Welcome to the Center For Impact Litigation Support
The Center for Impact Litigation Support is a non-profit designed to revolutionize public interest law by empowering the traditional beneficiaries of impact litigation to participate directly in the preparation and management of their cases, learning critical legal skills in the process, across an array of key areas where law and policy intersect, including prison reform, election law, freedom of speech and religious liberty.
About Us
At the Center for Impact Litigation we believe changing law and society begins with empowering the beneficiaries of change, transforming them from spectators in the legal process to active participants. For example, we actively encourage formerly incarcerated individuals to work with the Center in cases designed to address the profound flaws in the current carceral system. As another example, in the area of election law, we encourage campaigns and candidates to work with the Center in researching the law, drafting briefs and strategizing on the most effective ways to change and democratize an election system designed to benefit and protect privileged insiders at the expense of grass-roots campaigns.
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Our Team
Eden P. Quainton
The Founder of the Center comes from a family dedicated to public service. Eden’s father was a U.S. Ambassador who served four presidents from both parties, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton. Eden graduated summa cum laude from Yale University and with distinction from Stanford Law School, where he was an Associate Editor of the Law Review and a co-President of the Moot Court Society. His vision has been to change the way impact litigation operates, with the beneficiaries of litigation actively involved in the cases that can change their lives and society at large.
Jonathan S. Gross
A Co-Founder of the Center, Jonathan is the former Chief Rabbi of Omaha Nebraska, who has married his love of Torah to a passion for the law. Jonathan’s focus in private practice and in his work for the Center is religious liberty, although Jonathan views himself as a defender of individual liberty more broadly. Jonathan has a particular passion for defending the rights of wrongly accused individudals, political underdogs, and free speech mavericks.
Daniel J. Grand
Daniel is the Center’s first “apprentice.” A brilliant polymath, Daniel is a real estate developer, collector, musician, impersonator, and the plaintiff in a case handled by Quainton Law, PLLC, Grand v. University Heights, et al., a federal religious liberty case in which Daniel was prevented from organizing a prayer group in his private home on the grounds that he was seeking to establish an illegal “pop-up” synagogue. Like Jonathan, Daniel has a love of Torah and a passion for the law. As a true free spirit, Daniel is seeking to qualify for admission as a New York attorney by serving as an apprentice at the Center under the special provisions of Section 520.4 of the Rules of the New York Court of Appeals.
Welcome to the Center For Impact Litigation Support
Our Work
Our Cases
The Center intervenes directly as a party in cases it supports, whether alongside another principal plaintiff, as amicus, or as primary counsel. Our focus is on election law, religious liberty, freedom of speech and discrimination of any kind. We aim to be radically non-partisan, and fearless in taking on clients or causes that may be unpopular if the underlying principle or policy involved reflects our core values: truly participatory and honest elections, freedom of expression and religion, and the value
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Cases We Support
The mission of the Center is also to provide support to cases litigated by others in which our attorneys, interns, paralegals, and apprentices provide services at steeply discounted “low bono” rates.
Apprenticeship
New York is one of the few states that permits individuals to sit for the bar examination and to become admitted as attorneys on the basis of apprenticeship in a law office. The Center believes that providing individuals with non-traditional avenues to bar admission membership is consistent with its core values of empowering the beneficiaries of litigation — in this case the apprentices themselves — to use the legal system as a means of achieving their own individual dreams.
Corporate Services
Our team members also provide low bono and/or pro bono services to invidivuals and entities willing to commit a portion of their own time and effort into participating in the outcome of their matters, whether by assisting in drafting of contracts, organizing closings, or researching applicable laws, rules and regulations under the supervision of lawyers at the Center.