Last month, we were thrilled to celebrate 20 years of Lambda Legal in Fort Lauderdale with so many wonderful supporters and friends. For decades now, numerous clients have come to South Florida to share their powerful stories of resilience and bravery. Our very first Fort Lauderdale event 20 years ago featured speeches from then-clients Aimee Bellmore and Matthew Cusick. Aimee was fired when her employer, the United Methodist Children’s Home, found out she was a lesbian. Matthew was fired by Cir

Stateful Web Service: A Distributed Lambda Function for Client-Server Interactions | Pouya Zadkhast and Vahid Jazayeri Stateless PHP web services are widely used at Meta and they provide great developer experience. However, the stateless nature avoids the services to serve any real-time product experience since they cannot keep a persistent client-server connection or subscribe to server-side events and the constantly-changing data in the social graph. At Meta, we have built a stateful engine wi

Trans people deserve access to sports. 🏃‍♀️ In his blog “Trans People Need Sports and Sports Need Them,” Lambda Legal Counsel Carl Charles shares: “When Lambda Legal goes to the Supreme Court again in January 2026 to defend our Fourth Circuit victory in West Virginia v. B.P.J., we do so knowing that we are fighting for our client’s right to continue to participate in the sports she loves, but also for her right to become an adult that continues to build connections with other people through spo

This Transgender Day of Visibility, we're celebrating trans heroes like our client, WWII veteran and pilot Robina Asti. Robina fought for her rights. And won. #TDOV | Lambda Legal

No one should have to worry about losing their job because of who they are or whom they love. But that’s what happened to our client Kim Hively, a math teacher from Indiana. Today, we argued her case at the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago. Greg Nevins, Lambda Legal's Employment Fairness Program Director, chats about what happened today and shares his first reactions from court with Lambda Legal Public Information Officer Graciela González. | Lambda Legal