An Equal Place: Lawyers in the Struggle for Los AngelesAn Equal Place is a monumental study of the role of lawyers in the movement to challenge economic inequality in one of America's most unequal cities: Los Angeles. Breaking with the traditional focus on national civil rights history, the book turns to the stories of contemporary lawyers, on the front lines and behind the scenes, who use law to reshape the meaning of low wage work in the local economy. Covering a transformative period of L. A. history,