The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund named him lawyer of the year in 1966.

After graduating he practiced law with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.

More than 520 such cases in which the NAACP Legal Defense took part reached the Supreme Court.

Each time, "it was a lawyer from the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund who came to my rescue," he said yesterday.

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund released the results of its specially commissioned poll last week.

Briggs has served as an expert witness for the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund in civil rights litigation.

Yet the courts are sending fewer people to death row, according to figures compiled by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.

From there, he became assistant counsel to the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund Inc.

Columbia, whose law faculty he joined in 1984 after years as director of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, has had its own symposiums.

Baeza's office telephone has a direct line to the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, where he is a member of the board.