Why Civil Legal Aid is Fundamental to the Rule of Law
Ariel Levinson-Waldman is the Founding President of Tzedek DC, a nonprofit legal services organization that has as its mission safeguarding the legal rights of low-income DC-area individuals facing life-altering debt collection lawsuits and other consumer protection crises. Mr. Levinson-Waldman is a graduate of Northwestern University and the University of Chicago Law School, where he was a student attorney in the Mandel Legal Aid Clinic Employment Discrimination Project and an editor on the University of Chicago Law Review. He has handled or supervised a broad range of litigation matters in cases ranging from constitutional controversies to debt collection defense cases in DC Superior Court.
This event is co-sponsored by the American Constitution Society, the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies, and the Jewish Law Students Association. This event is free and open to the public, but seating may be limited. Lunch provided.