How to Fight for What's Right
The Citizen's Guide to Public Interest Law
- Publisher
- James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1981
- Category
- Environmental
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780888624222
- Publish Date
- Jan 1981
- List Price
- $12.95
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780888624239
- Publish Date
- Jan 1981
- List Price
- $45.00
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781552773598
- Publish Date
- Feb 2008
- List Price
- $45.00
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Description
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.