If you have or know of a potential case that might be appropriate for Public Justice, please read the information below for guidance. Please note that information found on this site is not legal advice. Viewing this site or contacting us does not establish an attorney-client relationship. The only way to become a client of Public Justice is through mutual agreement.
Public Justice weighs a variety of factors when determining whether to become involved in a potential case, but we only will consider involvement in cases that further the goals one or more of our four project areas:
- The Access to Justice Project, which seeks to make the civil court system a fair, equitable, and effective tool for those with less power to win just outcomes. Primarily through high-impact litigation, we dismantle the procedural and structural barriers between ordinary people and the civil justice system, such as forced arbitration, limits on collective actions, overly strict standing requirements, and unwarranted court secrecy.
- The Debtors’ Prison Project, which fights to end the criminalization of poverty and shrink the carceral system. Working with allies and impacted communities, we use litigation, advocacy, and education to ensure no one is jailed simply because they can’t pay and to stop governments and for-profit corporations from treating people impacted by the system as a revenue source.
- The Students’ Civil Rights Project, which combines high-impact litigation with other advocacy tools to combat harassment and other forms of discrimination in schools. We strive to create systemic change so all students can learn and thrive, and to secure justice for students who are denied educational opportunities based on their race, national origin, ethnicity, or sex, including sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression.
- The Environmental Enforcement Project, which goes to court every day to fight climate change, secure environmental justice, and make polluters pay. We utilize the most powerful tools available to citizens by enforcing our Nation’s environmental laws in state and federal court. Our experienced litigators win precedent-setting cases that result in meaningful, transformative change. We hold polluters accountable by requiring corporations to clean up their act and comply with our Nation’s environmental laws.
If you would like to suggest a potential case for Public Justice, please send us your contact information, a brief summary of the case, and how you think it is relevant to one of our four project areas. If possible, please identify any imminent deadlines. No phone calls please. You can contact us at the following:
Email: caseintake@publicjustice.net
Mail:
Public Justice
Case Intake
1620 L Street, N.W.
Suite 630
Washington, D.C. 20036
An attorney will review your submission as soon as possible. We will contact you only if we are able to offer assistance. Due to the volume of requests we receive, we regret we cannot reply to every request for assistance that is submitted. Thank you for not submitting multiple requests for the same matter, as that will only slow down the review process.