Movement Lawyering

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lawyer-clientrelationshipasapower-sharingandparticipatoryprocessaslawyersareheldaccountablebypolitically-activatedclients thathavethepowertosettheagendaandexecutecampaigns.27 Tobe partoftheorganizingprocessinthismanner,lawyersmustbewilling toengageindeeplearningaboutthecommunitiestheyaimtoserve.28

2.EducatingtheCitizenryandBuildingtheCapacityof Movements

Holt'sbottom-upapproachtolawyeringinthe1960salsopushed lawyerstobeconcernedwithmobilizingcitizenssothattheycould claimtheirpoliticalvoicesandconfrontabusiveauthoritiesthemselves,abeliefthathasbeencarriedintopresentmovementlawyering.29 Inthe1990s,Kinoyemphasizedthepointthatlawyersneededto engageinmasseducationofthepeople30 inordertoensurethattheir fundamentalconstitutionalrightswereprotected.31

Inmoderndaymovementlawyering,educatingcitizenscontinues toplayanimportantrole;educationmobilizespeople,enablingthem toresistlawyerdornination.32 Resistinglawyerdominationiscrucial becauselawyersandthelawarerarelyonthe"frontlinesofsocial, cultural,andlegalchange."Instead,socialmovementsarewhathold thepowertotransformideasandinstitutions.33 Forthisreason,contemporarymovementlawyersarguethatlawyersshouldusetheirlegalworktoaideverydaypeopleincollectivizingtheirresistanceand emboldeningleadersandmovements.34 However,lawyersmustbe carefulnottocreateadependentrelationshipwiththeimpactedcommunityasthiscandisempowerthem.35

3.PursuingAdvocacyOutsideofLitigation

Inthe1960s,Holtalsoencouragedcivilrightsadvocatestodiversifytheirstrategiesandseekjusticeoutsideofthecourtsbylookingto

27. See id. at 1658.

28. See Jim Freeman, Supporting Social Movements: A Brief Guide for Lawyers and Law Students, 12 HASTINGS RACE & PovERTY L.J. 191, 199 (2015) [hereinafter Freeman].

29. See BROWN-NAGIN, supra note 1, at 210.

30. See generally Arthur Kinoy, The Role of the People's Lawyer in the 1990s, 2 TEMP. Pm,'y & C.R. L. REv. 209 (1993).

31. Id. at 222.

32. See Cummings, supra note 10, at 1691-92.

33. Jennifer Ching etal.,A Few Interventions and Offerings from Five Movement Lawyers to the Access to Justice Movement, 87 FORDHAM L. REv. ONLINE 186-87 (2018) [hereinafter Ching].

34. Id. at 188.

35. William P. Quigley, Reflections of Community Organizers: Lawyering for Empower of Community Organizations, 21 Omo N.U. L. REV. 455, 464-66 (1994) [hereinafter Quigley].

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