Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) announced a series of strategic promotions within its Department of Litigation as the organization fights to protect and expand civil rights amid unprecedented federal retrenchment. This month, the following ...
Contact: The Legal Aid Society, press@legal-aid.org Legal Defense Fund, media@naacpldf.org (NEW YORK, NY) — The Legal Aid Society, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF), The Bronx Defenders, LatinoJustice PRLDEF, and the law firm Ballard Spahr defeated ...
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) announced the appointment of Laura Kadetsky as Chief Operations Officer & General Counsel. Kadetsky has over 15 years of experience leading mission-driven national organizations, having most recently served as ...
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) filed an amicus brief in Board of Education of the City School District of the City of New York v. U.S. Department of Education urging the court to reject the Trump ...
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) sent a letter to Harvard University raising serious legal concerns about its newly-implemented alumni interview policy that requires alumni interviewers to erase all references to an applicant’s race, ethnicity, ...
On Dec. 18, the Trump administration issued an Executive Order to encourage the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to complete a rule making process that began in 2024, when it collected public comments about the reclassification ...
Yesterday, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF), Southern Coalition of Social Justice, and Common Cause North Carolina, working with a coalition of other nonpartisan national and North Carolina-based voting rights and civil rights advocacy organizations, issued ...
