I analyze the UFW's legal strategy as an example of social justice lawyering that offers concrete lessons not only for the labor movement but for other organizing efforts today. Few realize that lawyers and a powerful combination of legal and organizing strategies played important roles in the United Farm Workers' victories. Many are aware of the basic outlines of the UFW story. This article offers new insights on that front, both through a brief overview of the changing relationship between the labor movement, law, and lawyers during the twentieth century, and, more deeply, through an exploration of fifteen years in the specific experience of one union, the United Farm Workers ("the UFW"), between 19. In despair, however, workers and their institutions risk losing sight of critically valuable lessons that emerge from a long view of the labor movement about the varied ways that law can interact with collective efforts to improve working conditions. Today's discussions of the NLRA from the union perspective are tinged with desperation about what law does for and to organizing.
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