In just a few days dozens of NLG Chicago members and supporters will be coming together for an evening of music, food, and celebration as we honor the work of dedicated movement legal workers and attorneys!
Join us September 17th at Haymarket House!
- Delicious vegan food from Kalish Vegan
- Incredible tunes from Airgo Radio
- Tasty beverages from @revbrewchicago and @drinkhalfpast
- Community with Chicago’s incredible movement legal workers and attorneys!
- Raising the critical funds needed to support our mission that “human rights and the rights of the environment shall be held more sacred than property interests.”
This event is our biggest fundraising event of the year and helps us continue doing the important work we’re known for of using the law for the people. Will you buy your ticket today? Click here!
NLG Chicago is proud to honor Iveliz Orellano as this year’s Trailblazer Award Winner!
We are proud to announce that this year’s Trailblazer Award winner is movement lawyer Iveliz Orellano! This year we did something different and opened up voting for the Trailblazer Award to NLG Chicago’s general membership. Come celebrate her and the work of NLG Chicago at this year’s Annual Celebration on Sept 17th!
Buy your tickets HERE: bit.ly/NLGCHI2022
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Iveliz works as an assistant public defender at the Office of the Cook County Public Defender. In that role, she strives for zealous representation of her clients within the framework of police and prison abolition. She has actively organized with other Assistant Public Defenders to build a more radical, abolitionist framework within the office. She played an instrumental role in trainings coordinated by NLG and the PDs office focused on training PDs on providing representation in protest cases.
She has written for Teen Vogue about the impacts of systemic racism and anti-Blackness within the criminal legal system, particularly in the context of the 2020 uprisings.
Iveliz is a longtime NLG member, one of the founding members of TUPOCC Chicago and a pervious member of the NLG Chicago Board. She has organized both inside and outside NLG in supporting the Puerto Rican community here in Chicago. This has included walking tours of Humboldt Park for NLG members to learn about the Puerto Rican Independence movement and the fight against gentrification here in the city, helping to organize legal support for Puerto Ricans forced to come to Chicago after Hurricane Maria, and organizing events to support lawyers fighting the legality of austerity legislation on the island.
Have you RSVP’d for the Annual Celebration yet? Do so here!
Patricia Handlin to be honored with Kinoy Award!
Pat Handlin is a criminal defense and civil attorney based in Chicago who has represented over twenty Water Protectors facing misdemeanor charges stemming from the Standing Rock No DAPL movement. Pat spent time staffing the legal tent at Oceti Sakowin camp in winter 2016 and has been one of the most active Pro Hac attorneys, continuing through 2019. She has filed innovative and creative motions, emphasizing tribal rights when appropriate. She has shown extreme sympathy to the legal, political and emotional situation of arrested water protectors.
She also provided pro bono legal research support for the challenge to TC Energy’s permit application in South Dakota to use water for the KXL pipeline and represented Water Protectors in Minnesota who were arrested protesting construction of the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline. She has been a public defender, legal services attorney, administrative law judge on employment discrimination matters, represented numerous Occupy Chicago activists, and has litigated to protect victims of elder abuse, neglect and financial exploitation.
Sponsor Our 2022 Annual Celebration!
Are you or your organization interested in sponsoring our Annual Celebration this year? You can purchase sponsorships at: https://bit.ly/NLGCHI2022
And of course you can buy event tickets there as well! If you have any questions contact us at chicago@nlg.org
- For $100, purchase a name listing in our program book.
- For $250, get a sponsorship at our Movement Lawyer level. Your quarter-screen message will be featured in our event slideshow (25 words max). Plus, you’ll get promotion on our event website.
- For $500, sponsor at the Community Builder level. Your half-screen ad including an image will be featured in our event slideshow (50 words max). You’ll get promotion on our event website AND a sponsorship listing in the program booklet Sponsorship at this level also helps us bring in the live band who will give you a special shoutout!
- For $1000, sponsor at the Revolutionary Level. This buys you a full-screen ad with image that will be featured in our event slideshow (100 words max). Plus, promotion on our event website and a sponsorship listed in the program booklet.
