Jacob Wells Wohl

Jacob Wohl joined Bernabei & Kabat as a Civil Rights Litigation Fellow in September 2023. Mr. Wohl graduated from American University Washington College of Law in May 2023, where he served as the Editor in Chief of the Administrative Law Review. As a student attorney in the Disability Rights Law Clinic, Mr. Wohl represented families navigating the special education system. He also represented individuals with disabilities seeking inclusive mobility options and those individuals seeking equal opportunity of access in public accomodations. As a research assistant to Professor Ezra Rosser, Mr. Wohl researched key and analyzed the effects of the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing intitiative and provided edits to Professor Rosser's book, A Nation Within: Navajo Land and Economic Development.

During law school, Mr. Wohl interned at the state and federal level. He worked for Tzedek DC and the Maryland Commission on Civil Rights, as well as the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Equal Employment Opporunity Commission. During his summer at the Maryland Commission on Civil Rights, Mr. Wohl drafted a legal framework for including income inequality as a protected class. While at the Deapartment of Justice, Mr. Wohl worked with the team that brought the first-of-its-kind environmental justice action under Title VI.

Prior to law school, Mr. Wohl was an elementary school teacher with a focus on fostering an inclusive classroom for students of all abilities. Mr. Wohl graduated with a Master's in Education from the University of Maryland in 2016, and graduated from St. Mary's College of Maryland with a B.A. in Poltiical SCience and Education in 2015.