The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law is a national nonpartisan civil rights organization founded in 1963 to mobilize the private bar and provide legal expertise to combat racial discrimination. It pursues impact litigation, policy advocacy, technical assistance, and coordinated pro bono representation to protect voting rights, challenge discriminatory policing and criminal justice practices, advance fair housing and lending, defend immigrant and educational equity, and strengthen democratic participation.
Voting rights and redistricting, police accountability and criminal justice reform, fair housing and lending, education equity, immigrant rights, anti-discrimination enforcement, access to the courts and civil legal services, and civil rights compliance at federal and state levels
Primarily philanthropic foundation grants and individual donations, supplemented by pro bono support and in-kind contributions from private law firms and occasional government or program grants
Partners and peer civil rights organizations such as the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the ACLU, Southern Poverty Law Center, national and local bar associations, and large private law firms that provide coordinated pro bono support
Non-profit organization (national civil rights legal organization, 501(c)(3))
