Disability Law United is hiring for a full-time Legal Director! Please see the listing here for more details about the role.
Disability Law United Settles Lawsuit on Behalf of the National Federation of the Blind and Blind Prisoners
Colorado Department of Corrections will Remedy the Systemic Failures that Threatened the Privacy and Safety of Blind Prisoners DENVER, CO — Brian Christopher Mackes and Adrian Chávez, two blind men in the custody of the Colorado Department of Corrections (CDOC),…
Welcome Staff Attorneys Golnaz and Elizabeth!
Disability Law United is overjoyed to introduce new additions to our team. Golnaz Fakhimi joins the Immigration Detention Accountability Project to advance justice through individual and class-action representation of immigrants with disabilities. She has worked with and for structurally marginalized…
Sacramento Police Department Sued for Repressing Anti-Police Efforts with Violence, Surveillance, and Home Raids
SACRAMENTO — Racial justice protesters recently filed suit against the City of Sacramento and the Sacramento Police Department for patterns of brutalization by police. Plaintiffs allege abuse during Black Lives Matter protests in 2020; the Sacramento Police Department then continued…
Farewell to Disability Law United Founders Tim Fox and Amy Robertson
Please join us as we say farewell to our founders and inaugural Executive Directors Tim Fox and Amy Robertson. While we are pleased to have many reasons to keep in touch with Tim and Amy—friendships, co-counseling, and their ongoing board membership, to name a few—we recognize that this is the end of an era for…
2022 Disability Law United Internships!
Hello Disability Law United community! We are recruiting for spring and summer 2022 legal internship opportunities for our Accessibility Project and Immigrant Detention Accountability Project. Please check out the AP internship description here and the IDAP internship description here.
Job Openings: IDAP and AP Staff Attorneys
Hello Disability Law United community! We are recruiting for Staff Attorneys for the Immigration Detention Accountability Project and the Accessibility Project. Please check out the job listing here!
Welcome Renee!
This fall, the Immigration Detention Accountability Project will be working with extern Renee Payne! Renee is a 3L Public Interest Law Scholar at Northeastern University School of Law. She was an Associate Editor of the Northeastern University Law Review and a…
Our New Director of the Accessibility Project!
Disability Law United is proud to announce that Senior Staff Attorney Pilar Gonzalez Morales will become Director of the Accessibility Project beginning September 27. Pilar focuses on decarceration work at all levels, from jails to detention centers to mental health…
Welcome Sam!
Our final extern welcome this summer is for Sam Becker! Sam is a rising 3L at Stanford Law School, where they are Co-Leader of the Immigration Pro Bono Project; Co-President of the Stanford Advocates for Immigrants’ Rights; Advocacy Chair for the Disability and Mental Health Network; and a Public Interest Fellow. Sam will be joining Disability Law…