Meet the 2024 PPP Leadership Fellows
The legal profession has long been captured by corporate interests. As a result, we have a legal system built to serve those same interests, rather than the everyday people most in need of justice. This corporate capture begins as soon as law students arrive on...
Announcing the Inaugural Cohort of PPP Leadership Fellows
The legal profession has long been captured by corporate interests. As a result, we have a legal system built to serve those same interests, rather than the everyday people most in need of justice. This corporate capture begins as soon as law students arrive on...
Now Hiring: Summer 2022 Interns
Summer Legal Internship The People’s Parity Project seeks law students for our remote summer 2022 legal internship program. All interns are required to seek funding through their school or other programs; candidates for whom this is not an option should reach out to...
PPP Coffee Chats
Join a member of the PPP staff team for a coffee chat about progressive legal organizing, navigating the career search as a justice-centered law student, the state of the judiciary, or anything else that’s on your mind! Coffee’s on PPP — we’ll send...
PPP Statement on the Nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court
Washington, D.C. — Following today’s announcement that President Biden will nominate Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, People’s Parity Project’s Policy & Program Director Tristin Brown released the following statement: “We...
Just learned that one of our major local law firms that is prominently featured as a sponsor of bar association events and legal aid organizations spends its days defending major corporations against veterans' mesothelioma claims. Love this for us
It bears repeating over and over and over again that forced arbitration is central to abuses of corporate power. It squelches private enforcement, and we're left with public enforcement agencies that don't have anywhere near the resources to attack these issues alone. https://twitter.com/leah_nylen/status/1600173553420099589
@FTC Chair Khan speaking at the WSJ CEO Council this AM on taking on the biggest companies: The FTC is “entirely outgunned, especially when we are up against some of the most formidable and wealthiest and most powerful companies in America."
Funding for the NLRB has been static since 2014, even as petitions to form a union are up 58% in 2022 compared with 2021.
If we don't fully fund the NLRB, the laws that protect unionizing workers go unenforced. Tell your senators that's unacceptable: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/fund-the-nlrb/
No serious person can believe that firms that make their money by defending corporations who destroy the environment and exploit workers are hostile to conservatism - they are its main defenders.
"What the Court of Appeals does affects the same sweep of life and law that the Supreme Court does. Courts like this need diversity of experience. They need judges in their collective who come in with different sensitivities and appreciations." https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-ny/ny-state-of-politics/2022/11/29/hochul-s-chief-judge-pick-will-be-closely-watched