Join NLADA in Honoring Laura Stein of The Clorox Company and NLADA's 2012 Equal Justice Heroes
NLADA Exemplar Award - Laura Stein, The Clorox Company
To honor her many years of service as a champion for pro bono assistance, her commitment to diversity and her mentorship of young women lawyers, the National Legal Aid & Defender Association (NLADA) is delighted and honored to present its 2012 Exemplar Award to Laura Stein, senior vice president and general counsel at The Clorox Company.
NLADA has presented the Exemplar Award annually since 1991, to pay tribute to those lawyers who set an example by their extraordinary vision, dedication, achievement and leadership in providing quality representation and access to justice for people unable to afford a lawyer. Stein will be honored during the NLADA Exemplar Award Dinner on Wednesday, June 6, 2012 at The Fairmont Hotel in Washington.
For more information, please contact Deborah Dubois, Vice President of Development, Marketing & Communications at d.dubois@nlada.org or Kara Allinson, Development and Marketing Associate at k.allinson@nlada.org.
Welcome to NLADA as we celebrate our centennial year of fighting to secure equal access to our justice system in America.
This historic 100th year brings a unique opportunity to reflect on the enormous impact our organization has made over the years toward balancing the scales of justice. NLADA has pioneered access to justice at the national, state and local levels and has influenced nearly every landmark case and legislative and policy initiative that has shaped America's justice system.
One of the bedrock principles of American society is that all people—whether rich or poor—are entitled to justice. As a nation, justice is the tie that binds us.
Yet for a variety of complex and interrelated reasons, our justice system is in crisis: legal aid and public defender programs are severely underfunded; attorney caseloads are overwhelming; people are turned away without representation. The evidence of this crisis abounds.
The Legal Services Corporation estimated that in 2009 it was unable to serve almost one million people who sought assistance. At the height of our nation’s economic downturn—with poverty at an historic high and evictions, unemployment and foreclosures at epidemic levels, for every person that was served by a legal services program, one eligible person was turned away.
NLADA Exemplar Award - Laura Stein, The Clorox Company
Welcome to NLADA as we celebrate our centennial year of fighting to secure equal access to our justice system in America.
