NLG Chicago Annual Celebration 2022!

800 West Buena Avenue,Chicago IL 60613

17 September, 2022

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For the first time in two years, NLG Chicago is excited to announce that our annual celebration will be back in person!Join us for a night of eating, drinking, and merrymaking to support the work of NLG Chicago. Our 2022 celebration will be a chance for lawyers, legal workers, law students, and all our friends and comrades to come together. There will be catered vegan food, a fabulous band, and we will announce the winners of both the Kinoy Award and the annual Trailblazers Award, and more! Space is wheelchair accessible. To best protect ourselves against COVID-19, we will be checking vaccine cards at the door, masks will be required, and the event will be taking place outdoors. For other accessibility inquiries or any additional questions, please email [email protected]. Tickets are on a sliding scale. Please choose which category works for you. If you would like to volunteer in exchange for entry, or if you cannot pay, please email us at [email protected]. MEET OUR HONOREES!NLG Chicago is proud to honor the following individuals with our annual Kinoy Award and Trailblazer Award that highlights movement lawyers who embody what it means to use the law for the people. Patricia Handlin - Kinoy Award Pat Handlin is a criminal defense and civil attorney based in Chicago who has represented over twenty Water Protectors facing misdemeanor charges stemming from the Standing Rock No DAPL movement. Pat spent time staffing the legal tent at Oceti Sakowin camp in winter 2016 and has been one of the most active Pro Hac attorneys, continuing through 2019. She has filed innovative and creative motions, emphasizing tribal rights when appropriate. She has shown extreme sympathy to the legal, political and emotional situation of arrested water protectors. She also provided pro bono legal research support for the challenge to TC Energy’s permit application in South Dakota to use water for the KXL pipeline and represented Water Protectors in Minnesota who were arrested protesting the construction of the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline. She has been a public defender, legal services attorney, administrative law judge on employment discrimination matters, represented numerous Occupy Chicago activists, and has litigated to protect victims of elder abuse, neglect and financial exploitation. Iveliz Orellano - Trailblazer Award Iveliz works as an assistant public defender at the Office of the Cook County Public Defender. In that role, she strives for zealous representation of her clients within the framework of police and prison abolition. She has actively organized with other Assistant Public Defenders to build a more radical, abolitionist framework within the office. She played an instrumental role in trainings coordinated by NLG and the PDs office focused on training PDs on providing representation in protest cases. She has written for Teen Vogue about the impacts of systemic racism and anti-Blackness within the criminal legal system, particularly in the context of the 2020 uprisings. Iveliz is a longtime NLG member, one of the founding members of TUPOCC Chicago and a pervious member of the NLG Chicago Board. She has organized both inside and outside NLG in supporting the Puerto Rican community here in Chicago. This has included walking tours of Humboldt Park for NLG members to learn about the Puerto Rican Independence movement and the fight against gentrification here in the city, helping to organize legal support for Puerto Ricans forced to come to Chicago after Hurricane Maria, and organizing events to support lawyers fighting the legality of austerity legislation on the island.