Our Issues
AAJ protects the constitutional right to a trial by jury and safeguards the right to pursue justice in court for harms caused by the negligence or misconduct of others.
AAJ stands for the right to a jury trial and works tirelessly to oppose any limits on this individual right.
AAJ stands for the right to a jury trial. CEO Linda Lipsen and AAJ President Tobi Millrood shared insights about how AAJ will work to protect this right moving forward. Read More.
Corporations are demanding sweeping immunity when they expose their workers or customers to COVID-19—allowing them to evade responsibility when they fail to protect our health and safety.
Join the FightTrial lawyers work tirelessly to seek justice for the victims of police brutality and civil rights abuses, and AAJ supports their work in many ways.
Learn MoreIndividuals and families seeking justice in our nation’s courtrooms face overwhelming odds when up against large and powerful corporations. This is why AAJ recognizes that selecting judicial nominees with experience and expertise in representing individuals is of paramount importance in order to restore fairness and transparency to the federal judiciary. It is time for the next president to nominate attorneys who have fought to enforce the rights and protections of people, not corporations. It is time to restore balance to the judiciary by selecting nominees who have demonstrated, through trial experience, community service, civic engagement, academic contributions or legislative efforts, a commitment to respecting and empowering an individual's civil and human rights as well as the ability to access the courts in order to enforce those rights.AAJ's Executive Committee's Statement on Judicial Nominees to the Federal Bench, adopted June 30, 2020.
Historic Forced Arbitration Win – Helping Workers, Seniors, and Consumers
In 2019, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the FAIR Act to end forced arbitration in all its forms. AAJ stands strong in the face of the relentless corporate assault against your clients’ rights. Together, let’s make forced arbitration a relic of the past.
Learn About the FAIR ActThe Constitution of the United States of America guarantees "In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law." Join AAJ to Support This Right
