New and Noteworthy

■ LAC Honors Marcy Engel and, posthumously, Michael K. Deaver

On Tuesday, November 18th, 2008, Legal Action Center will honor this year’s recipients of the Arthur Liman Public Interest Award: Marcy Engel, Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel of Eton Park Capital Management, L.P., and, posthumously, Michael K. Deaver, former Deputy Chief of Staff to President Reagan, Vice Chairman of Edelman International, and LAC Board member. The event will be chaired by Stephen M. Cutler, the General Counsel at JPMorgan Chase & Co., and Brad S. Karp, Partner and Chair-elect of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP.

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■ Whoopi Goldberg Joins LAC at Rockefeller Hearings

The New York State Assembly held a hearing on May 8^th-- the 35^th anniversary of the enactment of the New York State’s notorious Rockefeller Drug Laws. Thanks to great film director and LAC Board member Doug Liman and Jason Flom, we were joined by Whoopi Goldberg who was eager to offer her perspective "as just a normal person and as a New Yorker" about the need to get rid of a law that is causing much more harm than the problem it was intended to address. (Read more)

■ LAC Celebrates Passage of Second Chance Act

On March 13th, 2008, Congressman Danny Davis (D-IL) hosted a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, DC to celebrate the recent passage of the "Second Chance Act" reentry legislation in Congress.  (Read More)

Project Highlights

■ After Prison: Roadblocks to Reentry. A State-by-State Report Card

A landmark two-year study of the legal obstacles that people with criminal records face when they attempt to reenter society. In order to help advocates eliminate these unfair roadblocks, the Legal Action Center has developed advocacy kits on 12 critically important policy, funding and legal issues that can be used to remove nearly all of the most harmful roadblocks to re-entry.
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