Laurence E. Norton II

Education:
LL.B., B.A., Yale

Laurence E. Norton II has thirty-five years of legal aid experience and is currently employed by the Community Justice Project and Texas Rural Legal Aid where he advocates for low-income people in the Farm Worker Division. Mr. Norton has experience with housing, public benefits, employment and criminal appeals for indigents. He has also been substantially involved in more than thirty class action suits and Fair Labor Standards Act litigation in the past twenty years.

An adjunct professor who teaches Legal Problems of Indigents, Mr. Norton has authored and co-authored numerous publications on employment and other farm worker issues, including newspaper pieces in the New York Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Mr. Norton is a Board Member with the Farm Worker Litigation Support Fund and with Friends of Farm Workers.

Contact Information:
Email: lnorton@palegalaid.net