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Public Interest
Attorney
Immigration
Min 10 yrs required
Senior Staff Attorney The candidate will be building the capacity of the firm's legal staff and program partners. Will be providing advice, consultation, coaching, and mentoring to attorneys in the organization. Serving as an authority who can provide input and help to resolve complex legal scenarios as raised by other attorneys. Assisting other attorneys in developing innovative and creative legal strategies. Reviewing and ensuring the quality of the legal resources developed by the firm. Leading a critical area or areas of organizational operations including: major programs, relationships with key donors and foundations, or important organizational initiatives. Responding to legal technical requests from public defenders, private practice attorneys, nonprofit agency staff, and pro bono attorneys who work with low-income immigrants on issues relating to family-based immigration, removal and deportation defense, VAWA, asylum, SIJS, naturalization and citizenship, and other immigration law issues. Writing manuals, practitioner advisories, and outreach and educational materials for attorneys, paralegals, community organizers, members of the immigrant community, and others. Preparing and leading webinars and in-person seminars on a variety of topics in immigration law. Working with networks of other immigrant rights organizations and/or organizing with and presenting to groups on immigration law, policy, and immigrant rights issues. Engaging in policy and advocacy work on immigration law issues. Writing grant proposals and reports to foundations and corporations, and representing the firm's in meetings with funders and supporters. Traveling for trainings, funder visits, and other events throughout the United States. Helping immigrants lead and participate in civic engagement projects.
Qualification and Experience
The candidate must have 10+ years of experience representing clients in the practice of general immigration law before the BIA and the EOIR, especially in regard to more complicated family-based and removal cases. Must have recognition as an expert-level authority with in-depth knowledge on one or more key areas of immigration law. Must have broad knowledge of family-based immigration law; deportation defense law, including the grounds of inadmissibility and deportability; the intersection of criminal and immigration law; and the rules governing BIA and judicial review. Must have excellent writing, editing, legal analysis, and oral presentation skills. Must have current Bar membership in good standing for any state in the United States or the District of Columbia. 15+ years of experience representing low-income clients in the practice of general immigration law, especially family-based and removal cases, including experience representing clients before the BIA and the EOIR is a plus. Second language proficiency - preferably Spanish, Mandarin, or Cantonese - within the range of conversational to fluency is a plus.
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