Dylan Steinburg and Christopher Brook will be presenting their work as counsel for state gay marriage cases prior to Obergefell in North Carolina and Pennsylvania. They will be discussing litigation strategy, case history, post-marriage equality issues, and other issues post Obergefell. This presentation is sponsored by OutLaw.
LGBT Law Now: Speaker Presentation on State Gay Marriage Cases hosted by OutLaw
The presentation will be Monday, March 7 at 6 pm in room 204.
Chris Brook, Legal Director of the American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina, oversees the organization’s legal program and its work on a wide range of constitutional law issues. These issues include LGBT rights, racial justice, and religious liberty. Brook is from Raleigh, North Carolina and attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for undergradute and JD degrees. While in law school, he served as a legal intern at the UNC Center for Civil Rights, Director of the Carolina Law Pro Bono Program, and Managing Editor of the North Carolina Journal of International Law and Commercial Regulation. Post law school, Brook was inducted into Carolina Law’s Davis Society, which recoginzes third-year students possessing both academic and personal excellence as well as willingness to serve.
Dylan Steinberg is a shareholder and commercial litigator at Hangley Aronchick Segal Pudlin & Schiller in Philadelphia, P.A. Steinberg has represented clients in a wide variety of technology and life science matters, including matters relating to software licensing and implementation as well as life science collaborations. In partnership with the ACLU, Dylan and four of his colleagues at Hangley Aronchick represnted the plaintiffs in Whitewood v. Wolf. Whitewood succeeded in striking down Pennsylvania’s laws prohibiting same sex marriage in May of 2014. Steinburg received his B.A. from Swarthmore College and his J.D., cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. During law school, he was an Articles Editor for the University of Pennsylvania Law Review. Post law school, he clerked for the Honorable Stewart Dalzell on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.