Cy Près Awards

Our Impact

Our Reach: We provide training and technical assistance to over eighty legal services providers in California. We also present a national class action conference and host a listserve for a network of plaintiff-side class action practitioners. We present an annual three-day training institute for practitioners seeking practical and strategy skills for litigating public interest class actions. We also provide free consulting to those working in the field.

Our Distinct Services: We’ve provided over $10 million in grants to advocates who bring cases advancing economic, environmental, racial, and social justice. We also provide litigation and consulting services – counseling, advice, and assistance on complex litigation issues.

We serve as counsel and file amicus briefs every year. We present a wide variety of trainings to support practitioners and our offerings include topics such as new case developments, legal writing, and appellate practice.

With our Notice Project, we provide class action litigators with tools to create class action notices that are easier to understand. The Notice Project class action notice templates and AI-powered notice review software have been used to create clearer class action notices in multiple cases. Judges have praised notices created using Notice Project tools as “terrific” and “unusually clear”.

Cy près awards allow us to continue this vital work. Thank you for partnering with us.

For more information contact: 

Teddy Basham-Witherington

510.845.3473 ext. 302

twitherington@impactfund.org

We thank the following firms for naming us as Cy Près beneficiaries: