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In the News: New ‘zine from Senator Markey details urgent and immediate need to #ExpandTheCourt
As the U.S. Supreme Court today begins its new term in the wake of its far-right majority repealing the fundamental right to abortion care last June, Senator Ed Markey reiterated his call to #ExpandTheCourt in his new ‘zine. Senator Markey’s proposed legislation, the...
Join Our Team: Now Hiring a State Courts Manager
We are no longer considering applications for this position. The People’s Parity Project (PPP) seeks a creative, self-motivated, and strategic State Courts Manager to join a growing team and manage the organization’s work to build state courts that serve as venues for...
In the News: Big Law’s Nightmare: Ethics Issues Scare Away New Recruits
Roy Strom writes for Bloomberg Law: University of Michigan Law School [...] students began a campaign to boycott firms that worked on election issues that aided Trump [...] The People’s Parity Project, a group of activist law students, pushed the Michigan boycott...
Organizing Training
Want to learn base building, power mapping, campaign planning, and other skills to strengthen your organizing work? Join People's Parity Project and Law Students for Climate Accountability for a remote organizing training for law students and attorneys from...
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...
No-CI: Pathways to Public Interest Law Careers
Planning a public interest career but feeling the pressure from your law school to go to OCI anyway? Let some awesome public interest lawyers ease your mind! The corporate focus of many law schools can leave public interest students adrift and doubting themselves, but...
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In the News: State Courts Are New Progressive Focus After Abortion Ruling
Madison Alder writes for Bloomberg Law: Progressives are paying more attention to state courts in an attempt to protect abortion access and other priorities while acknowledging they’re playing catch up. “Lots of folks are already focused on state courts, unfortunately...
On the Air: Re-rigging the Justice System in Favor of Equity
PPP's own Tristin Brown and Steve Kennedy appeared on the Hartford Times podcast to discuss re-rigging the justice system in favor of equity. PPP's @trisquire and @skennedy2504 chatted state courts on "Make Change Happen with Steven Hernández" — check it out!...
In the News: Pro Bono Is Broken
PPP's own Steve Kennedy writes for Balls & Strikes: For firms, highlighting their pro bono work burnishes their reputations with current and prospective clients, and helps recruit lawyers and law students who hope to serve their communities while still bringing...
In the News: Biden Turns to Lower Court Backlog After Jackson Confirmation
Madison Alder writes for Bloomberg Law about the backlog of open judicial seats as midterm elections grow closer: “While we were assured repeatedly by the White House that they wouldn’t stall lower court nominations during the Supreme Court confirmation process, we’ve...
In the News: Watching the Ketanji Brown Jackson Hearing as a Survivor of Childhood Sexual Assault
Our Organizing Director here at the People's Parity Project, Steve Kennedy, wrote for Slate about watching Judge Jackson's hearing as a survivor of childhood sexual assault: "I have rarely felt so seen by someone other than a fellow survivor as I did hearing Jackson’s...
In the News: Why Clarence Thomas’ wife is a major problem for the Supreme Court
Jon Skolnik writes in Salon: Progressive advocacy groups are calling on Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to recuse himself from cases relating to the activism of his wife, Ginni Thomas, a prominent conservative operative whose political activities, the groups...
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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