FAQ: Justice for Kids - Legal Advocacy for Vulnerable Children

What is Justice for Kids and what is its main focus?

Justice for Kids is a unique law practice that focuses on helping children who have been harmed by systems designed to protect them, such as child protection and disability services, through personal injury damages lawsuits and cases involving abuse, negligence, and civil rights violations.

Who founded Justice for Kids and why was it created?

Justice for Kids was co-founded by Justin Grosz, Howard Talenfeld, and Stacie Schmerling to provide comprehensive legal support to children who’ve suffered catastrophic harm from abuse and neglect, ensuring they have strong advocates fighting for their rights and well-being.

What types of clients does Justice for Kids serve?

They serve children who have been harmed in child welfare systems including foster homes, group homes, shelters, residential treatment facilities, schools, and day care centers, representing them through guardians, next friends, court-appointed attorneys, and family members.

What types of cases does Justice for Kids handle?

They handle cases involving physical and sexual abuse in foster care, negligence and oversight failures, child exploitation and trafficking, negligent care and supervision, civil rights violations, and adoption negligence.

What is the main goal of Justice for Kids?

Their main goal is to give vulnerable children a voice and the chance at the future they truly deserve by pursuing justice, securing substantial awards for damages, and driving legislative and judicial change.

What are some of the biggest issues Justice for Kids addresses?

They commonly address systemic failures where protection systems fail children through bad actors, lack of action, poor policy, negligence, apathy, or civil rights violations, often resulting in catastrophic harm to children.

How is Justice for Kids structured organizationally?

Justice for Kids is a division of Kelley Kronenberg, a national law firm, and consists of a team of experienced children’s rights and personal injury attorneys focused exclusively on representing vulnerable children.

Who represents the children in Justice for Kids cases?

Children are represented through their guardians, next friends, court-appointed attorneys, guardians ad litem, adoptive parents, parents, and grandparents, with the legal team providing strong advocacy on their behalf.

What makes Justice for Kids unique as a law practice?

It is uniquely focused on representing society’s most vulnerable children who have been harmed by the very systems designed to protect them, with a narrow specialization in children’s rights and personal injury cases affecting youth.