Thank you for taking the time to complete this survey, sponsored by People's Parity Project, the National Employment Lawyers Association, and Peggy Browning Fund!
Please ensure that your firm completes this form only one time.
Young people across the country are increasingly drawn to workers’ rights issues, as evidenced by the excitement surrounding the unionization efforts at Amazon, Starbucks, REI, and beyond and increasing support for more worker-friendly legal protections. Yet young law students and attorneys continue to use their law degrees to serve corporate America in overwhelming numbers, putting their skills to work on behalf of the very companies that are oppressing workers. Combating the pro-corporate bent of the legal profession will require a years-long, multi-faceted approach. This starts with making sure law students and new attorneys fully understand their career options.
One of the biggest barriers to law students pursuing careers at plaintiff- and union-side legal employers is that law students do not even realize these jobs exist or do not know when and how to apply to them. While some publicly available guides currently exist, they are often out-of-date, over-inclusive, or fail to provide information that is truly useful for current job-seekers.
In order to help students and new attorneys access this information about pro-worker careers that law schools too often do not have or are unwilling to share, People’s Parity Project, the National Employment Lawyers Association, and Peggy Browning Fund are compiling a guide to pro-worker legal employers that will be publicly available to any law student or attorney looking for this kind of work.
We are asking legal employers who do pro-worker advocacy from across the country to complete a simple, 10-minute survey about their workplace, their hiring processes, and opportunities for summer and post-graduate employment. We will compile and publish the information in an easy-to-read format and make it publicly available for law students and lawyers everywhere.
If you have any questions about the survey or the Workers' Rights Legal Employment Guide, please contact Molly Coleman, Executive Director at People's Parity Project, at molly@peoplesparity.org.