Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : lawyers as problem solvers in crisis / Ray Brescia and Eric K. Stern -- A client's vrisis becomes a legal crisis : a domestic violence ruling goes global / Caroline Bettinger-López -- Crisis lawyering in a lawless space : reflections on nearly two decades of representing Guantánamo detainees / Baher Azmy -- Responding to the (dual) policing crisis in Ferguson / Christy E. Lopez -- When crisis comes to the newsroom : the media lawyer in a time of global unrest / David E. McCraw -- Crisis in the courts : the campaign to get ICE out of New York State Courts / Lee Wang -- Preparation, crisis, struggle, ideas : the birth of the detention outreach project / Sarah Rogerson -- Key considerations for lawyers shepherding communities through long-term recovery from major disasters / John Travis Marshall -- Judging and mediating for 'the long emergency' : Superstorm Sandy, New York State's regulatory response to the climate change crisis, and reforming the energy vision / Eleanor Stein -- Litigation for the homeless in the 1980s : a look back / Richard Pinner -- Scaling worker cooperatives as an economic justice tool for communities in crises / Carmen Huertas-Noble, Missy Risser-Lovings, and Christopher Adams -- The crisis comes once a year : lawyering on election day / David Turetsky -- Bordering on crisis : overcoming multi-agency crisis coordination challenges / Brian Wilson & Nora Johnson --Legal advice in crisis training for government lawyers : perspectives from the USA and Sweden / Eric K. Stern, Brad Kieserman, Torkel Schlegel, Per-Ake Mortenson, and Ella Carlberg -- Call Air Traffic Control! : confronting crisis as lawyers and teachers / Muneer Ahmad and Michael J. Wishnie -- Leveraging lawyer strengths and training them to support team problem-solving under crisis conditions / Scott Westfahl -- Stay calm and carry on : how to stay on point when in a crisis / Jay Sullivan -- Conclusion / Ray Brescia and Eric Stern.

"Crisis Lawyering" explores effective legal advocacy in emergency situations"-- Provided by publisher.