Our Legal System is Rigged, &
Working People Pay the Price
Conservative and corporate interests have spent decades building a legal system that works for the wealthy and the powerful, not the people. It’s going to take deep, hard organizing work—a true movement dedicated to real justice, within and outside of our legal system—in order to build a better future. Will you join us?
About Us
People’s Parity Project is a movement of attorneys and law students organizing for a democratized legal system which values people over profits, builds the power of working people, and opposes subordination of anyform.
Together, we are dismantling a profession that upholds corporate power and building a legal system that is a force for justice and equity.
Our work focuses on building power for working people in the civil legal system through organizing, policy innovation, political education, and solidarity.
COMMUNITY
Bringing together lawyers and law students from around the country to unrig the law.
ORGANIZING
Doing the organizing and strategic short- and long-term advocacy needed to build a legal system that works for the people.
POWER
Building the power of the people at all levels of our democracy.
Upcoming Events
Register Now: 2024 Convening
This summer, law students, attorneys, and legal advocates from around the country are joining together to unf*ck the law. From June 28–30, 2024, People’s Parity Project (PPP) will convene our […]
The Latest
PPP in the News: The Courts Will Never Save Us
Troy Brown writes for The [F]law that, "the Court [is] a shaky foundation on which to try to build a more just society." "But as progressives contemplate the future of the judiciary, it’s becoming increasingly clear that the left’s strategy has to go far beyond...
PPP in the News: Clinton, Obama Circuit Judges Shun Retirement as Election Looms
Tiana Headley writes for Bloomberg Law that, "Most Democratic-appointed appellate judges eligible for a form of semi-retirement are hanging onto their seats as the election year tests President Joe Biden’s goal of reshaping the federal circuit courts." "Several of the...
PPP in the News: The Legal Profession Still Won’t Hold Coup Sympathizers Accountable
PPP's own Molly Coleman writes for Balls & Strikes that, "Jones Day is back on its bullshit" as the firm fights for the right of insurrectionists to appear on the ballot. "And what happens when lawyers try to overturn elections without consequence? They do it...
PPP in the News: The Government Spent Decades Poisoning Marines at Camp Lejeune. Now It Wants Courts to Let It Off the Hook
PPP's own Steve Kennedy writes for Balls and Strikes that, "Military servicemembers and their families should be able to have juries hear their cases against a government that poisoned them. Yet even after Congress ensured that Camp Lejeune veterans have the right to...
PPP in the News: State Courts’ Growing Politicization May Get Worse In 2024
Jack Karp writes for Law 360 that "state judiciaries are becoming more overtly political, and important elections, rulings and ethics cases could exacerbate that partisanship in 2024": A similar dynamic is playing out in North Carolina, where Democratic Supreme Court...
PPP’s Statement on the Fourth Circuit’s Ruling Allowing the Judicial Standards Commission to Continue its Sham Investigation Against Justice Anita Earls
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 8, 2023 People's Parity Project Statement on the Fourth Circuit's Ruling Allowing the Judicial Standards Commission to Continue its Sham Investigation Against Justice Anita Earls Richmond, VA — Today, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals...
PPP in the News: Not just the Supreme Court: Ethics troubles plague state high courts, too
Aaron Mendelson writes for The Center for Public Integrity that, "across the country, state high courts wield enormous power over abortion, LGBTQ+ rights and elections, among other issues. But judicial ethics at the state level receive scant attention." “I hear people...
PPP in the News: The Supreme Court’s Utter Disregard for Science Is Somehow About to Get Worse
PPP's own Steve Kennedy wrote for Slate that, "even before the installation of its conservative supermajority, the court had long viewed scientific evidence that runs contrary to its policy preferences with contempt." "Skepticism of an inconvenient scientific...