Disability Law United is grateful and excited to welcome Toni Cross and Hilary Smith on board. Toni joins the Accessibility Project as a current 2L at Vanderbilt Law School. Born and raised in Orlando, Florida, she is a law student,…
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…
LCCRSF and Disability Law United Joint Statement on the Verdict of Kyle Rittenhouse
Today, Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted of all charges in the shooting deaths of two people and injury to a third during protests sparked by the police shooting of 29-year-old Jacob Blake. While we are horrified and enraged by the acquittal…
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…
Disability Law United Board Announces New Executive Director
The Board of Directors of Disability Law United is thrilled to announce Martie Lafferty as Disability Law United’s new Executive Director, effective September 27, 2021. Martie succeeds founders and Co-Executive Directors Amy Robertson and Tim Fox, who will continue their…