Job Title: Gwinnett Staff Attorney Job Responsibilities: The Gwinnett Staff Attorney position involves providing legal assistance and representation to low-income individuals in various civil legal matters, including family, housing, consumer, public benefits, education, and health law. The attorney is responsible for dedicating two days per week to offer high-volume advice and brief services at the Gwinnett County Courthouse Law Library. This includes conducting client cons
**Job Title: Senior Counsel** **Job Responsibilities:** Senior Counsel at the organization is tasked with leading and engaging in cutting-edge impact litigation, public policy advocacy, and educational initiatives to further the mission of the organization. The role involves working both independently and collaboratively to serve the Regional Office and support the organization's nationwide goals. Key responsibilities include: - Engaging in education, engagement, and outrea
Job Title: Senior Counsel Job Responsibilities: Senior Counsels at the organization are responsible for leading and engaging in advanced impact litigation, public policy advocacy, and educational initiatives that further the organization's mission. They work both independently and collaboratively to support the organization's regional offices and advance its national mission. Key responsibilities include: - Public Policy: Conceptualizing and drafting legislative and adminis
Job Title: Senior Counsel Job Responsibilities: Senior Counsels at the organization play a crucial role in leading and engaging in innovative impact litigation, public policy advocacy, and educational initiatives that further the organization's mission. The Senior Counsel will operate independently and collaboratively to assist the organization's Regional Office and to advance the mission of the organization on a national scale. Key responsibilities include: - Devise legal
Job Title: Staff Attorney, Children's Legal Services Job Responsibilities: - Conduct intakes with child clients, identify relief, and provide direct representation for unaccompanied children released to sponsors in the designated area. - Handle a moderate to heavy caseload of children’s cases before the immigration court and USCIS. - Initiate state court proceedings for children eligible for special immigrant juvenile status. - Coordinate closely within the organization’...
Job Title: Managing Attorney, Atlanta Job Responsibilities: - Supervise and lead program staff in consultation with the Managing Director, which includes program oversight, direct representation, pro bono placements, supervising casework, managing caseloads and other assignments. - Promote and advise supervisees on professional growth, conduct employee performance evaluations, meet regularly with supervisees, and provide consistent and effective supervision to ensure high-qu
Job Title: Chief Legal Advocacy Officer Job Responsibilities: The Chief Legal Advocacy Officer (CLAO) at the organization is a pivotal executive leadership role responsible for shaping and advancing the organization's litigation, policy, and public education strategies. This role serves the LGBTQ+ communities and everyone living with HIV, while also focusing on strengthening organizational systems, infrastructure, and alignment with broader movement goals. The CLAO is tasked
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...
Job Title: Clayton County Managing Attorney Job Responsibilities: - The managing attorney will oversee the overall management, quality, and efficacy of the office. - Direct supervision of staff, including conducting staff meetings, administering performance reviews, and fostering an environment conducive to professional development and growth, is required. - Regular one-on-one meetings with staff members to provide constructive feedback and mentorship to junior staff are ex
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