We are the people who will shake the system until the law reflects the truth.”—Barack Obama

Eve Hill is one of the nation’s leading civil rights lawyers, known especially for her work with clients with disabilities and LGBTQ+ clients. She has been recognized by Law360 as one of just 12 “Titans of the Plaintiffs’ Bar” for 2023, as well as by Lawdragon as one of the 500 Leading Lawyers in America (2022, 2023, and 2024). Her wide-ranging experience complements Brown, Goldstein & Levy’s decades of dedication to high-impact disability rights cases and its advocacy on behalf of individuals with disabilities and their families. Eve also leads Inclusivity, BGL’s Strategic Consulting Group, which works with organizations to promote the education, engagement, and employment of people with disabilities. 

From 2011 to January 2017, Eve served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General of the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, where she was responsible for oversight of the Division’s disability rights, education, and Title VI enforcement and the American Indian Working Group. She was part of the negotiating team for the Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who are Blind, Visually Impaired or Otherwise Print Disabled; testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to support ratification of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; enforced accessibility requirements for websites and other digital technology; implemented Olmstead community integration requirements in employment and education; and enforced disability rights in education, testing, and health care.

Eve is the former Senior Vice President at the Burton Blatt Institute of Syracuse University, where she was responsible for the Institute’s work on the Americans with Disabilities Act, disability civil rights, and communications issues.

Preceding her employment at the Burton Blatt Institute, Eve was the District of Columbia’s first Director of the Office of Disability Rights, responsible for ensuring compliance with the ADA throughout District government. This position gave Eve an insider’s view on investigations of complaints, informal dispute resolution, litigation consultation, training, and disability policy development.

As the Executive Director of the Disability Rights Legal Center at Loyola Law School, Eve managed all aspects of this non-profit disability rights organization and supervised all major programs, including the Civil Rights Litigation Project, Disability Mediation Center, Cancer Legal Resource Center, Community Outreach Program, and Education Advocacy Project.

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Publications
  • Accessible Voting in a Pandemic: A Review of Recent Cases“, Harvard Law Review, February 19, 2021

  • “Panel: Building Coalitions and the Disability Rights Movement,” Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law & Policy, co-presenter Judith Heumann, 2020.

  • Technology Vendor Contracts and Accessibility: What Every Business Lawyer Should Know,” Business Law Today, E. Hill, L. Feingold, April 19, 2018.

  • Preparing Transition-Age Youth with Disabilities for Work: What School Leaders Need to Know About the New Legal Landscapes,” Institute for Educational Leadership Policy Brief, E. Hill, R. Kline, C. Richards, February 2018.

  • “Whither the Disability Rights Movement? The Future of Disability Rights Law,” ABA Human Rights Magazine, Vol. 42 No. 4, 2017.

  • “The ADA, Disability and Identity,” J. of the Am. Med. Assn., co-author D. Goldstein, 2016.

  • “Legal and Policy Implications of Cloud Computing,” proceedings of the Human Computer Interaction International conference, 2011.

  • Contributor, Litigating Employment Discrimination Cases, Friedman, 2010, 2011.

  • “Cases & Materials on Disability Civil Rights Law & Policy,” Thomson-West, co-authors P. Blanck, C. Siegal, M. Waterstone, 2005, 2009.

  • “Future of Disability Law and Advocacy and ‘The Right to Live in the World,’” Second Jacobus tenBroek Disability Law Symposium, 15 Tex. J. on Civil Liberties and Civil Rights 1, co-author P. Blanck, 2009.

  • “Future of Disability Rights: Part Three—Statutes of Limitations in Americans with Disabilities Act Design and Construction Cases,” 60 Syracuse L. Rev. 125, co-author P. Blanck, 2009.