By Dianne Post, Central Arizona NLG Facilitator The State Bar of Arizona has twice tried to change its ethical rule 8.4 to include non-discrimination against women, LGBTQ people, socio-economic status, gender identity, etc. Some years ago, the Bar submitted this suggested change to the Supreme Court. The pushback was immediate and vicious. Lawyers rose up […]
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Ahead of Convention, NLG PDX Provides Legal Support to Anti-Racist Movements
By Ashlyn Ruga, Portland NLG Membership Coordinator Like much of the country, Portland, OR has seen a massive influx of resistance to the overt and undeniable fascism and white supremacy that President Trump has re-legitimized since the 2016 election. The state has responded with repressive tactics, but that has not quelled the myriad ways anti-fascists […]
President’s Column: On Collective Resistance
“Awareness of our situation must come before inner changes, which in turn come before changes in society. Nothing happens in the ‘real’ world unless it first happens in the images in our heads.” —Gloria Anzaldúa If one thing has become clear under this government that has laid bare its white supremacist and patriarchal beliefs, it’s […]
NLG Detroit & Michigan Chapter Annual Dinner Honors Buck Davis and Cynthia Heenan, with Keynote by Noam Chomsky
By Kurt Thornbladh, NLG Detroit & Michigan Treasurer On February 11, 2018 the Detroit & Michigan Chapter of the NLG hosted its 81st Anniversary Dinner at Local 600, United Auto Workers, in Dearborn, MI. More than 500 people braved freezing temperatures, snow and sleet to attend. Keynote Speaker Noam Chomsky gave an enlightening talk to […]
Announcing NLG Foundation Guild Grants Recipients
By Daniel McGee, NLGF Managing Director The NLG Foundation (NLGF) is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2017 Guild Grants Program. A total of $25,000 was awarded to fourteen grantees to promote membership in the NLG, strengthen programmatic work, and enhance coordination among Guild chapters, committees, and the National Office. Recipients were awarded small […]
NLG Weinglass Fellow Fights Construction of Toxic Kentucky Prison
By Emily Posner, NLG Weinglass Fellow Over the past two years, the Letcher Governance Project (LGP), Coalition to Fight Toxic Prisons (CFTC) and Abolitionist Law Center (ALC) have worked in collaboration to stop the Bureau of Prisons’ (BOP) proposal to build a new penitentiary on top of a former mountain top removal site used for […]
Meet the 2018 Haywood Burns Fellows
The NLG National Office is pleased to introduce our 2018 Haywood Burns Fellowship recipients! Now in its 45th year, the Fellowship sponsors law students and legal workers spending the summer working for public interest organizations nationwide to build their legal skills and strengthen their long-term commitment to social justice. Tyler Crawford is a Stein Public […]
Apply for 2018 NLG Leonard I. Weinglass Memorial Fellowship
Leonard I. Weinglass (1933-2011) was a criminal defense attorney and constitutional law advocate. Over the course of his career, he represented political activists, government opponents, and criminal defendants— including Angela Davis, the Cuban Five, the Chicago Seven, the Pentagon Papers, and the death row appeals of Mumia Abu-Jamal—in a half century of politically significant cases. He was […]
Struggles of Using Legal Recourse for Better Prison Conditions
This is an adaptation of an article originally published on the NLG Blog, Struggles of Using Legal Recourse as a Path Toward Better Prison Conditions. Read the original and other blog pieces at nlg.org/blog. By Lisa Drapkin, NLG Membership Director It seems there could never be enough legal support to help the millions of prisoners […]
NLG Buffalo Demands Answers from County Sheriff Misclassifying Inmate Suicides
By Dominick Roa ’19 & Suzanne Starr ‘19, NLG Buffalo SUNY Buffalo Law Civil Liberties and Transparency Clinic In February of this year, the New York State Commission on Correction named Erie County’s two jails among the five “worst offenders” in the State when it comes to inmate mental health treatment, suicide prevention, and excessive […]