TAKING THE FIGHT TO EXTREMISTS
Paul, Weiss’s Center to Combat Hate brings impact litigation to confront and redress hate-driven violence and intimidation. Through partnerships with civil rights organizations and educational institutions, as well as through independent litigation, the Center fights to safeguard vulnerable communities and groups and foster a more just and equitable society.
STANDING UP TO HATE-DRIVEN VIOLENCE AND INTIMIDATION.
For nearly a century, Paul, Weiss has had an unwavering commitment to advancing civil rights and combatting racism and xenophobia.
From Walter Pollak’s successful appeal overturning the conviction of the Scottsboro Boys in 1935; to assisting Thurgood Marshall in overturning the doctrine of “separate but equal” in the seminal Supreme Court case, Brown v. Board of Education, in 1954; to its role in obtaining a groundbreaking verdict in Sines v. Kessler in 2021 against white supremacist groups engaging in conspiracy to commit racially motivated violence in Charlottesville, Paul, Weiss has been defined by its pro bono commitment to expand and protect civil rights.
Our firm has and continues to develop deep partnerships with the nation’s preeminent civil rights organizations, whose subject matter expertise guides our impact litigation strategy.
The firm’s co-counsel and partners in its impact litigation have included the ACLU, the Anti-Defamation League, the Brennan Center for Justice, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, the Southern Poverty Law Center and others.
Today, the Center to Combat Hate takes Paul, Weiss’s work a step further by facilitating even closer partnerships with civil rights organizations, clients and academic institutions to combat white nationalist and other hate-based extremism through the court system and other avenues of legal advocacy.
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