By donating to NLG Chicago, you are helping ensure that our city’s robust social movement has a network of attorneys and legal workers ready to provide legal support in the courts and in the streets. Your financial contribution makes it possible for us to organize our members to legal observe protests, host Know Your Rights trainings, consult with activists and provide criminal defense all at no charge to the organizers we’re supporting.
Throughout the 2025, our members have gone above and beyond to support Chicago’s social justice movements in the streets and in the courts:
- NLG Legal Observers were dispatched to more than 200 protests!
- Our Mass Defense Committee coordinated free representation for more than 160 people arrested at protests.
- We have operated an emergency response hotline that dispatched attorneys to meet with dozens of people in police custody and worked with our members to locate community members disappeared by federal agents while documenting ICE activity in their neighborhoods.
- Our chapter has also hosted numerous Know Your Rights Trainings throughout the city and offered multiple CLEs to train up more attorneys in movement lawyering.
Your financial support is critical to sustaining and growing these programs. Our work fighting federal repression comes on the heels of mobilizing to support DNC and RNC protesters and meet the demand of sustained protests for Palestinian liberation. The unrelenting pace and violence of the federal government’s attacks on our communities is taking a real toll on our volunteers. We also have new expenses due to this fascist onslaught including additional hours for our part-time staff, food, water, rideshares, and the creation of restorative spaces for volunteers.
We need your support to help sustain our work in the streets and in the courtroom!
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Gifts to the National Lawyers Guild Chicago are not tax deductible for federal income tax purposes as charitable contributions. If you would like to make a tax-deductible contribution, please donate to the National Lawyers Guild Chicago Foundation by clicking on this link or sending a check to:
National Lawyers Guild – Chicago Foundation
637 S. Dearborn St., 3rd Floor
Chicago, IL 60605
