Yolanda L. Taylor Law Firm PLLC is a client-centric law firm that represents individuals, businesses, nonprofits, and neighborhood groups. Our firm is multidisciplinary and provides legal services in the areas of community economic development law, which includes zoning and land use. We also practice specifically in the areas of Fair Housing, Contract law, Business law, Nonprofit law, and Wills, Trusts & Estates.
CORE Values
compassionate leadership
The Center for Community Law & Equity’s compassionate approach allows us to empathize with our clients, enabling us to transform communities.
Quality
The Center for Community Law & Equity provides quality services that meet and exceed our client’s needs and expectations.
Creativity
The Center for Community Law & Equity provides creative solutions and strategies to solve problems and uncover opportunities for our clients.
Honesty
The Center for Community Law & Equity’s open communication and honest and authentic approach to lawyering is another fundamental value.
Our Mission
Yolanda L. Taylor Law Firm, PLLC also does business as The Center for Community Law and Equity (CCLE) for the purpose of providing advocacy and policy work to its clients. CCLE’s mission is to provide legal strategies and advocacy that advance the legal and policy needs of its clients. CCLE does this through consultation services with nonprofit client groups and representation of community groups interested in engaging policymakers and local elected officials around their identified priorities. CCLE also uses “community lawyering” to support the campaigns of grassroots neighborhood groups seeking to co-create policies that impact growth, development and health.
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RESOURCE: Community-Led Solutions During Challenging Times
Partner Organization: National Community Reinvestment Coalition
During challenging times, assisting communities with identifying structural barriers like access to economic resources, housing, sustainability, stability, or employment opportunities can help build community capacity to take action.
News: Willie Davis Drive and Cleveland Ave residents allowed to stay during inspections
Source: Triad City Beat
Adjunct Professor of Law at Wake Forest University Yolanda Taylor, who is representing seven of the households at the complexes, told TCB that “once the inspections are done, they are planning on examining the city’s report.
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The Center for Community Law & Equity is an assumed name of Yolanda L. Taylor Law Firm, PLLC and is not a public or charitable legal service organization.