Staff Attorney or Senior Staff Attorney, Voting Rights Project

Min 3 yrs required

Full-time

No

The ACLU offers a generous and comprehensive compensation and benefits package, which includes a salary, generous paid vacation and holiday leave, and excellent health, life, disability, and long-term care insurance; flexible spending accounts; a 403(b) retirement plan; and much more.

# Staff Attorney or Senior Staff Attorney, Voting Rights Project
## About the Job
The ACLU seeks a full-time position of Staff Attorney or Senior Staff Attorney in the Voting Rights Project ?of the ACLU’s National office in New York, NY or Washington, .

Established in 1965, VRP has worked to protect the gains in political participation won by voters of color since passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA). Since its inception, the Voting Rights Project has litigated hundreds of voting rights cases, and has aggressively and successfully challenged efforts to suppress voting or to dilute minority voting strength.

The ACLU Voting Rights Project is currently litigating voter suppression and minority vote dilution cases in over a dozen states, from coast to coast, in every region of the country.

## Responsibilities
- Participate in litigation of constitutional and statutory cases on a wide range of voting rights issues including researching and drafting pleadings, briefs and legal memoranda, engaging in discovery and motion practice, and conducting evidentiary hearings and oral arguments in the trial and appellate courts
- Participate in analyzing legislation for potential litigation
- Develop new cases, non-litigation advocacy projects and identify and work with potential plaintiffs and witnesses
- Work with and advise ACLU state affiliates
- Provide technical assistance and expert legal advice to cooperating attorneys, and others who seek assistance on voting rights litigation, legislation, and advocacy
- Serve as a resource for ACLU legislative, policy and campaign work and advancing ACLU policy goals through public education, organizing and participating in coalitions
- Engage in public speaking and articulating ACLU views to a variety of audiences
- Collaborate with staff across the Organization, including in other projects within the ACLU’s Legal Department, Communications Department, Affiliate and Nationwide Support Initiative, National Political Advocacy Department, Strategy Office, and state affiliates to advance voting rights
- Travel as required for litigation, conferences, and client development
- Engage in special projects and other duties as assigned
- Center principles of equity, inclusion, and belonging in all work, embedding the values in program development, policy application, and organizational practices and processes
- Commitment to the mission of the ACLU
- Demonstrate a commitment to diversity within the office using a personal approach that values all individuals and respects differences in regards to race, ethnicity, age, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, religion, disability and socio-economic circumstance
- Commitment to work collaboratively and respectfully toward resolving obstacles and/or conflicts

## Experience & Qualifications
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- A minimum of three years of litigation experience, including clerkships, is preferred
- Appropriate bar membership permitting practice in New York or District of Columbia
- Familiarity with voting rights, racial justice, and other civil liberties and civil rights issues is preferred; commitment to those issues is essential
- Analytic skills and legal research and writing skills are required
- Demonstrated ability to write and to speak clearly and persuasively are essential
- A demonstrated ability to work independently as well as within a team
- Ability to foster and contribute to a collaborative team environment is essential
- Self-motivated, diligent, and able to meet strict deadlines while under pressure
- Ability to work with a wide range of people and foster a team environment

## Compensation
The ACLU has a litigator scale that determines pay for attorneys in our Legal Department. The range of salaries are the following, based on year of law school graduation (please consult the hiring manager for specific salary details, based on individual circumstances):

- 0-2 years since law school graduation: $85,000-$106,182
- 3-5 years since law school graduation: $118,927-$140,309
- 6-10 years since law school graduation: $146,732- $165,531
- 11-15 years since law school graduation: $168,627-$178,198
- 16-20 years since law school graduation: $179,880-$184,512
- 21-25 years since law school graduation: $185,447-$189,246
- 26-30+ years since law school graduation: $190,158- $193,860

These salaries are reflective of positions based in New York, NY. The salary will be subject to a locality adjustment (according to a specific city and state), if an authorization is granted to work outside of the location listed in this posting. Note that most of the salaries listed on our job postings reflect New York, NY salaries, where our National offices are headquartered.

The ACLU offers a generous and comprehensive compensation and benefits package, which includes a salary, generous paid vacation and holiday leave, and excellent health, life, disability, and long-term care insurance; flexible spending accounts; a 403(b) retirement plan; and much more.

Not Specified

Medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance; flexible spending accounts; a 403(b) retirement plan; generous vacation, sick leave, parental leave, and holidays; and an employee assistance program

Not Specified

Litigation, Legal Research, Legal Writing, Public Speaking

J.D. degree

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Qualification and Experience J.D. degree

Legal