Job Title: Staff Attorney, Health (Patients' Rights) Job Responsibilities: - Provide legal advocacy and representation to individuals living with mental health and other chronic health issues associated with poverty. - Represent clients in locked psychiatric facilities in civil commitment and forced medication hearings. - Ensure compliance with patients’ rights laws among mental health facilities through facility meetings, trainings, community education, grievance procedur...
Job Title: Legal Director Organization Description: The **Members Only** is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that provides interdisciplinary family defense legal services to indigent parents and children involved in Santa Clara County’s juvenile dependency system. The organization addresses issues such as substance use disorder, intimate partner violence, and mental health concerns, which often stem from poverty, marginalization, and intergenerational trauma. DAC believes that trad...
Job Title: Senior Staff Attorney Job Responsibilities: The Senior Staff Attorney is tasked with providing legal services and advocacy in alignment with the mission of the organization, which focuses on social justice and supporting immigrant and refugee families. The role requires a strong commitment to these values and involves organizing and managing casework effectively. Key responsibilities include: - Providing legal representation and advocacy, particularly in immigrat
Job Title: Staff Attorney Job Responsibilities: - Provide client consultations - Represent clients - Conduct research and analysis - Support administrative and coordination functions Education and Experience Information: - . law degree (.) - Active bar membership - No disciplinary actions recorded on license - Experience in immigration law, specifically in removal defense, is a strong positive - General grant knowledge is advantageous Salary Information:
Job Title: Staff Attorney, Housing Job Responsibilities: The Staff Attorney in the Housing Program at the organization is tasked with preventing the displacement of low-income individuals and communities of color. This is achieved through direct legal services, including unlawful detainer defense, and system change initiatives such as impact litigation and policy advocacy. The attorney is expected to manage a high-volume caseload, specifically representing tenants in unlawfu
POSITION: Immigration Staff Attorney (hybrid) Job Title: Immigration Staff Attorney Job Responsibilities: - Client Counseling and Representation: The Staff Attorney is responsible for conducting intake and evaluating cases for placement within the organization or referral to other providers. They provide representation in both affirmative and defensive immigration cases before USCIS, EOIR, and the BIA. The attorney will maintain a reasonable caseload, which includes screeni
Job Title: Staff Attorney Job Responsibilities: - Advise, counsel, and represent immigrant survivors of gender-based violence in legal matters before the Department of Homeland Security, Department of State, and Department of Justice, including immigration courts and the Board of Immigration Appeals. - Provide brief advice, counsel, and referrals to immigrant survivors of gender-based violence in legal matters related to immigration law. - Conduct intakes and maintain a case
Job Title: Law Fellow 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 a combination of direct services and systemic advocacy to address legal needs. - Work within a network of 13 field offices located throughout rural California. - Partici
Job Title: Law Fellow Job Responsibilities: - Fellows will develop legal expertise in areas such as housing, labor and employment, environmental justice, education, and health. - Engage in community education and provide quality direct legal assistance to LGBTQ+ individuals across various legal areas, including name and gender marker corrections, education and student rights, immigration, employment, housing, public benefits, and access to healthcare. - Participate in traini
Job Title: Law Fellow Job Responsibilities: - Develop legal expertise in areas such as housing, labor and employment, environmental justice, education, and health. - Work under the Fair Housing and Foreclosure Prevention Program, assisting victims of housing discrimination. - Ensure communities affirmatively further fair housing in compliance with the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) guidelines. - Provide education to first-time homebuyers and existing homeo
Job Title: Law Fellowships Job Responsibilities: The Law Fellowships at the organization provide an opportunity for rising or current third-year law students and recent law graduates to develop legal expertise in several key areas including housing, labor and employment, environmental justice, education, and health. The fellows will be involved in a targeted campaign of community legal education and direct representation, focusing on low-wage workers in coastal California. T
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 advocacy and educational outreach within Indigenous Mexican and Central American communities in rural California. - Support leadership development among Indigenous farmworker communities. - Partner with Indigenous clients, communities, and organizations to create sustainable solutions to their ch
Job Title: Staff Attorney, Litigation Team Job Responsibilities: The Staff Attorney position is part of the Litigation Team within the organization and focuses on various legal tasks aimed at advocating for transgender and gender nonconforming individuals. The key responsibilities include: - Investigating and developing potential new cases. This involves corresponding with potential clients, conducting research, reviewing records, and drafting demand letters. - Developing l
Job Title: Staff Attorney, Litigation Team Job Responsibilities: The Staff Attorney on the Litigation Team at the organization is responsible for a range of duties aimed at supporting transgender and gender-nonconforming individuals through legal advocacy and litigation. Key responsibilities include: - Investigating and developing potential new cases by corresponding with potential clients, conducting research, reviewing records, and drafting demand letters. - Developing li
Job Title: Counsel II, Litigation Job Responsibilities: - Develop relationships with outside counsel and a team of litigators to formulate overall litigation strategy aimed at implementing or facilitating organization-wide business objectives. - Implement strategies for cost control and mitigation for litigation portfolios of high reputational and economic significance. - Collaborate with various business, government, clinical, and other groups within the organization to ens
Job Title: Managing Attorney Job Responsibilities: - Oversee immigration legal services provided by attorneys and Department of Justice (DOJ) accredited representatives in Northern California, including locations such as Sacramento, Oakland, and Turlock. - Provide legal services encompassing asylum, removal defense, and low-cost services for refugees, immigrants, and other community members seeking adjustment of status, family reunification, naturalization, and other immigra
Job Title: Senior Program Manager (Legal) Job Responsibilities: - Build and implement the organization's Civil Rights Hub strategy to engage and support local elected and appointed officials across California. - Work closely with the Civil Rights Hub Director to aid in strategy, research, analysis, and outreach, serving as a statewide legal resource provider and capacity hub. - Grow the organization's network of engaged government partners across the state. - Identify and bu
Job Title: Senior Counsel, Corporate Transactions Job Responsibilities: - Provide legal counsel and support to the organization's business entities concerning strategic and complex corporate transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, and affiliations. - Negotiate and review highly complex and technical legal agreements and documents, identifying issues and developing solutions as needed. - Validate highly complex requests, recommend revisions, create temp
Job Title: Staff Attorney Job Responsibilities: The Staff Attorney will be a part of the litigation team within the department, primarily focusing on the Border Butterflies Project. This project supports LGBTQ asylum seekers at the US-Mexico border through legal, humanitarian, post-detention, and organizing support. The Staff Attorney will provide direct immigration services to LGBTQ asylum seekers in both Tijuana and the United States. Responsibilities include: - Conductin
Job Title: **Members Only** (Elections) Staff Attorney Job Responsibilities: - Advise, counsel, and represent government clients on specific election-related matters. - Conduct legal research and provide analysis of election laws, voting rights, and state constitutions across various jurisdictions. - Conduct outreach to recruit local government officials as partners in the Election Protection Hub (EPH). - Draft, review, edit, and provide feedback on legal documents and technical assist
Job Title: **Members Only** (Litigation) Staff Attorney Job Responsibilities: The **Members Only** (PRP) is seeking to hire one or more Staff Attorneys to join its Litigation Team. The primary responsibilities of the Staff Attorney include: - Identifying opportunities for advocacy and strategizing pathways to action both independently and as part of a team. - Representing PRP’s partners in litigation from the initial idea generation through to the conclusion, which includes legal and factual d...
Job Title: Counsel II, Litigation Job Responsibilities: The Counsel II, Litigation at the organization is responsible for a wide range of legal duties that are crucial for supporting the organization's litigation strategies and overall business objectives. Key responsibilities include: - Developing relationships with outside counsel and a team of litigators to craft litigation strategies that align with the organization's business goals. - Implementing strategies for cost c
Job Title: Senior Attorney, Right to Zero Hub Job Responsibilities: - Draft model legislation and policies to advance equitable zero-emission solutions. - Identify options to support the shift to zero-emissions across the industry, buildings, and transportation sectors. - Conduct and supervise advocacy before agencies, state and local governments as warranted. - Coordinate the development and execution of advocacy strategies related to efforts to electrify transportation cor
Job Title: Staff Attorney Job Responsibilities: The Staff Attorney at the organization is responsible for providing court-appointed legal representation to children and youth who are parties in juvenile dependency court proceedings and guardianship cases. The primary duties include: - Representing a full caseload of children and youth in all stages of juvenile dependency court proceedings. - Interviewing clients in their homes or community settings, advising them on legal ri
Job Title: Supervising Clients' Right Advocate Job Responsibilities: The Supervising Clients' Rights Advocate position is equivalent to an Associate Managing Attorney and involves a variety of responsibilities aimed at supporting and advocating for people with developmental disabilities. Key responsibilities include: - Supervision (70%): - Supervise attorneys and advocates, overseeing workload management, training, mentoring, and monitoring staff. - Lead a work team, foc
Supervising Attorney Job Title: Supervising Attorney Job Responsibilities: As a Supervising Attorney at the organization, you will be responsible for providing vision, leadership, and oversight for the legal support center functions in service of formerly incarcerated, incarcerated, and convicted people and their families. Reporting to the Advocacy Director, your key responsibilities will include: - Supervision, Leadership, and Professional Development: Supervise, mentor,
Job Title: Assistant General Counsel Job Responsibilities: The Assistant General Counsel (AGC) will be a vital contributor to a small in-house legal team, dealing with a complex array of commercial matters and government contracting regulations. The AGC will tackle both large and small matters that demand impeccable judgment, intellectual curiosity, a proactive approach, and the capacity to collaborate across functions. The AGC will provide legal support to internal stakehol
Job Title Assistant General Counsel Job Responsibilities The Assistant General Counsel (AGC) at a reputed firm will play a critical role as part of a small in-house legal team, dealing with a myriad of commercial matters and government contracting regulations. The AGC will handle both large and small legal matters that require impeccable judgment, intellectual curiosity, a proactive mindset, and the ability to collaborate across different functions within the organization.