National Lawyers Guild

The National Lawyers Guild is a Bar Association in the United States for lawyers and related professions. Similar in some respects to the American Civil Liberties Union, it has strong leftist political leanings. The NLG constitution states that one of its purposes is to establish a social and political movement "to the end that human rights shall be more sacred than property interests."

Related Topics:
Bar Association - United States - Lawyer - American Civil Liberties Union - Leftist

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Many if not most American lawyers representing organized labor or the civil rights movement have been or are members of the NLG.

Related Topics:
Organized labor - Civil rights movement

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The NLG was founded in 1937 as an alternative to the American Bar Association, which was segregated (see racial segregation) at that time. The NLG is made up of national projects, committees and local chapters across the country.

Related Topics:
1937 - American Bar Association - Racial segregation

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Michael Avery, a law professor at Suffolk Law School, is the current President of the National Lawyers Guild.

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