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
Job Title: Senior Paralegal and Legal Operations Manager Department: Office of General Counsel Job Responsibilities: This hybrid role at the organization encompasses responsibilities across Corporate Paralegal, Executive Support, and Legal Operations Manager functions, aimed at ensuring legal and operational excellence. The job activities include: Corporate Paralegal: - Drafting, reviewing, and managing legal documents, contracts, intellectual property registrations, and c
Job Title: Associate or Staff Attorney Department: Program/ELP Job Responsibilities: - Litigate key lawsuits for the organization, including dockets at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, under the guidance of managing and senior attorneys. This includes growing responsibilities in case development, legal research and writing, and oral advocacy. - Represent the organization in select regional transmission organization stakeholder processes through both written and or
Job Title: Associate or Staff Attorney Department: Program/ELP Job Responsibilities: The Associate or Staff Attorney will be part of the national legal team at the organization’s Environmental Law Program. The primary responsibilities involve litigating cases before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and federal courts, advocating in regional transmission organization stakeholder processes, and advising campaigns aimed at decarbonizing the electrical grid by replaci...
Senior Litigator Job Title: Senior Litigator Job Responsibilities: The Senior Litigator at the organization will report to the General Counsel and join a team of experienced litigators to support the organization's impact litigation and systemic advocacy. The role requires the use of various advocacy tools to address systemic issues, including litigation, policy advocacy, community education, media, and collaboration with other organizations. The Senior Litigator will demo
Job Title: Supervising Attorney Job Responsibilities: The Supervising Attorney at the organization is responsible for overseeing and managing intake, outreach, and limited short-term assistance to ensure the delivery of high-quality services that meet grant deliverables and requirements. This role involves a significant amount of supervision, support, and community-based advocacy work, detailed as follows: Supervision – 70% - Supervise attorneys and advocates, manage work...
Title: General Counsel Reports to: President FLSA Status: Exempt Salary Range: $134,970 - $155,631 Location: Remote Tentative Start Date: As soon as possible Position Summary The General Counsel is responsible for ensuring compliance with regulations, identifying and documenting regulatory risks, and assisting the organization in developing controls. This position involves planning, organizing, and executing day-to-day operational compliance activities. Job Responsibi
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: Policy Advocacy Manager Job Responsibilities: The Policy Advocacy Manager at the organization plays a pivotal role in advancing the mission through comprehensive policy research, analysis, and education across California. The primary responsibilities include developing evidence-based policy recommendations and creating educational materials to support advocacy efforts. The manager is instrumental in leading the development and implementation of policy and advocacy
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: Summer Law Clerk Job Responsibilities: The **Members Only** is seeking law clerks for its summer 2026 program. The clerks will work full-time for approximately 10 weeks, with the option to work remotely or from the San Francisco office on select days. The primary responsibilities include: - Engaging in legal research and writing to support NHLP’s mission of advancing housing justice. - Contributing to organization-wide projects under the supervision of 1 to 2 staff attorn...
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: Law Clerk (Spring Quarter/Semester) Job Responsibilities: The Law Clerk position offers first and second-year law students the opportunity to work closely with Attorneys and Legal Assistants who represent clients in parole hearings and engage in legal research and writing projects. Key responsibilities include: - Direct Attorney support: Drafting follow-up communications and/or consultations for clients, providing feedback on client writings, supporting Attorneys
Job Title: Spring Law Student Clerkships Job Responsibilities: Law clerks at **Members Only** will work within the Tenants’ Rights Program, which offers support to tenants in Oakland and Hayward. The specific responsibilities include: - Addressing habitability issues for tenants - Providing limited scope representation in eviction cases - Offering Pro Per assistance with eviction cases - Delivering limited and full scope representation in hearings before the Oakland Rent Adjustment ...
Job Title: Spring Law Student Clerkships Job Responsibilities: The Spring Law Student Clerkships at the organization involve working in one of the three practice areas, specifically within the Workers’ Rights Program. The primary responsibilities for law clerks in this program include: - Providing advice, counsel, and Pro Per assistance to low-wage and immigrant workers. - Offering legal representation to workers facing issues such as wage theft, workplace discrimination,...
Job Title: Fall Law Student Clerkships Job Responsibilities: - Assist tenants in addressing habitability issues. - Provide limited scope representation in eviction cases. - Offer Pro Per assistance with eviction cases. - Provide limited and full scope representation in hearings before the Oakland Rent Adjustment Program. - Work under the supervision of housing attorneys. - Work one-on-one with primarily monolingual Spanish-speaking tenants. - Prepare Pro Per answers to unlaw
Job Title: Spring Law Student Clerkships Job Responsibilities: Law clerks at **Members Only** will work under the supervision of an attorney and engage in various responsibilities related to immigration law. Their duties include: - Preparing and submitting applications, legal briefs, and supporting documentation for cases involving asylum, withholding of removal, relief under the Convention Against Torture, cancellation of removal, U visas, and other forms of immigration relief. - Ass
Job Title: Summer Law Student Clerkships Job Responsibilities: The Summer Law Student Clerkships at the organization involve engaging in various legal activities within the Workers’ Rights Program. Law clerks will closely collaborate with supervising attorneys to provide legal assistance to low-wage and immigrant workers who encounter issues such as wage theft, workplace discrimination, and retaliation. Key responsibilities include: - Conducting one-on-one consultations w...
Job Title: Summer Law Student Clerkships Job Responsibilities: 1. Immigration Program: Law clerks will work under the supervision of an attorney to assist in the representation of individuals in removal proceedings. Specific duties include: - Preparing and submitting applications, legal briefs, and supporting documentation for cases involving asylum, withholding of removal, relief under the Convention Against Torture, cancellation of removal, U visas, and other forms of imm
Job Title: Summer Law Student Clerkships Job Responsibilities: The Summer Law Student Clerkships involve working under the supervision of housing attorneys in the Tenants’ Rights Program at the organization. The primary responsibilities include: - Assisting tenants, primarily monolingual Spanish speakers, with habitability issues. - Providing limited scope representation in eviction cases. - Offering Pro Per assistance to tenants in eviction cases. - Preparing Pro Per ans...
Job Title: Fall Law Student Clerkships Job Responsibilities: Law clerks participating in the Fall Law Student Clerkships at the organization will engage in various responsibilities within the Workers’ Rights Program. These responsibilities include: - Conducting one-on-one consultations with low-income, primarily monolingual Spanish-speaking workers at legal clinics. - Assisting workers in preparing claims related to wage theft, workplace discrimination, and retaliation. - ...
Job Title: Fall Law Student Clerkships Job Responsibilities: **Members Only** provides law student clerkships and externships throughout the year, including summer positions, across its three primary practice areas. Within the Immigration Program, clerks are engaged in critical support roles to assist vulnerable members of the community, such as families living in poverty, women, children, and victims of violent crimes, including domestic violence. Under attorney supervision, law cler
Job Title: Legal Administrative Assistant/Paralegal Job Responsibilities: The Legal Administrative Assistant/Paralegal at the organization is responsible for providing essential administrative support to the litigation team and the Legal Services Project (LSP), including managing the prison mail program. Key responsibilities include: - Administering the prison mail response program by acquiring, sorting, scanning incoming mail, and printing and mailing outgoing letters. - C
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: Summer Internship Job Responsibilities: - Assist in all aspects of litigation on the organization's docket. - Conduct legal research and draft memos, briefs, discovery documents, and pleadings. - Attend hearings and settlement meetings to the extent feasible. - Work closely with a staff attorney who will supervise work and provide feedback. - Engage in strategy meetings and brief writing due to the small size and fast-paced environment of the organization. - Oppor