logo

Video encyclopedia

National Lawyers Guild

1:11

NLG Know Your Rights reminder: Shut the f*** up!

0:56

Melina Abdullah speaks on the National Lawyers Guild

2:34

National Lawyers Guild Jorge Gonzales Promo

0:33

National Lawyers Guild protest in front of DOJ

3:49

‘No room for criminalizing race, religion’ – National Lawyers Guild

The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) is a progressive public interest association of lawyers, law students, paralegals, jailhouse lawyers, law collective members, and other activist legal workers, in the United States. The group was founded in 1937 as an alternative to the American Bar Association (ABA) in protest of that organization's exclusionary membership practices and conservative political orientation. They were the first US bar association to allow the admission of minorities to their ranks. The group sought to bring more lawyers closer to the labor movement and progressive political activities, to support and encourage lawyers otherwise "isolated and discouraged," and to help create a "united front" against Fascism.