ALG Welcomes Associate Attorney Bekah Bass

Bekah Bass joins ALG following her time as a Legal Honors Attorney with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and as a Law School Fellow at the George Washington University Law School’s Civil and Human Rights Law Clinic. Bekah earned her Juris Doctor from George Washington University, and was inducted into the Order … Read more

Judge orders BLM’s former top cop reinstated 3 years after dismissal

An administrative judge sided with the Bureau of Land Management’s former top law enforcement official in a yearslong legal battle over his dismissal amid assertions he was being punished for complaints about a top BLM official. Administrative Judge Evan Roth with the Merit Systems Protection Board issued a decision Friday that Eric Kriley, the former … Read more

ALG Welcomes Associate Attorney Abigail Young

Abigail Young joins ALG following her work with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development as a Trial Attorney and Legal Honors Attorney. In law school, Abigail interned for the Voting Section of the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and the Voting Rights Project of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil … Read more

ALG Welcomes New Partner Lisa Sandoval

Atkinson Law Group is thrilled to welcome Lisa Sandoval. As a former senior trial attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, Lisa worked tirelessly to vindicate the rights of workers who experienced discrimination and retaliation in the workplace. In addition to securing numerous settlements that brought substantial relief to workers and required … Read more

U.S. workers without protective gear assisted coronavirus evacuees, HHS whistleblower says (The Washington Post)

Officials at the Department of Health and Human Services sent more than a dozen workers to receive the first Americans evacuated from Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, without proper training for infection control or appropriate protective gear, according to a whistleblower complaint.