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Here with another #EJAFellowUpdate to let my network know what I’m learning in my internship with the Southern Poverty Law Center and how funding from Equal Justice America is making this possible. Three big takeaways so far. First, shifting focus to state-based litigation is a national trend to combat a SCOTUS hostile to civil rights. But that doesn’t mean that it is any easier in the southern states where SPLC works. The bar to achieve essential measures of justice – e.g. constitutional conditions of confinement and postconviction relief – is still so high, it’s almost impossible to meet. Second, it is really hard to investigate and find a plaintiff for impact-style cases. Impact-focused organizations should invest in on-the-ground relationships (whether by hiring organizers and community advocates, or something else). Third, working for an organization founded on combatting hate and extremism during this election cycle is deeply moving. But also, even though SPLC has a storied reputation and some endowment funds to boot, we’re at the whims of political missions. The problem is that litigation is much slower than the changing winds of politics and public policy focus, so we’re still working on important issues that left the social discourse years ago. EJA provides summer scholarships to law students working in public interest. https://lnkd.in/eRMFYigK

The battle over raced-based nonprofit programs is a fight between protecting philanthropic freedom — and the idea that private grant making is a form of constitutionally-protected free expression — and a civil rights statute dating from the 1860s that forbids discrimination based on race in private contracts. The Reconstruction-era law, meant to protect former slaves, is now being used by litigants like Edward Blum, Stephen Miller, and others to try to dismantle race-based grant making. Alex Daniels reports: https://lnkd.in/eWywTG-p Meltzer Center for Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging at NYU School of Law

Read more from CDA Board Member Princess Bazley-Bethea on why collective action is the key to inclusive workplaces across the humanitarian, development, and peacebuilding fields. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eK-bjkqK

As the summer has moved along, I have gotten deeper into the work at Brooklyn Defender Services through court observations, work on motions, trial preparation, and research assignments for open cases. I am getting a lot of first-hand experience observing hearings in family court, which has been very interesting to participate in. This week, I worked on preparing for a simultaneous permanency and motion hearing for a client. I prepared a digest for trial based on the ACS case notes available and used that to draft cross examination questions for the case planner during the hearings. To do this effectively, I also conducted research into legal arguments we were using to try to further our case, such as how certain factors in determining family reunification are defined in the law. It is exciting to learn how to prepare for trial and how to begin analyzing evidence in a way to be able to further our client’s case in court. It is exciting to learn how to prepare for trial and analyze evidence to help further our client’s case in court. To help Equal Justice America support future law students working toward the goal of providing equal access to justice for all, you can donate here: https://lnkd.in/ePp6aGuJ #EJAFellowUpdate

Law360 recently highlighted the Stand Together Initiative, a collaborative effort between Barnes & Thornburg, the Stand Together Foundation, the Koch Pro Bono Initiative, and Villanova Charles Widger School of Law. This innovative program offers law students a unique chance to work alongside Barnes & Thornburg attorneys on meaningful pro bono projects that benefit nonprofit organizations across the country. https://bit.ly/4ikNJTl

Law360 recently highlighted the Stand Together Initiative, a collaborative effort between Barnes & Thornburg, the Stand Together Foundation, the Koch Pro Bono Initiative, and Villanova Charles Widger School of Law. This innovative program offers law students a unique chance to work alongside Barnes & Thornburg attorneys on meaningful pro bono projects that benefit nonprofit organizations across the country. https://bit.ly/4174DhM

Good for this young man!! We have to get past the idea that people who do certain jobs are less intelligent or less capable because of the jobs that they do. The jobs wouldn't EXIST if they didn't need to be done. They are not menial jobs. They are essential! We need more people who want to train for all sorts of trades. There is a shortage of laborers, in part because of poor pay equity, but also because of the attitude that people have been spreading since the dawn of time that being a laborer isn't worthy of respect. Nothing could be further from the truth. Laborers build our cities' infrastructure, maintain and repair every "tool" that we use to make life more efficient and comfortable, allow us to focus on getting well, focus on our education, focus on our kids, focus on other tasks & other business, by taking care of specific daily needs EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. They should not be the unseen, the unheard, the unappreciated. Take time out of whatever you are doing each day to show appreciation to these "heroes". Before attending Harvard Law School, Rehan Staton once worked in sanitation. Rehan maintained his humility and multiplied it, starting a nonprofit that celebrates the support staff at Harvard Law. On the Road with Steve Hartman has more. https://lnkd.in/gW6sEstn?

Law360 recently highlighted the Stand Together Initiative, a collaborative effort between Barnes & Thornburg, the Stand Together Foundation, the Koch Pro Bono Initiative, and Villanova Charles Widger School of Law. This innovative program offers law students a unique chance to work alongside Barnes & Thornburg attorneys on meaningful pro bono projects that benefit nonprofit organizations across the country. https://bit.ly/4fE6Wxm

Law360 recently highlighted the Stand Together Initiative, a collaborative effort between Barnes & Thornburg, the Stand Together Foundation, the Koch Pro Bono Initiative, and Villanova Charles Widger School of Law. This innovative program offers law students a unique chance to work alongside Barnes & Thornburg attorneys on meaningful pro bono projects that benefit nonprofit organizations across the country. https://bit.ly/4i3957u