What We’re Fighting For
We are working towards our long-term goal: a world in which lawyers understand that the practice of law is inherently political, that they are empowered to choose a side and choose to fight for the people, and that they are then held accountable by their professional community and the public as a whole for shaping the law into a force for true justice.
We believe that public policy decisions should reflect democratic values, rooted in a combination of majoritarian rule and a justice-oriented ideology.
We believe that going into the legal profession should be a commitment to be on the side of the people, and that both lawyers and judges should be accountable as a professional community and to the public as a whole.
We believe that the entry points for people in the legal profession must be expanded beyond just corporate pathways, and that careers within the legal profession can more closely draw upon and tie back to the larger community.
We believe in right-sizing the role of the legal system in our society, where the legal system is understood in the same political context as people understand and evaluate elected officials. Rather than seeing the courts as sacrosanct and above reproach, a referee standing apart from the game, we see the courts as another player on the field, capable of all the moves, pressures, and adaptations that we expect from members of Congress and other elected officials.
Power to the People
Together, we are dismantling a profession that upholds corporate power and building in its place a system that reflects our values of justice, equity, and solidarity.
We believe that this sort of change is only possible if it is anchored in an organizing project that reflects a generational commitment to changing how the legal system sees itself. This is a project by and for the legal community. We are committed to the generational work of organizing our colleagues and future colleagues into a new vision of their role as lawyers and judges.
Building a legal system that works for the people is going to require organizing
Litigation is important—but we know that litigation alone isn’t going to build the legal order (or the democracy) that we need. We organize within the legal profession to build a generation of lawyers committed to building the structural change we need.