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“I will seek someone who understands that justice isn’t about some abstract legal theory or footnote in a casebook. It’s about how our laws affect the daily realities of people’s lives — whether they can make a living and care for their families, whether they feel safe in their homes, and welcome in their own nation.”

President Obama, Los Angeles Times May 2, 2009 p.1 (Obama Says Empathy Key to Court Pick)

Feel welcome in your nation?

Injustice in the justice system injures everyone. Join or help the NAAMJP. See our Membership Page. Our purpose is to eliminate State licensing tests for experienced attorneys who seek to travel interstate and to put an end to the separate but equal era for members of the bar. It is hard enough for businesses and lawyers competing in a 21st Century global world as it is without the government putting up licensing re-invent the wheel walls at every State boundary line.

Are you an experienced licensed attorney that is automatically disqualified for admission on motion in another State or District Court because of territorial licensing walls? 

Feel Welcome in State and District Courts that provide more privileges and immunities to foreign country lawyers than sister-state lawyers? Join or help the NAAMJP. See our Membership Page.

Are you admitted or denied admission in a State that provides tit-for-tat reciprocity, i.e., you get reciprocity if our lawyers get reciprocity in your home State?

Should American citizens and corporations have the right to choose their own lawyer? In the European Union, where 23 languages are spoken in 27 countries, cross-border practice and reciprocal admission on motion is the norm.

Join or help the NAAMJP bring the practice of law in our more perfect Union into the 21st Century. See our Membership Page.

"He who looks upon a conflict between right and wrong, and does not help the right against the wrong, despises and insults his own nature, and invites the contempt of mankind." - Frederick Douglass

Our Directors

Joseph Robert Giannini has B.B.A. from Temple University and a J.D. from Temple University School of Law (1983). He is a member in good standing of the bar of the Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and U.S. Supreme Court, as well as numerous other federal courts. He has attended Gerry Spence’s Trial Lawyers College. He is a member of the American Bar Association’s Litigation Section and Legal Education and Admissions. He testified before and presented written argument to the ABA MJP Commission hearing in San Diego. See “A Nationwide Need for the Primacy of the First Amendment Rights to Advocate, Associate, and Petition in the New Millennium” at http://www.abanet.org/cpr/mjp/mjp-giannini_witness.html. He has written numerous articles published in legal newspapers calling for full reciprocal bar admission. He spearheaded legislation in California that was enacted into law 99-0 in 2000 calling for full reciprocal admission for experienced sister-state attorneys, that was subsequently, diluted to provide only second class limited bar admission privileges for corporate counsel and attorneys working for qualified pro bono organizations with the promise the issue would be re-visited in a few years.

Jeffrey L. Russell is a graduate of the University of Akron School of Law (1974). He has 16 years experience as an Assistant United States Attorney having served as a federal prosecutor in the Northern District of Ohio (Cleveland), Southern District of Florida (Miami), Central District of California (Los Angeles), Northern District of California (San Francisco and San Jose ), and the Department of Justice Headquarters in Washington, D.C. Mr. Russell has conducted 45 criminal trials in seven United States District Courts, and he has successfully argued appeals in the First, Sixth, Ninth, and Eleventh Circuits. He is a member of the bar of the Supreme Court of Ohio, Supreme Court of the United States, and many other federal courts. He testified before and presented written argument to the ABA MJP Commission hearing in San Diego. See http://www.abanet.org/cpr/mjp/mjp-russell_witness.html

Robert Bloom is a graduate of Northwestern and he holds a J.D. form New York University School of Law (1965). He is admitted to practice in New York, the United States Supreme Court, the Ninth Circuit, and the Northern District of California. He has been counsel for defendant in numerous high profile criminal cases including Geronimo Pratt.

Kenneth Owen is a graduate with Great Distinction, from Oakland College of Law. He has an L.L.M. with honors from Golden Gate University School of Law. He is a member of bar of the Arizona Supreme Court, Sixth, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, and D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. He has authored, Environmental Justice Enforcement Requires Reassessment Under the Equal Protection Clause, Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and Environmental Statutes. 30 Golden Gate University Law Review 379. Mr. Owens is an Instructor of Constitutional Law and Environmental Law at Oakland College of Law.