COOK COUNTY (CHICAGO) HAS JOINED DETROIT & WISCONSIN AS PLACEMENT HOST FOR 2019 PRP FELLOWSHIP!
We are thrilled to announce that the Cook County (Chicago) State’s Attorney’s Office, under the leadership of State’s Attorney Kim Foxx, has joined the Offices of Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan and Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul as placement host for the 2019 Public Rights Project Fellowship.
At the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office, the Fellow will help enforce laws that protect residents from predatory lenders and financial service providers, wage theft, and financial crimes and fraud. The Fellow will also work to develop a program to utilize the civil arm of the State’s Attorney’s Office to further criminal justice reform and increase the public safety of residents of Cook County. (For more on this placement, click here.)
Are you (or anyone you know) a lawyer with 3-5 years of experience? Are you passionate about public service? Interested in developing new skills?
We, along with our partners at Justice Catalyst, the Office of San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera and Yale Law School’s San Francisco Affirmative Litigation Project, wrote a guidebook, “Local Action, National Impact: A Guide To Affirmative Litigation.”
The guidebook draws from the pioneering partnership between the San Francisco City Attorney’s Office and Yale Law School, as well as from successful case studies across the country on issues like fair housing, predatory lending, and LGBT rights. The guide offers a roadmap and concrete tips for local governments that want to pursue this kind of work by starting or building an affirmative litigation practice.
Our President, Jill Habig, and Legal Director, Joanna Pearl, wrote about the guide on Take Care: “While cases against the Trump Administration like the census matter rightly grab headlines, the next step is for government to expand beyond reacting to the federal government and use their proactive authority to enforce their residents’ legal rights.”
We are grateful to our co-authors Christine Kown, Yvonne Mere, Marissa Roy and Palak Sheth and to the following individuals who helped with the guide: Michael Bostrom, Kaitlin Caruso, Ben Elga, Ronald Flynn, Kathleen Morris, Nicole Miura, and Yvonne Meré.
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