Job Title: Staff Attorney Job Responsibilities: - Provide comprehensive legal services including advice, negotiation, litigation, and administrative advocacy to low-income client communities, focusing on LGBTQ+ communities in alignment with program priorities and case handling policies. - Supervise the work product of LGBTQ+ Justice Program Community Workers and Clerical support staff. - Engage in significant statewide impact activities, including institutional and group lit
Job Title: Staff Attorney Job Responsibilities: - Provide comprehensive legal services to eligible clients in priority areas as per program guidelines, ABA Standards for Providers of Civil Legal Services, and the Code of Professional Responsibility. - Deliver legal services to low-income clients and client groups, including advice, negotiation, litigation, and administrative advocacy, following program priorities and case-handling policies. - Review and supervise the work pr
Directing Attorney Job Responsibilities The Directing Attorney at the organization is tasked with leading a team of staff attorneys and community workers to develop and implement advocacy strategies that address community-identified issues affecting agricultural workers in the Central Valley. The role involves ensuring the delivery of high-quality legal services that align with the organization's advocacy vision. Key responsibilities include: - Supervision of Office Staff
Directing Attorney Job Title Directing Attorney Job Responsibilities Supervision of Office Staff and Advocacy - Help develop the Agricultural Worker Justice Program’s advocacy vision and guide and supervise staff’s advocacy work, assessing the community’s legal needs to fulfill that vision. - Ensure that case handling complies with organization policies, Legal Services Corporation regulations, the ABA Standards for the Provision of Civil Legal Services, and ethical...
Job Title: Law Fellow Job Responsibilities: - Develop legal expertise in areas such as housing, labor and employment, environmental justice, education, and health. - Provide quality direct legal assistance to LGBTQ+ individuals in legal areas including name and gender marker corrections, education and student rights, immigration, employment, housing, public benefits, and healthcare access. - Engage in community education to increase cultural competencies and substantive lega
Job Title: Law Fellow Job Responsibilities: - Develop legal expertise in areas such as housing, labor and employment, environmental justice, education, and health. - Provide legal advocacy and educational outreach. - Support leadership development in rural Indigenous Mexican and Central American communities. - Partner with Indigenous clients, communities, and organizations to develop sustainable solutions to challenges faced by these communities. - Work closely with the orga
Job Title: Law Fellowships Job Responsibilities: The Law Fellowships with the organization offer rising or current third-year law students and recent law graduates the opportunity to develop legal expertise in key areas such as housing, labor and employment, environmental justice, education, and health. The fellowships are designed to provide comprehensive training and mentoring to new attorneys, helping them build a strong foundation in legal practice. Fellows will be invo
Job Title: Law Fellowships Job Responsibilities: - Develop legal expertise in areas such as housing, labor and employment, environmental justice, education, and health. - Provide legal services in CRLA’s priority areas including Housing, Employment, Education, Rural Health, and Leadership Development. - Engage in both direct services and systemic advocacy to address core legal needs and eradicate poverty across rural California. - Work within a network of 13 field offices ...
Job Title: Law Fellow Job Responsibilities: - Develop legal expertise in areas such as housing, labor and employment, environmental justice, education, and health. - Engage in a targeted campaign of community legal education and direct representation for low-wage workers. - Build alliances with workers and community organizations to ensure compliance with labor law protections. - Address issues affecting rural Californians, particularly those working in low-wage jobs within
Job Title: Staff Attorney Job Responsibilities: The Staff Attorney at the organization will engage in a variety of responsibilities aimed at addressing environmental justice issues within rural communities, particularly in the Central Valley. The role involves utilizing a community lawyering model that emphasizes creative and innovative advocacy to tackle systemic issues. The attorney will work closely with the Managing Attorney and other staff to develop and implement advoc
Job Title: Staff Attorney Job Responsibilities: The Staff Attorney position is within the LGBTQ+ Justice Program and requires providing comprehensive legal services to eligible clients in the organization’s priority areas, which include employment, public benefits, education, and leadership development. The primary focus is on serving LGBTQ+ communities in alignment with the organization’s program guidelines, ABA Standards for Providers of Civil Legal Services, and the C...
Job Title: Staff Attorney Job Responsibilities: - Provide post-conviction legal services to low-income individuals in the San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, and Ventura counties, focusing on issues such as eviction, housing insecurity, and substandard housing conditions. - Offer comprehensive representation to individuals seeking to clear their criminal records in the specified service areas. - Conduct community outreach and educational campaigns on record clearing options avai
Job Title: Law Fellow Job Responsibilities: - Develop legal expertise in areas including housing, labor and employment, environmental justice, education, and health. - Aid and represent rural immigrants, particularly victims of trafficking and workplace-related crimes, through the Immigration Project. - Prioritize representation for immigrants who qualify for U visas, T visas, and Naturalization. - Provide immigration services to Afghan parolees. - Create community resources
Job Title: Law Fellow Job Responsibilities: - Develop legal expertise in housing, labor and employment, environmental justice, education, and health. - Implement CRLA’s statewide approach to ensuring local districts meet obligations for equal access to low-income, English Learner, and foster students. - Engage in community education and outreach strategies. - Develop local leadership. - Monitor school districts and county offices of education. - File administrative complai...
Job Title: Law Fellow Job Responsibilities: - Develop legal expertise in areas such as housing, labor and employment, environmental justice, education, and health. - Engage in legal and community-based strategies to address the lack of basic infrastructure, including access to clean water for migrant farmworkers and low-income, rural communities. - Work closely with rural Californians to address primary issues affecting their lives. - Collaborate with the organization to sec
Job Title: Law Fellow Job Responsibilities: - Develop legal expertise in areas such as housing, labor and employment, environmental justice, education, and health. - Engage in projects aimed at deepening and expanding legal services for rural LGBTQ+ communities. - Focus on one or more of the following areas: - Statewide practice area: name and gender marker corrections, education, employment, housing, immigration, or healthcare. - Geographic area: expanding the full range
Job Title: Law Fellow Job Responsibilities: - Develop legal expertise in areas such as housing, labor and employment, environmental justice, education, and health. - Engage in the Access to Courts for Rural Tenants Tenant Justice Project, which aims to prevent unjust evictions and homelessness by improving access to court records and procedures for rural tenants. - Collaborate with courts to change problematic policies related to tenant access to justice, including addressin
Job Title: Law Fellow Job Responsibilities: - Develop legal expertise in areas such as housing, labor and employment, environmental justice, education, and health. - Enforce Indigenous community members' rights to language access in healthcare, schools, and public agencies, including courts, police departments, and local/county/state government. - Engage in strategic advocacy, litigation, and community outreach to support Indigenous Mexican immigrants living and working in C