Issues & Case Updates

Today, lawyers from the People’s Law Office in Chicago filed a five-count civil rights complaint on behalf of Danny Wilber, a Black and Indigenous man who was wrongfully convicted of a murder that he did not commit. The complaint names nine individual former Milwaukee police officers and the City of Milwaukee, alleging that the officers, individually and together, framed Mr.
The FOP has, without exception, vociferously opposed every proposed police reform and effort to obtain police transparency. “The FOP is the sworn enemy of Black people,” former Congressman Bobby Rush said while defending Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx from the racist attack of the Fraternal Order of Police in 2019. “The FOP has always taken the position that Black
Until now, no Cook County prosecutor has ever faced charges for prosecutorial misconduct in a wrongful conviction case Misconduct caused Burge torture survivor Jackie Wilson to be wrongfully imprisoned 36 years CHICAGO – A four-decade saga of police rampage, torture, cover-up and perjury reached a new chapter today when two former Cook County Assistant State’s Attorneys were criminally charged for crimes arising

December 21, 2022

Free Bernina Hanukkah Action

On December 19, 2022, over 30 people joined a Hanukkah celebration at Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker’s home in Chicago to demand that he sign the executive clemency petition for Bernina Mata. The #FreeBernina Team and Love & Protect organized the action on the second night of Hanukkah, a celebration of a struggle for liberation, to urge Governor Pritzker to liberate

December 16, 2022

Mutulu Shakur is Home!

People’s Law Office client and Black Liberation elder Mutulu Shakur has been released from prison after 36 years. The full statement from the Family and Friends of Mutulu Shakur is below: Today, the morning of December 16th, 2022, Dr. Mutulu Shakur was released from prison on parole! The decision to grant parole is based on federal law guidelines for “old
On December 4, 1969, the Chicago police murdered Black Panthers Fred Hampton and Mark Clark. Our office brought a successful lawsuit on behalf of their families, suing the FBI, CPD, and the Cook Cook State’s Attorney for conspiring to commit this political assassination. Read more about this case here
This article was published in the Police Misconduct and Civil Rights Law Report in the September/October issue. Follow this link to read the article.
People’s Law Office is seeking one or more post-graduate fellows, beginning in the fall of 2023. The program is a two-year commitment, with the possibility of continuing at the firm at the end of the fellowship. The program is designed for newly admitted attorneys (with less than 5 years experience) who are interested in civil rights and criminal defense litigation

November 15, 2022

October 19, 2022

Welcoming our New Fellows

The People’s Law Office is pleased to announce the launch of its Civil Rights Litigation and Movement Lawyering Fellowship, with two inaugural fellows, Hakeem Muhammad and Nora Snyder. We welcome them to PLO and look forward to working with them throughout their two-year fellowship. Mr. Muhammad’s upbringing in the “Black belt of Chicago” inspired him to become an attorney that