Public Advocates uses a range of strategies, including litigation and administrative actions, policy advocacy, multi-cultural coalition building, and community development, to promote equity and systemic change. Public Advocates’ present work focuses on education, housing, transit equity, consumer, insurance, and telecommunications issues.

>    Public Advocates is one of the lead counsel in Williams v. State of California, in which a class of children and their families have just reached an historic agreement with the State to ensure children’s basic educational right to qualified teachers, textbooks, and decent facilities.  To assure that school improvements actually reach the neediest students and least advantaged schools, Public Advocates will remain actively involved in legislative advocacy, community organizing and education, and monitoring.

>    Public Advocates has successfully represented inner city drivers in “redlined" zip-code territories denied affordable automobile insurance, women and minority police officers for the City of San Francisco, more than 50,000 Latino, African-American, and Asian educators denied employment opportunities in California public schools, and tens of thousands of pregnant undocumented immigrants denied prenatal care.

>    The firm's clients have included more than seventy diverse community organizations and plaintiff classes, such as the National Council of La Raza, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Association of Mexican American Educators, World Institute on Disability, Chinese for Affirmative Action, and California Rural Indian Health Board.

>    In addition, Public Advocates has helped to launch major, now independent, organizations such as Health Access, Latino Issues Forum, Greenlining Institute, Urban Strategies Council, HomeBase, Disability Rights Advocates, and the Latino Coalition for a Healthy California.