This year marked the 15th annual ADL Mountain States Region’s Summer Associate Research Program. 33 summer associates from eight prominent law firms participated in this year’s program. Under the direction of a supervising attorney, each summer associate researched an assigned topic and provided a legal memorandum to ADL. Participants in the program provide ADL’s regional and national staff with legal

  For many of you in the Mountain States Region, the school year has already begun. Have the best year ever with resources from ADL! Sign your school up for No Place for Hate! Registration is underway for 2022-23 for ADL’s signature anti-bias education initiative.  Learn more at https://mountainstates.adl.org/no-place-for-hate-info/.   Religious Accommodations for the Jewish High Holy Days As a

As a long-time religious freedom advocate for all Americans, ADL believes that Jews should not have to choose between observing the High Holidays and their school or work obligations. Accommodating those who observe is not only the right thing for schools and employers to do, it is often legally required whether you are physically in a classroom or workplace or

  Colorado voters this November will make decisions on nearly a dozen proposed changes to the state’s laws and constitution. One of those ballot measures is Proposition 115 that would ban and criminalize abortion later in pregnancy. Proposition 115 is a citizen initiative that would change state law, not the constitution, to ban abortions after 22 weeks. It contains an

  Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser was the keynote speaker on July 27 for a virtual meeting celebrating the work of the 2020 ADL Summer Associate Research Program participants.  The group engaged in a discussion about several pertinent topics of the day including information security related to COVID-19 contact tracing, mask mandates, international protests against police brutality, legal response to