There is no such thing as "good government" without racial justice.

Lawyers for Good Government is committed to standing in solidarity with Black, Indigenous, Asian, and Latine Americans and all communities who are most directly impacted by systemic racism and oppression.

Lawyers for Racial Justice (LRJ) is an initiative to mobilize critical pro bono legal resources in the fight for racial justice. 

Lawyers for Racial Justice, developed by L4GG in the spring of 2020, works on two fronts: (1) systemic change to promote long-term reform, and (2) remote pro bono legal clinics to advise those dealing with the effects of potentially discriminatory policies. LRJ focuses in a number of sub-issue areas within the broad mantle of racial injustice, such as the role of law enforcement in schools, voting rights, criminal justice, equal access to education, and broadband access disparities.

For each sub-issue, we identify organizational partners, conduct extensive research and analysis of policies that create disparities, and then where possible, draft model legislation that promotes racial equity.

 

Lawyers for Racial Justice is made possible with support from a coalition of law firms and corporations, known as L4GG Pro Bono Partners.

For a full list of our Pro Bono Partners, click here.

We invite you to join us.

Non-Profits

If you are with a non-profit organization that would like to partner with L4GG, please fill out the short form linked below. Through our organizational partnerships, we are able to mobilize millions of dollars in pro bono legal work to support the fight for racial justice.

Law Firms / Companies

If you are with a law firm or company that would like to partner with L4GG on the Lawyers for Racial Justice initiative, please fill out the short form linked below to find out more about how you firm or company can join our fight.

RACIAL JUSTICE IN THE NEWS

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Texas Is Trying To Classify Gender-Affirming Care as Child Abuse—Here’s What That Means for Trans Youth
Texas Is Trying To Classify Gender-Affirming Care as Child Abuse—Here’s What That Means for Trans Youth

"Governor Abbott and Attorney General Paxton do not have the authority to rewrite Texas law. They're both lawyers; they know their opinion goes way beyond any reasonable analysis of existing Texas law," says Mika Fernandez, a civil rights attorney and Vice President at Lawyers for Good Government.

Study finds Ky. among worst in nation for child farmwork protections
Study finds Ky. among worst in nation for child farmwork protections

A recent report from the advocacy group Lawyers For Good Government points to Kentucky as having some of the worst regulations for children and farm work in the country. The state doesn’t have minimum age requirements for the industry, restrictions against night work or limits on long or consecutive days worked for children in agriculture.

Justice Alito Is Wrong—Discrimination and Racism are Different Things
Justice Alito Is Wrong—Discrimination and Racism are Different Things

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito wrote for a 6-3 majority upholding two Arizona laws impacting voting rights of people of color. The court gutted the “discriminatory effects test” of the Voting Rights Act, because discriminatory effects are easy to prove in court and racist intent is very difficult to prove, writes Adam Fernandez, civil rights attorney with Lawyers for Good Government.

L4GG's Adam Fernandez Featured on NBC LX
L4GG's Adam Fernandez Featured on NBC LX

On Thursday, April 15 Adam Fernandez, L4GG’s Vice President of Policy and Strategic Engagement, joined NBC LX to discuss Biden’s first slate of judicial nominations and the need for over-nominating diverse judges.

Corporate Counsel, Big Law Join Lawyers for Racial Justice Initiative
Corporate Counsel, Big Law Join Lawyers for Racial Justice Initiative

Corporate counsel from the Bank of New York Mellon Corp., General Electric Co., Johnson & Johnson, Verizon Wireless, Dell Technologies and several other sizable companies have joined with major law firms and a national network of pro bono lawyers as part of an effort to drive systemic change and racial justice.

The Lawyers for Racial Justice initiative is a new creation of the Lawyers for Good Government Foundation, or L4GG, a national nonprofit network of legal advocates formed after the 2016 election.