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Civil Rights and Discrimination Organizations

Organizations whose own description of their work names civil rights and discrimination. The subject comes from what each organization has published about itself, not from a category anyone assigned to it.

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Showing 1–24 of 25 organizations.

What all 172 organizations say they work on

Bar length is relative to the largest subject, 40 organizations; the hairline marks half. Subjects come from each organization's own published description; an organization that has not described its work is in none of these.

Published placements at these organizations, by year
  1. 1 2021
  2. 1 2022
  3. 2 2024
  4. 3 2025
  5. 2 2026

Every placement LAAC has published at these organizations, summer and post-graduate: 9 in all. 3 of the 25 that name civil rights and discrimination have taken someone before the bar. A year with no mark is a year LAAC published no placement at any of them.

Listed A to Z

  • A New Way of Life (Los Angeles)

    Since our founding in 1998, A New Way of Life have helped transform the lives of more than 600 women and their children.

    • Housing
    • Healthcare and Public Benefits
    • Employment and Workers' Rights
    • Civil Rights and Discrimination
  • Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Los Angeles (Advancing Justice-LA)

    Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Los Angeles (Advancing Justice-LA) is the nation’s largest legal and civil rights organization for Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders (NHPI).

    • Civil Rights and Discrimination
  • Asian Law Alliance — Santa Clara County (ALA)

    The ALA has helped tens of thousands of people in obtaining decent housing, justice in the immigration process, and access to basic human and legal rights.

    • Housing
    • Immigration
    • Civil Rights and Discrimination
  • Asian Law Caucus

    Founded in 1972, Asian Law Caucus is the nation’s first legal and civil rights organization serving the low-income Asian Pacific American communities.

    • Immigration
    • Civil Rights and Discrimination
  • California Women’s Law Center (CWLC)

    Since its founding in 1989, the California Women’s Law Center (CWLC) has served as a unique advocate in California, working in collaboration with others to protect, secure, and advance the…

    • Civil Rights and Discrimination
  • Casa Cornelia Law Center

    WHAT WE DO Casa Cornelia Law Center, a 501(c)(3) public interest law firm, provides quality pro bono legal services to victims of human and civil rights violations.

    • Immigration
    • Civil Rights and Discrimination
  • Casa Cornelia Law Center (CCLC)

    Casa Cornelia Law Center (CCLC) provides legal services to victims of human and civil rights violations, with a primary commitment to indigent persons within the immigrant community in Southern…

    • Immigration
    • Civil Rights and Discrimination
  • Child Care Law Center

    The Child Care Law Center began in 1980 as the Bay Area Child Care Law Project.

    • Housing
    • Civil Rights and Discrimination
    • Small Business and Economic Development
    • Disability Rights
  • Disability Rights California (DRC)

    Hires before the bar

    Disability Rights California (DRC) is the agency designated under federal law to protect and advocate for the rights of Californians with disabilities.

    • Housing
    • Healthcare and Public Benefits
    • Employment and Workers' Rights
    • Civil Rights and Discrimination
  • Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, Inc. (DREDF)

    Founded in 1979, DREDF is a leading national civil rights law and policy center directed by individuals with disabilities and parents who have children with disabilities.

    • Civil Rights and Discrimination
    • Disability Rights
    • Children and Youth
  • Disability Rights Legal Center (DRLC)

    DRLC, originally called the Western Law Center for the Handicapped, was founded in 1975 by friends and colleagues of A.

    • Civil Rights and Discrimination
    • Disability Rights
  • Housing and Economic Rights and Advocates

    We promote affordable and fair credit access, asset building and preservation.

    • Consumer and Bankruptcy
    • Civil Rights and Discrimination
  • La Raza Centro Legal

    La Raza Centro Legal is a community-based legal organization dedicated to empowering Latino, immigrant and low-income communities of San Francisco to advocate for their civil and human rights.

    • Housing
    • Immigration
    • Healthcare and Public Benefits
    • Consumer and Bankruptcy
  • Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area (LCCRSF)

    Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area, founded in 1968, works to advance, protect and promote the legal rights of communities of color, and low-income persons, immigrants,…

    • Immigration
    • Civil Rights and Discrimination
  • Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law

    The principal mission of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law is to secure equal justice for all through the rule of law, targeting in particular the inequities confronting African…

    • Civil Rights and Discrimination
  • Legal Aid at Work

    Hires before the bar

    Legal Aid at Work promotes the stability of low-income and disadvantaged workers and their families by addressing issues that affect their ability to achieve self-sufficiency.

    • Immigration
    • Employment and Workers' Rights
    • Civil Rights and Discrimination
    • Disability Rights
  • Legal Services for Prisoners with Children (LSPC)

    1 published placement, hires before the bar

    LSPC organizes communities impacted by the criminal justice system and advocates to release incarcerated people, to restore human and civil rights and to reunify families and communities.

    • Civil Rights and Discrimination
    • Criminal Records and Reentry
  • Los Angeles Center for Law & Justice (LACLJ)

    LACLJ has four core program areas: domestic violence, legal services teenage and young adults struggling with abuse and difficult co-parenting matters, immigration services to victims of interpersonal…

    • Immigration
    • Family Law and Domestic Violence
    • Civil Rights and Discrimination
  • McGeorge Community Legal Services

    The Pacific McGeorge Legal Clinics provide training to McGeorge law students through pro bono clinic services to the Sacramento community.

    • Immigration
    • Consumer and Bankruptcy
    • Civil Rights and Discrimination
    • Elder Law
  • Mental Health Advocacy Services (MHAS)

    Mental Health Advocacy Services, Inc. (MHAS) is a private, non-profit organization established in 1977 to provide free legal services to people with mental disabilities.

    • Consumer and Bankruptcy
    • Civil Rights and Discrimination
    • Disability Rights
    • Children and Youth
  • Public Advocates Inc.

    Public Advocates is a nonprofit law firm and advocacy organization that challenges the systemic causes of poverty and racial discrimination by strengthening community voices in public policy and…

    • Housing
    • Immigration
    • Civil Rights and Discrimination
  • Public Counsel

    Public Counsel is the largest pro bono law firm in the nation.

    • Housing
    • Immigration
    • Family Law and Domestic Violence
    • Consumer and Bankruptcy
  • Senior Citizens Legal Services (SCLS)

    Senior Citizens’ Legal Services (SCLS) provides free legal services to defend the rights of the elderly to quality housing, government benefits, and protection from exploitation and discrimination.

    • Housing
    • Civil Rights and Discrimination
    • Elder Law
  • The Public Interest Law Project

    PILP advances justice for low income people and communities by building the capacity of legal services organizations through impact litigation, trainings, and publications, and by advocating for low…

    • Housing
    • Healthcare and Public Benefits
    • Civil Rights and Discrimination

Organizations, descriptions and membership come from the Legal Aid Association of California's own directory. Placements come from LAAC's published fellowship rosters.