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The 2024 Lawdragon 500 Leading Civil Rights & Plaintiff Employment Lawyers
By Katrina Dewey | Guides, News & Features
So many rights we now take for granted came about because of a plaintiff lawyer who decided to stand up.
July 26, 2024
Civil Rights and Employment Law: Kelly Chanfrau
By Emily Jackoway | Lawyer Limelights
Chanfrau represents victims of workplace sexual assault and police violence, and employees discriminated against due to their race, gender, or disability.
April 4, 2023
The Lawyer Who Helped Take Down the Charlottesville Neo-Nazis
By Alison Preece | Lawyer Limelights, Paul Weiss Features
She's prepped presidential candidates for debate and represented tech giants. Then Karen Dunn turned her sights on Nazis.
November 15, 2022
Lawyer Limelight: Eve Hill, Disability Rights Advocate
By Alison Preece | Lawyer Limelights
Thirty-one years ago, The Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”) was passed, which federally ma…
May 13, 2021
Civil Rights Corps and ACLU Sue Orleans Parish District Attorney's Office
By Lawdragon News | Press Releases, ACLU News
NEW ORLEANS — To end the unconstitutional deception and jailing of crime victims and witnesses by …
October 17, 2017
New York Law Schools Launch March for Justice
By Lawdragon News | Press Releases
NEW YORK, NY (March 7, 2017) - The Statewide Law School Access-to-Justice Council, which includes r…
March 7, 2017
Cozen O’Connor Launches Premier Institutional Response Group
By Lawdragon News | Press Releases
Philadelphia, February 6, 2017— Cozen O’Connor is pleased to announce that five nationally reno…
February 6, 2017
Ballard Spahr Attorneys Help Human Trafficking Victims
By Lawdragon News | Press Releases
PHOENIX (December 15, 2016) – Over the last few years, attorneys in Ballard Spahr's Phoenix office…
December 21, 2016
ABA Marks 50 Years of Protecting and Advancing Human Rights
By Lawdragon News | Press Releases
WASHINGTON, April 15, 2016 — The American Bar Association Section of Civil Rights and Social Justi…
April 15, 2016
Lambda Legal Names Schiff Hardin's Tracey Wallace National Co-Chair
By Lawdragon News | Press Releases
Dallas, TX – March, 2016 – Schiff Hardin LLP is pleased to announce that Lambda Legal has name…
March 7, 2016
Lambda Legal Welcomes Carmina Ocampo
By Lawdragon News | Press Releases
(Los Angeles, CA, January 15, 2014) - Lambda Legal announced today Carmina Ocampo has joined the org…
January 17, 2014
Civil Rights Leaders to Reunite For MLK Day
By Lawdragon News | Press Releases
Nashville, Tenn. – Reverend James Lawson, Diane Nash and Earnest “Rip” Patton, who…
December 21, 2012