Costello & Mains Partners Speak at NJ Transgender Remembrance Day and are Interviewed by NEWS 12 New Jersey

Kevin Costello and Deborah Mains attended the Garden State Equality Advocacy group's 'Transgender Remembrance Day,' when trans people murdered simply for who they were are remembered, their names read during a candlelight vigil. Kevin Costello also addressed the gathering to discuss Discrimination claims currently in progress at the firm which advocate for the rights of trans people.

"All children are born without hate in their hearts," Kevin told the crowd. "Hate has to be learned." Kevin spoke about the firm's commitment to the civil rights of all people, including members of the GLBT community.

"Often," Kevin told said during a NEWS 12 interview at the event, "GLBT people are considered to be the last underclass that it's ok to publicly bash. In that group, trans people are seen as the least of the least. That has to change. People have to learn to look into a heart of a human being and judge him or her on the merits, not on their religion, culture, ethnicity or gender... or gender identity or expression."

Costello & Mains Files Groundbreaking Suit for a Transgendered Woman

New Jersey employment law firm Costello & Mains, P.C. has filed a lawsuit on behalf of April Murdoch, a male to female transsexual who was viciously tormented by her employer when her landlord, who entered her apartment without her permission and discovered paperwork pertaining to her transition, informed her employer of his find.


"This is one of the more egregious and profound examples of hostility to transgendered persons," says partner Kevin Costello. "We hope not only that justice will be done," Kevin says, "but also that by continuing to expose the sort of hate transgendered people endure for having the courage to be who they are, we can start to reverse the societal bias and ignorance that so often infects the lives of transgendered people."