9/11 Union Project

Shortly after September 11, 2001, NYLPI recognized a need for legal representation for low-income victims of the World Trade Center attacks and their families. NYLPI enlisted nine New York law firms to represent approximately 50 families on a pro bono basis. Most of the victims had worked at Windows on the World and had been members of Local 100 of the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union or had worked as security guards or maintenance employees and had been members of Local 32B-J of the Service Employees International Union. The firms involved in the 9/11 Union Project include: Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, Debevoise & Plimpton, Fragomen, Del Rey Bernsen & Lowey, Herrick Feinstein, Morrison & Foerster, Shearman & Sterling, Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal and Zwerling, Schachter & Zwerling.

New Book Released

New book commemorates September 11-related pro bono services of ZS&Z and other firms on behalf of union family members of victims of the World Trade Center attack.

"...[T]hese lawyers and other professionals...distinguished themselves as members of the "9/11 Project" by providing hope and succor to surviving family members of the most vulnerable victims of terrorist mass murder at the World Trade Center..."

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