Rachel M Weisberg


Client Assistance Program Manager and Managing Attorney
Equip for Equality

Biography


Rachel Weisberg is a Managing Attorney at Equip for Equality where she litigates individual and systemic disability discrimination cases under Titles I, II and III of the ADA. She also serves as the program manager for the Illinois Client Assistance Program which advocates and provides assistance for people in their pursuit of programs and services provided for within the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. Prior to Equip for Equality, Rachel worked as an Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Rights Bureau and Disability Rights Bureau of the Illinois Attorney General's Office, a labor and employment associate at Sidley Austin LLP, and a law clerk for Chief Judge James G. Carr in the Northern District of Ohio. Before law school, Rachel worked as an ADA technical assistance specialist at the Mid-Atlantic ADA Center, and during law school interned with the Disability Rights Section of the U.S. Department of Justice. She is a 2008 graduate of Northwestern University School of Law, and a 2003 graduate of the University of Michigan.