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On Tuesday, November 10th, 2009, Legal Action Center honored this year’s recipients of the Arthur Liman Public Interest Award: Daniel K. Mayers and Esta E. Stecher. A retired senior partner at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr LLP, Mr. Mayers has been on LAC's Board of Directors for 31 years and Chairman for the last 11 years. Ms. Stecher is the Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Goldman Sachs, and is nationally recognized for her outstanding corporate leadership, distinguished legal career, and philanthropic activities. The event, held at the Tribeca Rooftop in New York City, was chaired by Stephen M. Cutler, the General Counsel at JPMorgan Chase & Co., and Brad S. Karp, Firm Chairman of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP.
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LAC’s highly acclaimed "Know Your Rights" webinar series: Anti-Discrimination Laws Protecting People with Alcohol and Drug Problems and Criminal Records, is now available on this website for viewing at any time. Created under the Partners for Recovery Initiative of the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), this free, five-part series covers anti-discrimination laws protecting people with alcohol/drug histories and criminal records. To access the webinars and the written answers to questions raised by participants, please visit the Webinar Achives Page. |
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Project Highlights
■ National Advocacy Campaign
The Legal Action Center (LAC) and State Associations of Addiction Services (SAAS) have joined forces to launch the National Advocacy Campaign, our major new national initiative to educate policymakers and advocate for public policy reform at the federal, state, and local levels to achieve two over-arching goals:
- Eliminate discrimination against people in recovery from addiction who are fully qualified for employment, insurance, housing, education, and life’s other necessities.
- Greatly expand and improve the availability and quality of prevention, treatment, and recovery support services, and increase research and the application of recovery-focused scientific findings in communities across the country
Learn more about the campaign and how you can get involved here.
■ Legal Action Center’s H.I.R.E Network Releases a National Blueprint for Reentry
The National Blueprint for Reentry: Model policies to promote the successful reentry of individuals with criminal records through employment & education is a comprehensive plan to improve employment and educational opportunities for people with criminal records.
■ After Prison: Roadblocks to Reentry. A State-by-State Report Card
A landmark two-year study of the legal obstacles that people with criminal records face when they attempt to reenter society. In order to help advocates eliminate these unfair roadblocks, the Legal Action Center has developed advocacy kits on 12 critically important policy, funding and legal issues that can be used to remove nearly all of the most harmful roadblocks to re-entry.
More on Roadblocks to Rentry
More on the Advocacy Tool Kits