The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press announced Leslie Briggs as its Oklahoma Local Legal Initiative staff attorney, adding capacity to the program that operates in five states providing dedicated pro bono legal support for local enterprise and investigative reporting.
“We’re thrilled to welcome Leslie Briggs to the Reporters Committee and to the Local Legal Initiative,” said Reporters Committee Vice President of Legal Lisa Zycherman. “Her depth of experience as a litigator in Oklahoma will help us meet the growing need in the state for legal support for local journalists and newsrooms, especially those who are members of and covering the dozens of federally recognized tribes in the state.”
A Tulsa native, Briggs joins the Reporters Committee from the Oklahoma Appleseed Center for Law & Justice, a nonprofit that fights for justice and opportunity for all Oklahomans, where she served as its legal director.
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