Lead Authors
The Harvard Law School LGBTQ+ Advocacy Clinic (HLAC) engages in impact litigation, policy advocacy, and direct representation on behalf of the LGBTQ+ community, with a particular focus on issues affecting underrepresented groups within the LGBTQ+ umbrella. HLAC works with community members, advocates, non-profit organizations, educators, medical professionals, and governmental entities to advance the rights of LGBTQ+ people at both the national and local levels.
Beyond Binary Legal was founded in 2019 by nonbinary people in the legal field to help our communities—everyone who is not exclusively a woman or a man—access the support they need. At Beyond Binary Legal, we aim to facilitate meaningful communication and improve access to resources and support for people living beyond the gender binary by providing nonbinary people with knowledge about the law, and educating advocates and institutions about the needs of gender diverse people.
Sponsors
The National LGBTQ+ Bar Association is a national association of lawyers, judges and other legal professionals, law students, activists, and affiliate lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender legal organizations. The LGBTQ+ Bar promotes justice in and through the legal profession for the LGBTQ+ community in all its diversity.
The American Bar Association's Commission on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI), as one of the four ABA Goal III Entities, leads the Association's commitment to promote full and equal participation of persons of all sexual orientations and gender identities in the American Bar Association, the legal profession, and the justice system.
The National Trans Bar Association's (NTBA) core mission is to support trans people in the legal profession and to increase the trans community’s access to affordable and culturally competent legal services. Specifically, NTBA works to support and empower trans legal professionals and law students; promote the entry of a new generation of trans individuals into the legal profession; build the capacity of the broader legal community to address trans legal needs; foster bold, inclusive, and creative legal strategies to expand formal legal protections for trans people and meaningfully
address issues of equity; and elevate intersectional approaches while identifying opportunities for cross-movement collaboration. NTBA firmly believes that strengthening the numbers, connections, and voices of trans people in the legal profession will, in turn, strengthen the existing movement for trans rights.
The National Association for Law Placement (NALP) is an association of over 3000 legal career professionals who advise law students, lawyers, law offices, and law schools in North America and beyond.
