Organization
Disability Rights Advocates(DRA)
A national nonprofit disability rights legal centre founded in 1993 in Berkeley, California. DRA pursues high-impact class action litigation to advance the rights, inclusion, and equity of people with all types of disabilities.
About
Disability Rights Advocates (DRA) was founded in 1993 by attorneys Larry Paradis and Sid Wolinsky in Berkeley, California. With offices in Berkeley, New York, and Chicago, DRA is one of the leading nonprofit disability rights legal centres in the country. Many of DRA's attorneys have disabilities themselves.
What They Do
DRA pursues systemic class action litigation — taking cases where a single legal victory can produce widespread improvements for large numbers of disabled people. Practice areas span education, employment, healthcare, transportation, housing, technology, telecommunications, emergency planning, voting rights, and access to public facilities and services.
Who They Serve
People with all types of disabilities who are affected by large-scale, systemic civil rights violations. DRA does not take individual cases; it focuses on litigation with the broadest possible impact for disabled communities across the United States.
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