Public Justice’s 2022 Trial Lawyer of the Year award was awarded to an incredible group of attorneys who took on a landmark case that exposed an egregious incident of police corruption and abuse in North Carolina. This year’s award was presented to the winning team – McCollum et al. v. Robeson County et al. – during…
Public Justice is excited to announce that we will be honoring Arthur Bryant with our first-ever Legacy Award for the many years of service as Attorney, Executive Director, and Chairman of Public Justice (originally Trial Lawyers for PublicJustice/TLPJ). In 1984, Arthur was hired as the sole staff attorney at TLPJ. He eventually became the executive director…
We’re excited to announce that Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton will receive our 2022 Champion of Justice Award! “Human rights are women’s rights and women’s rights are human rights.” With those words, delivered to the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in 1995, then-First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton solidified her status as a human rights…
Wenceslaus “June” Provost Jr., a fourth-generation sugarcane farmer, and Angie Provost of Provost Farm will receive Public Justice’s 2022 Illuminating Injustice Award. Provost Farm, a Black-owned, 5,000-acre farm under the management of Wenceslaus “June” Provost Jr., and his wife, Angie, went from being one of the most productive, award-winning sugarcane farms in the country to…
We’re thrilled to announce the finalists for the 2022 Trial Lawyer of the Year Award! The TLOY Award celebrates and recognizes the accomplishments of an attorney or team of attorneys working on behalf of individuals and groups that have suffered grave injustice or abuse. This year’s award will be presented at the organization’s 40th Annual…
Public Justice is a public interest legal advocacy organization that takes on the biggest systemic threats to justice of our time—abusive corporate power and predatory practices, the assault on civil rights and liberties, and the destruction of the earth’s sustainability. We connect high-impact litigation with strategic communications and the strength of our partnerships to fight…
On January 6, 2021, Americans across the country watched in horror as a group of right-wing extremists descended upon Washington, D.C., and stormed the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to block the certification of the presidential election results and replace the candidate selected by the voters with the candidate they wanted. The deadly attack lasted…
Groups Urge State Bar Associations and Legislatures to Follow Suit This past summer, the American Bar Association passed Resolution 507, opposing the use of private jails, prisons, and juvenile detention centers to detain people before they stand trial and after they are convicted. In its report, the ABA found “first, that mixing profit with the core governmental…
Observed the first Monday in September, Labor Day serves as an annual celebration of the American workforce, the historic victories of the labor movement from which we all benefit today, and the contributions that workers have made toward our nation’s successes. Today, and every day, Public Justice recognizes and celebrates the impact workers have made…