Elizabeth Ford, ‘Alt-Legal Services: Re-Visioning Lawyers’ Role In The Fight For Worker Power’, 46 Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law 1 (2025). Elizabeth Ford’s ‘Alt-Legal Services’ offers a bold and refreshing take on the role of lawyers in worker movements. Can lawyers empower workers – or do they undermine organizing efforts? Ford tackles this long-standing debate head-on, arguing that the tension stems from competing ideas about what worker power really means. Her perceptive solution: a new model of ‘alt-legal services’ that fuses legal advocacy with grassroots organizing to build worker power. Ford argues that when people disagree about the role of legal services for worker power, they tend to misunderstand what it entails … (more)
[Cesar Rosado Marzán, JOTWELL, 25 June 2025]
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