Baltimore’s Legacy of Movement Lawyering: Women Who Practice Law as Resistance - Stacey Abrams Newsroom https://stacey-abrams-ecosystem.mmcxchange.com/ Fri, 22 May 2026 15:29:11 -0400 en-US hourly 1 Baltimore Times RSS Hub Baltimore’s Legacy of Movement Lawyering: Women Who Practice Law as Resistance https://stacey-abrams-ecosystem.mmcxchange.com/detail/baltimores-legacy-of-movement-lawyering-women-who-practice-law-as-resistance_1777055406 Fri, 16 Jan 2026 08:00:18 -0500 https://stacey-abrams-ecosystem.mmcxchange.com/detail/baltimores-legacy-of-movement-lawyering-women-who-practice-law-as-resistance_1777055406 Baltimore’s Legacy of Movement Lawyering: Women Who Practice Law as Resistance

I only recently learned the phrase “movement lawyering.” Dorcas Gilmore, at Baltimore Action Legal Team, was the first to say it when I interviewed her for the Baltimore Legacy Project, and though I could gather its meaning from context, I still looked it up. What I found was a definition that landed like clarity: Movement lawyers work in deep collaboration with social movements, leveraging every legal hook possible to build the collective power needed to transform our political and economic systems…]]>