At our 2018 Awards Dinner on June 6, NCLEJ debuted a new video profiling our work and the communities with whom we work.
Read More →The Trump Administration’s April 10, 2018 Executive Order is a cruel and heartless attack on low-income individuals and families. In requiring federal agencies to take steps to add or strengthen work requirements for recipients of all means-tested assistance…
Read More →On March 30, 2018 the New York State Legislature passed and the Governor signed a new bill that includes significant improvements to state laws governing workplace sexual harassment. These new provisions: Expand existing state law protections against workplace…
Read More →NAPABA Law Foundation Partners and In-House Counsel Community Law Fellow, Theresa Lau organized a community legal clinic this weekend to help Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients after USCIS resumed accepting DACA renewals. The event mobilized volunteer…
Read More →NCLEJ has secured a victory in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals holding a debt collection attorney accountable for deceptive and unfair litigation practices against low-income New Yorkers. NCLEJ, along with co-counsel New Economy Project and Ahmad Keshavarz,…
Read More →Last week, the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee issued a Temporary Restraining Order directing the immediate reinstatement of the driver’s licenses of Fred Robinson and Ashley Sprague, named plaintiffs in a class action…
Read More →Today, NCLEJ and Western New York Law Center sued the Buffalo Police Department to force it to turn over information about its checkpoint program. Read the full press release here.
Read More →Last week, attorneys from the National Center for Law and Economic Justice (NCLEJ), Civil Rights Corps, Just City, and the law firm Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, filed a federal class action lawsuit, Robinson, et al. v….
Read More →NCLEJ signed on to an amicus brief in Stinnie v. Holcomb, a class action lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Virginia’s statute automatically suspending the driver’s licenses of hundreds of thousands of Virginia drivers who cannot afford to pay…
Read More →NCLEJ is outraged and disappointed by both this past weekend’s horrific events in Charlottesville and Donald Trump’s repeated refusal to place fault where it belongs—with white supremacists and neo-Nazis. His refusal to reject his white supremacist supporters only…
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