Practice Areas
Dispute Resolution
Going to mediation should be an easy choice, but many lawyers and clients flinch at the cost because the outcome is uncertain. Book with Equiveras and receive quality mediation services at a cost that will convince you that it's worth your time.
Fair Housing Training
Ensure you and your employees understand your obligations under the federal Fair Housing Act, including often-misunderstood areas such as reasonable accommodations, reasonable modifications, and familial status discrimination. Equiveras can tailor a training to meet your specific needs.
Fair Housing Consulting
Have questions about your company's compliance with fair housing laws? Equiveras can review your policies, consult on reasonable accommodation requests, and provide advice on next steps, giving you and your employees greater confidence in your business practices and helping you maintain good relationships with your tenants.
Understand Multifamily Housing Accessibility Requirements
Developers, architects, and contractors are all responsible for compliance with the federal Fair Housing Act's accessibility requirements for multifamily housing. Equiveras can provide training tailored to your company's needs so you get it right from the beginning and avoid costly mistakes.
Mediation and Fair Housing Law Lawyer
About Equiveras Legal Consulting, PLLC
Equiveras provides mediation services and expert legal advice in civil rights matters, with specific expertise in fair housing law.
Mediation Services
After more than two decades litigating cases, I know that litigation is ultimately a terrible way to solve problems. Even when you are convinced that justice is—or should be—on your side, in reality, the outcome is almost entirely out of your control and in the hands of a judge and jury. A confidential mediation with a neutral third party who can talk to and understand the interests on both sides can help you achieve an outcome that is more certain, more equitable, and less expensive than continuing litigation.
Legal Consulting Services
I provide consultations and training to landlords, property managers, homeowners associations, developers, architects, builders, and others on their obligations under the federal Fair Housing Act. With more than 20 years of experience investigating violations, litigating and resolving cases, and tracking post-settlement compliance, I am uniquely positioned to address the challenges faced by companies in the rental housing and multifamily housing construction businesses.
Andrea Steinacker
Owner, Mediator, Attorney, and Trainer
In 2004, I was hired directly out of law school as a Trial Attorney in the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division through the Attorney General's Honor's Program. I spent the next 20 years in the Division's Housing and Civil Enforcement Section, where I investigated and litigated cases alleging violations of the Fair Housing Act, the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, Title II of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Public Accommodations), Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and other statutes enforced by the Housing Section. In 2016 I applied and was selected for promotion to Special Litigation Counsel for Fair Housing. In that role I supervised investigations and cases, acted as lead attorney on complex litigation, consulted with case teams on litigation strategy and civil procedure, developed skills trainings for attorneys, and took on various responsibilities a member of the Housing Section's management team. I left the Civil Rights Division in October 2024 to return home to western Washington and open my own mediation and legal consulting practice.
I graduated cum laude from the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University in April 2004. I was admitted to the Washington State Bar in November 2004.