaders equipped to compete in a diverse, global marketplace.