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On Record PR


Jun 22, 2021

Caitlan McCafferty goes on record with Samantha Rothaus, an associate at Davis+Gilbert LLP, to discuss the Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund, why access to identity documents that correctly match a person’s name and gender are important, what challenges are unique to the transgender community in the process of changing a name, and why pro bono work is important to the legal profession.

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Davis+Gilbert LLP is a strategically focused, full-service mid-sized law firm of more than 130 lawyers. Founded over a century ago and located in New York City, the firm represents a wide array of clients – ranging from start-ups to some of the world's largest public companies and financial institutions – throughout the United States and internationally. Davis+Gilbert is widely regarded as the #1 law firm for the marketing communications industry.

Davis+Gilbert is a partner law firm of the Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund, also known as TLDEF, and the organization's Name Change Project. It helps provides pro bono legal name change services to low-income transgender people, including asylum seekers, asylees, refugees, and immigrants, through partnerships with some of the nation's most prestigious law firms and corporate law departments to assist in obtaining legal name changes.