Police brutality dominated the past year’s headlines, but it also refocused the National Bar Association, the nation’s oldest and largest organization of African-American lawyers. During the group’s annual convention last week in Los Angeles, leaders urged hundreds of lawyers to take more civil cases and advocate for legislation and politicians who oppose the use of excessive force. The association represents more than 65,000 lawyers, judges, educators and law students.
“This is our audience. You are our family,” said Nicole Lee, founder of the Black Law Movement Project, which has been training attorneys since the protests in Ferguson, Missouri, following the police shooting death of Michael Brown. “We think black attorneys can play a unique role in this movement.”
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