In a Washington Post article on October 26, 2025, Nation’s biggest law firms back off from challenging Trump policies – Smaller law firms are being pressed to their limits as they try to pick up the legal slack, RBGG’s Kara Janssen is quoted about the firm’s commitment to standing up for justice as part of its challenge to the Trump Administration’s Executive Order defining gender in Doe v. Bondi, D.D.C. Case No. 1:25-cv-00286-RCK. As part of that order a small group of women currently housed in female facilities would have been immediately moved to male facilities, where many of them had been previously assaulted.
According to the Post, “Kara Janssen, senior counsel at San Francisco-based Rosen Bien Galvan & Grunfeld, said that starting in January, she and her colleagues spent many hours through several weekends seeking to obtain rulings to protect transgender women in federal custody. Their urgency was driven by fears that clients could be denied medical care and faced heightened danger in male facilities.” ‘We were working in the office and in evenings, and then from home on the weekends,’ said Janssen, whose firm has fewer than 30 attorneys. ‘This was the only thing we were working on.’”
That work resulted in multiple rulings granting Plaintiff’s requests for preliminary injunctions and ensuring these individuals would continue to be housed in female settings and receive necessary medical care. The orders are currently on appeal but the protections ordered by the District Court currently remain in place.