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Watch our new promotional video for the National Lawyers Guild Massachusetts Chapter!

The Massachusetts Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild’s Mass Defense Committee provides legal representation and assistance to the Occupy Boston movement.

If you would like to support our Mass Defense work, please donate to the Guild.

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The National Lawyers Guild Massachusetts Chapter is a non-profit organization and a registered 501(c)(3).  All donations made to the Guild are fully tax deductible.

A portion of the funds raised will go towards the creation of an endowment for the NLG Mass Defense Committee. In addition to providing Legal Observers to political protests, the Mass Defense Committee provides representation in First Amendment cases and files civil lawsuits on behalf of activists.  For more information on the Mass Defense Committee, click here.

Thank you to everyone who has contributed!  Let’s keep working towards our long-term goal of $50,000.

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We are an association of progressive lawyers, law students, paralegals, judges, legal secretaries, and community activists. Our members collaborate in using the law for social, political, and economic justice.

We are an affiliate of the National Lawyers Guild, founded in 1937 as an organization dedicated to the need for basic change in the structure of our political and economic system.

PREAMBLE TO THE NLG CONSTITUTION

(Adopted February 22, 1937, amended July 1971)

The National Lawyers Guild is an association dedicated to the need for basic change in the structure of our political and economic system. We seek to unite the lawyers, law students, legal workers, and jailhouse lawyers of America in an organization which shall function as an effective political and social force in the service of the people, to the end that human rights shall be regarded as more sacred than property interests.

Our aim is to bring together all those who regard adjustments to new conditions as more important than the veneration of precedent; who recognize the importance of safeguarding and extending the rights of workers, women, farmers, and minority groups upon whom the welfare of the entire nation depends; who seek actively to eliminate racism; who work to maintain and protect our civil rights and liberties in the face of persistent attacks upon them; and who look upon the law as an instrument for the protection of the people, rather than for their repression.