I am a labor lawyer with a long history of involvement in left politics. I was asked by this group to write an article for their magazine, and did so. Only later, meeting with the Director of the local NYC office, who is not a lawyer, did it become apparent that something was not right. I did some research and discovered that they were, as mentioned by an earlier ceommentator, a front group for a "communist" group. Now I have no problem, per se, with groups that identify as communist or Marxist, but these folks are fringe cultists who hide their politics, are run by non-lawyers, and will not work with any other groups on the left (National Lwyers Guild, etc.). They live communally taking the income of their hard core members, and, members associated with their inner grouping were arrested in Brooklyn about a decade ago with a house full of weapons. Their deal appears to be to offer real services to poor communties (recruiting legitimate lawyers who do not know what this group is really about to give advice at public sessions) and using these services to recruit potential members to the concentric circles of their parent organization. They are very good at posing as legitimate - they have come to public interest legal job fairs at NYU and elsewhere to recruit - BUT THEY ARE NOT. If you are a progressive lawyer and want to do real work on behalf of the oppressed, check out the Lawyers Guild.