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Monica Ramirez Almadani is the next President & CEO of Public Counsel.
Introducing Our New President and CEO Monica Ramirez Almadani is Public Counsel's new President and Chief Executive Officer and holder of the Helen & Morgan Chu CEO Distinguished Chair. She comes to Public Counsel with nearly two decades of experience advocating for the rights of underserved communities.

VICTORY! The U.S. 9th Circuit Court Affirms Tenant Protections in Los Angeles In a ruling that preserved decades of jurisprudence, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled with the City of Los Angeles and intervenors Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment Action (ACCE) and Strategic Actions for a Just Economy (SAJE) that the emergency housing protections put in place in 2020 at the start of the COVID pandemic in Los Angeles are just.

New Report Exposes How Flawed Food Laws Fail Street Vendors A new report by the UCLA School of Law Community Economic Development Clinic and the nonprofit law firm Public Counsel uncovers how little-known and poorly designed food laws make it functionally illegal for most street vendors to sell food, despite landmark efforts to legalize it.

Public Counsel's Kathryn Eidmann Named to the Daily Journal's 2021 Top 40 Under 40 List Kathryn Eidmann, supervising senior attorney of Public Counsel’s Opportunity Under Law project, has been named as one of California’s top 40 lawyers under 40 by the Daily Journal. The annual list celebrates the achievements of lawyers under the age of 40 in California.

09/09/2021
Former President & CEO Hernan Vera Nominated to Federal District Court by President Biden Public Counsel is celebrating yesterday’s announcement by President Biden that he will nominate a diverse group for federal judgeships, including Hernán Vera, Public Counsel’s former president & CEO. Vera joined Public Counsel in 2002 as directing attorney of its Consumer Law Project and served as its President and CEO from 2008-2014.

08/11/2021
New Report Exposes Why Street Vendors Are Still Being Ticketed and Harassed By Law Enforcement In Los Angeles A new report by Public Counsel and the UCLA School of Law Community Economic Development Clinic uncovers how little-known and poorly designed food laws make it functionally illegal for most street vendors to sell food, despite landmark efforts to legalize it.

04/07/2021
Public Counsel Announces New President & CEO Public Counsel announced today the selection of Monica Ramirez Almadani as its next President and Chief Executive Officer and holder of the Helen & Morgan Chu CEO Distinguished Chair. She brings nearly two decades of civil rights experience advocating for the rights of underserved communities to the nation’s largest pro bono law firm.

05/14/2021
Milestone Settlement in Higher Education Reached Between Students and University of California

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01/14/2015
LA Times: Skid row doctor's care includes finding patients a home Los Angeles Times A new County program uses county Department of Health Services money to subsidize rents for the very sick among the county's 39,000 homeless people. Experts call it the nation's most promising initiative to end homelessness.

01/09/2015
Los Angeles Times: Activists fear that big-project zoning change would ignore L.A.'s poor Los Angeles Times Newly proposed rules meant to smooth the way for vetting big developments in Los Angeles are stirring up alarm among community groups that say the plan doesn't do enough to protect poor households or small businesses from being displaced.

01/05/2015
California Health Report: High school students push for playgrounds in small cities southeast of L.A. California Health Report A group of high school students from Southeast L.A. County is learning to lobby for green space and greater play opportunities for the area’s youngest children.

50 Years of Justice: Anniversary Livestream Special
Gov. Gavin Newsom Accepts Public Counsel's 2019 William O. Douglas Award
2019 William O Douglas Awards Dinner
Mike Farrell Accepts Public Counsel's 2018 William O. Douglas Award
Grammy-nominated musical guest Aloe Blacc Performs at the 2018 Douglas Dinner
Mike Farrell -- Recipient of the 2018 William O. Douglas Award
Rev. James M. Lawson, Jr. Accepts Public Counsel's 2017 William O. Douglas Award
The Campaign to Legalize Street Vending In L.A.
Dignity for Wounded Warriors and Their Caretakers