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Law Environmental

How to Fight for What's Right

The Citizen's Guide to Public Interest Law

by (author) John Swaigen

Publisher
James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers
Initial publish date
Jan 1981
Category
Environmental
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780888624222
    Publish Date
    Jan 1981
    List Price
    $12.95
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780888624239
    Publish Date
    Jan 1981
    List Price
    $45.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781552773598
    Publish Date
    Feb 2008
    List Price
    $45.00

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How to Fight for What's Right is a guide for both lawyers and lay people offering guidance through the legal thickets they face when they take on government and business in the courts.

This book will meet the needs of environmentalists, civil rights organizations, consumer groups, lawyers, and legal staff of community law clinics--it's the guide that shows citizen groups how to use the legal system to their advantage.

First published in 1981, How to Fight for What's Right remains a practical and useful guide to advocacy and the law.

About the author

John Swaigen is a lawyer who started his career in 1974 as a member of the staff of a financially struggling nonprofit environmental organization. Over the years, he has served on the board of directors of several nonprofit groups and has raised money for projects ranging from organizing community opposition to damaging urban development to writing and publishing books on how to fight for social justice. He also has professional experience in evaluating the efficiency and effectiveness of nonprofit groups.

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