Announcements

12/06/2011 5,000 Kentucky law enforcement officers will focus their 2012 domestic abuse training on intimate partner sexual abuse, through Legal Momentum's National Judicial Education Program’s web course/resource, Intimate Partner Sexual Abuse: Adjudicating This Hidden Dimension of Domestic Violence Cases. More »

08/26/2011 Legal Momentum celebrates Women's Equality Day, the day the United States ratified the Nineteenth Amendment, giving women the right to vote. More »

05/20/2011 Legal Momentum and allied organizations respond to the sexual assault allegations against Dominique Strauss-Kahn, explaining that sexual violence in the workplace is an all-too-common problem, particularly for immigrant women. More »

04/08/2011 The National Judicial Education Program announces new sexual assault and intimate partner violence resources for judges and professionals across a broad range of disciplines. More »

03/31/2011 Legal Momentum strongly opposes policy riders in the FY 2011 Budget. More »

03/28/2011 Legal Momentum has signed onto an amicus curiae brief in support of Wal-Mart’s female employees. More »

01/27/2011 Elizabeth L. Grayer, a Partner in the Litigation Department of Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, will become the eighth President of Legal Momentum, the women’s legal defense and education fund. Ms. Grayer will join Legal Momentum on February 7, 2011. More »

12/18/2010 By blocking the DREAM Act, legislation that would have provided a path to legal status for undocumented immigrant children who graduate from high school, the Senate failed immigrant women. More »

12/15/2010 The Senate must pass the DREAM Act, legislation with particular significance for immigrant women and their families. The DREAM Act would provide a path to legal status for undocumented immigrant children who graduate from high school, demonstrate good moral character, and complete higher education or serve in the military. More »

12/03/2010 Legal Momentum’s Lynn Hecht Schafran attended the National Leadership Summit on State Court Responses to Domestic Violence in New Orleans, convened to explore how states are using particular Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) funds. The projects presented at the meeting exemplify the extraordinary benefits generated by Legal Momentum’s work to develop, pass and reauthorize VAWA. More »