LAWYERS FOR IMMIGRANT RIGHTS
Funding
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Fighting to Support Immigrant Rights with Class Action Cases
Our mission is to provide grants, advocacy and education to
support impact litigation on behalf of communities
seeking economic, environmental and social justice.
FIGHT FOR LEGAL CHANGE TO BENEFIT EVERYONE
Let's make Justice available to everyone, not just the wealthy. Together we can end injustices like gender discrimination, LGBT discrimination, ableism, unfair worker compensation, racial discrimination, wage theft and environmental racism. Join this important movement today.
LtR; Jason Soto, Teddy Basham-Witherington, Jocelyn Larkin, Lynnette Miner, Sela Steiger, Zachary McCoy, Lindsay Nako, Robert Schug, and Amy Daniewicz
Who we are:
The Impact Fund is a passionate group of legal experts supporting cases that positively impact the day-to-day lives of communities fighting for justice.
What we do:
Provide $6 million in grants to advance public interest litigation that benefits large numbers of people, leads to significant law reform and raises public consciousness.
Train the next generation of social justice warriors.
Take corporate America to court, fighting for worker's rights, civil rights, and social justice. By winning these landmark cases we are able to establish a legal precedent for the future.
How we distribute funds by state and cause
Landmark Cases
Ellis v. Costco Wholesale Corp. - Fighting for women's rights. After years of legal battles, the court certified the case as a nationwide class action, finding that Costco had shown significant company-wide discrimination of women.
Estrada v. Bashas’ Inc. - Fighting for equal pay for hispanic workers. After over a decade of litigation, the district court granted our motion for class certification, permitting over 12,000 Bashas' workers to challenge pay inequity.
WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT TO WIN MORE CASES LIKE THESE. DONATE NOW AND HELP US TO MAKE THE LEGAL SYSTEM WORK FOR THE 99%
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Our approach
Grants
Learn about the types of cases we fund and how to apply for a grant in a new case.
Cases
Read more about the cases we are currently working on for social justice and change.
Legal Training
Learn how you can be part of the movement for social justice through impact litigation.
Latest Social Justice News & Stories
It is the day we are all waiting for. Game Day. Mediation. Your firm has spent 1,246.7 hours on the case so far, but everything will happen in these 12 hours. By the end of the day, you are so emotionally exhausted from the mediator pounding on you, and so happy to have the mediator come in with a number that you can tolerate, that you walk out with a pending mediator’s proposal that only says the gross dollar value of the global settlement. Perhaps you leave the mediation with a handshake agreement, but without nailing down the details of the Memorandum of Understanding. Oops. The devil was in those particular details. Everyone who has negotiated a class action settlement has probably had some term he or she forgot to address at mediation, or in the MOU, that returned in drafting the “final” agreement as a big headache and put the deal at risk. I have. I have thought, at many class action mediations, “I wish I had a checklist so I would remember all the key terms.” Here it is...