Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF)

About Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF)

The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1974 and based in New York City. It describes itself as a national group that works with Asian American communities across the country, combining litigation, advocacy, education, and organizing. Its stated model centers on community lawyering, and it has been involved in matters ranging from Japanese American reparations advocacy to challenges to post-9/11 profiling and responses to anti-Asian violence during the pandemic.

Its listed practice areas include civil rights, immigration, and employment and labor matters, with free legal clinics for low-income and immigrant Asian Americans covering immigration, family law, government benefits, and police misconduct. Its immigration work includes naturalization help and filings tied to forms such as DACA, T visas and U visas. The group also runs legal training for community organizers and students in public interest law. It states that it receives no government funds. Its New York presence is a 12th-floor office at 99 Hudson Street in New York City.

Practice areas

Areas of work that Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) describes on its own website. They describe the organization as a whole, not the practice of any individual attorney listed below.

Organization profile based on its official website and public sources (reviewed October 29, 2026). Attorney list from the New York State Unified Court System registration data. Not affiliated with Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF).

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