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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

People’s Law Office is accepting applications for our 2026 summer internship and educational program, which focuses on civil rights litigation rooted in social justice and radical legal work. Interns will participate in a wide range of litigation-related work and will be exposed to a radical law office that has been committed to being “people’s lawyers” since 1969. Our attorneys and

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

Watch Nkechi Taifa, lawyer and CEO of the social justice-centered consulting firm Taifa Group and longtime friend and supporter of Mutulu Shakur and Brad Thomson from the People’s Law Office and Mutulu Shakur’s current attorney talk to Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman about the urgent push for the compassionate release of longtime political prisoner Mutulu Shakur from prison. #FreeMutulNow! Click here

“We had decided to call ourselves the People’s Law Office, informally at least, and our purpose was easily encapsulated in the obligation to be worthy of that name.” – – – Dennis Cunningham On August 1, 1969 a dedicated band of ’60s radicals opened the People’s Law Office in a converted sausage shop located at 2156 N. Halsted Street on Chicago’s

2023 CIVIL RIGHTS LITIGATION AND MOVEMENT LAWYERING FELLOWSHIP 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

This article was originally published on InjusticeWatch Follow this link to read all of Flint’s taxpayer charts that were referenced in this article. By Flint Taylor | June 14, 2022 Fifteen years ago, my colleagues at the People’s Law Office and I were engaged in a legal and political battle with the city of Chicago over police torture. Then-corporation counsel Mara Georges was threatening

The father of Joseph Lopez, and his attorneys, Flint Taylor and Ben Elson of the People’s Law Office and Greensboro attorney Graham Holt, have today filed a Federal Civil Rights lawsuit against Greensboro police officer Matthew Hamilton, and the City of Greensboro for Hamilton’s fatal shooting of Joseph Lopez on November 21, 2021.       The complaint, which was drafted after attorney