Job Title: Cobb Staff Attorney Job Responsibilities: - The Cobb Staff Attorney will manage a mixed caseload utilizing various methods such as litigation, negotiation, mediation, brief service, transactional work, courthouse clinics, advice and referral, and community education. - The caseload will predominantly consist of housing and family law matters. - A significant portion of the role will involve in-court litigation. - The attorney will participate in task forces, commi
Job Title: Statewide Housing Advice Line Supervising Attorney Job Responsibilities: The Statewide Housing Advice Line Supervising Attorney is responsible for overseeing the legal operations of the Housing Advice Line, which serves low-income tenants and private landlords across Georgia. This role involves supervising both attorneys and paralegals, providing legal advice, and managing a caseload. Key responsibilities include: - Providing efficient legal advice, brief service
Job Title: Family Law Clinic Staff Attorney Job Responsibilities: - Advising and assisting unrepresented litigants with completing pro se forms, without providing legal representation. - Providing advice in areas including divorce, separate maintenance, legitimation, custody, visitation, child support, alimony, contempt, family violence protective orders, name change, birth certificate amendment, domestication, and temporary minor guardianship. Education and Experience
Job Title: Family Law Clinic Staff Attorney Job Responsibilities: - Provide family law consultations both in-office and onsite at the Justice Resource Center in the Fulton County Courthouse in downtown Atlanta, and at the DeKalb Family Law Information Center in Decatur, Georgia. - Advise and assist unrepresented litigants with completing pro se forms without providing legal representation. - Offer advice in areas such as divorce, separate maintenance, legitimation, custody,
Job Title: Veteran Law Project Staff Attorney Job Responsibilities: - Interview and counsel clients - Provide clients with referrals, advice, and brief service - Represent clients in various civil legal matters, including eviction defense, VA benefits, public benefits and health insurance, access to appropriate support services, disability rights, poor housing conditions, end-of-life planning, family law, and consumer law - Collaborate with pro bono volunteers in clini
Job Title: Staff Attorney Job Responsibilities: - Provide expert legal services to unaccompanied children needing legal representation through zealous direct representation as well as pro bono facilitation. - Mentor KIND pro bono attorneys and provide robust consultation and technical assistance to pro bono attorneys who have accepted KIND cases. - Perform ordinary functions of legal counsel, including legal research, formulating the legal strategy for cases, conducting clie
Job Title: Staff Attorney Job Responsibilities: - Provide expert legal services to unaccompanied children needing legal representation through zealous direct representation and pro bono facilitation. - Offer robust consultation, training, and technical assistance to pro bono attorneys who have accepted cases from the organization. - Perform legal research, formulate legal strategy, conduct client interviews, appear before immigration and/or state courts or agencies, and draf
Job Title: Temporary Senior Attorney Job Responsibilities: - Provide senior-level expertise in legal services for unaccompanied children facing removal proceedings. - Serve as an expert advisor on complex and novel legal issues for internal and external stakeholders. - Offer mentoring to pro bono attorneys and/or direct legal representation to clients. - Conduct robust consultation and technical assistance for pro bono attorneys handling KIND cases. - Perform ordinary legal
Job Title: Litigation & Employment Counsel Job Responsibilities: - Support litigation management under the supervision of Litigation Counsel and Assistant General Counsel by providing strategic assessment, managing discovery, drafting/editing pleadings and briefs, coordinating with internal teams, preparing witnesses for deposition and hearings, and reporting on status. - Organize and maintain an electronic database of discovery material. - Maintain a database of all materia
Associate General Counsel Job Title: Associate General Counsel Job Responsibilities: The Associate General Counsel at the organization is tasked with a wide range of responsibilities aimed at supporting the General Counsel or Deputy General Counsel. Key responsibilities include: - Negotiating, drafting, and reviewing general business, vendor, consultant, and real estate contracts and agreements. This involves substantial autonomy, particularly concerning contracts for the
Job Title: Policy Counsel Job Responsibilities: The Policy Counsel at the organization plays a crucial role in identifying, developing, and implementing legislative and other policy reform strategies at federal, state, and local levels. The primary focus is on ensuring that the nation’s criminal justice laws are administered fairly and without racial bias. Key responsibilities include: - Conducting policy and other forms of research. - Monitoring and responding to develop...
TITLE: Corporate Counsel JOB RESPONSIBILITIES: Contract Review & Commercial Support - Draft, review, negotiate, and manage a wide range of commercial contracts, including vendor, customer, service, confidentiality, and partnership agreements. - Identify legal, financial, and operational risks in contracts and propose practical mitigation strategies. - Develop and maintain standard contract templates and playbooks to support efficient contracting processes. - Advise internal