Job Title: Policy Advocacy Manager Job Responsibilities: The Policy Advocacy Manager is responsible for advancing the mission of the organization through policy research, analysis, and education across California. Key responsibilities include: - Developing evidence-based policy recommendations and creating educational materials. - Leading the development and implementation of policy and advocacy strategies. - Conducting thorough research on policy issues, legislation, and r
Job Title: Legal Secretary Job Responsibilities: - Drafts a variety of legal correspondence, forms, petitions, pleadings, motions, and discovery and informational material. - Types, reviews, and independently composes outgoing correspondence to ensure all legal documents/enclosures are in proper processing order and that correspondence is grammatically correct. - Files documents with the court and stays updated with changes in local court rules and procedural requirements fo
Job Title: Staff Attorney Job Responsibilities: - Provide affirmative immigration relief services. - Represent clients in deportation proceedings. - Conduct outreach at assigned community college campuses. - Collaborate with other programs within the organization to promote systemic change. - Assess immigration relief needs of clients including community members, children, and community college students, and determine eligibility for benefits such as Naturalization, D
Job Title: Law Fellow Job Responsibilities: - Work on education, outreach, and legal advocacy for farmworkers fighting against sexual harassment in the workplace. - Develop legal expertise in areas such as housing, labor and employment, environmental justice, education, and health. - Engage with rural communities and address the primary issues affecting their lives. - Participate in CRLA's efforts to combat sexual harassment and violence in the agricultural industry. - Colla
Job Title: Law Fellowship Job Responsibilities: - Develop legal expertise in areas including housing, labor and employment, environmental justice, education, and health. - Address issues of pregnancy and disability discrimination within the agricultural sector. - Engage in community outreach, education, and legal advocacy to help workers access their rights. - Assist agricultural workers in obtaining reasonable accommodations and job-protected leave. - Work to ensure that di
Job Title: Law Fellow Job Responsibilities: - Develop legal expertise in areas such as housing, labor and employment, environmental justice, education, and health. - Engage in community education and outreach strategies to promote equitable school funding and ensure equal access for low-income, English Learner, and foster students. - Develop local leadership and monitor school districts and county offices of education to ensure compliance with statutory and state constitutio
Job Title: Law Fellow Job Responsibilities: - Develop legal expertise in the areas of housing, labor and employment, environmental justice, education, and health. - Engage in re-entry work to remove barriers to employment and housing for formerly incarcerated community members. - Assist in increasing the ability of formerly incarcerated individuals to reenter their rural communities and reunite with their families. - Participate in CRLA's emerging re-entry practice, which in
Job Title: Law Fellow Job Responsibilities: - Develop legal expertise in areas such as housing, labor and employment, environmental justice, education, and health. - Educate farmworkers about their rights to minimum wage and develop strategies to address wage issues on a workforce and industry-wide basis. - Work within the Enforcing Minimum Wage Standards for Agricultural Workers division to address the issue of farmworkers being paid below state or federal minimum wage. - C
Job Title: Law Fellow Job Responsibilities: - Develop legal expertise in areas such as housing, labor and employment, environmental justice, education, and health. - Engage in outreach, advocacy, and litigation strategies to combat age discrimination against farmworkers. - Inform aging farmworker populations of their rights and represent them in administrative or court settings. - Collaborate with the organization to develop and implement strategies addressing primary issues
Job Title: Law Fellow Job Responsibilities: - Develop legal expertise in areas such as housing, labor and employment, environmental justice, education, and health. - Engage in direct legal services, represent workers in administrative hearings, and file litigation on behalf of low-wage agricultural workers, including farmworkers and dairy workers. - Conduct significant education and outreach regarding employment rights, including health and safety, sexual harassment, and wag
Job Title Senior Attorney Job Responsibilities The Senior Attorney will be a crucial component of the organization's Oceans Division, engaging primarily in oceans-related federal litigation and regulatory advocacy. The attorney will represent the organization in litigation processes, which include legal research, analysis, briefing, and oral arguments. They will collaborate with the Litigation Program attorneys and other Oceans attorneys and staff on various litigation ma
Job Title: Attorney – Self Help Center Workgroup Job Responsibilities: The Attorney for the Self Help Center Workgroup is responsible for ensuring meaningful access to the civil justice system for self-represented litigants at the Santa Monica Courthouse Self-Help Legal Access Center. Key duties include: - Meeting with self-represented litigants onsite to provide direct assistance, which involves educating them on court rules and procedures and reviewing and preparing cou...
Job Title: Attorney – Santa Monica Right to Counsel (Stay Housed LA) Job Responsibilities: - Litigate eviction cases on behalf of Santa Monica tenants in the Santa Monica courthouse. - Interview and counsel clients affected by housing issues in Santa Monica. - Participate in recurring clinics and community outreach projects for both Santa Monica residents and Stay Housed LA. - Work on policy issues related to eviction and housing. - Represent subsidized housing clients at ...
Job Title: NRDC - Yale Environmental Justice Law Fellow Job Responsibilities: - In the first year, the Fellow will work within NRDC’s Environment, Equity & Justice Center (EEJC) to provide legal support for environmental justice communities across the United States. This includes scoping, shaping, and advancing litigation, as well as developing legal, policy, and coalition-building strategies to address environmental harms and secure benefits for environmental justice comm...
Job Title: Associate General Counsel Job Responsibilities: - Provide in-house legal support on tax exemption issues for both the organization and its Action Fund, as well as election law matters specifically for the Action Fund. - Conduct staff legal training on lobbying, gifts/ethics, tax exemption, and political law issues. - Offer ongoing legal support on a wide range of matters to the organization’s programs and departments, including substantive programmatic and commu...
Job Title: Litigation Paralegal Job Responsibilities: The Litigation Paralegal at the organization is tasked with providing comprehensive administrative and litigation support throughout all phases of the litigation process. Key responsibilities include: - Formatting, proofreading, and fact-checking legal documents to be filed in court, and generating tables of contents and authorities. - Assembling exhibits, appendices, and other materials for court filings. - Arranging se
Job Title: Policy Advocate Job Responsibilities: - Support state and federal policy advocacy to reduce health and environmental impacts of plastics and toxic chemicals. - Engage in advocacy against false solutions such as "chemical recycling" and work to reduce harmful chemical additives and plastic materials through legislation, administrative regulations, policies, litigation, or other advocacy avenues. - Review regulatory language, legislation, and scientific or technical
Job Title: Senior Associate General Counsel Job Responsibilities: The Senior Associate General Counsel at the organization is tasked with a range of responsibilities primarily centered around employment law and labor relations. The individual will oversee the vertical within the General Counsel team that deals with employment, labor, and benefits. Key responsibilities include: - Overseeing compliance matters related to employment, labor, and benefits. - Advising the organiz
Job Title: Howard-NRDC Environmental Justice Legal Fellow Job Responsibilities: The Environmental Justice Legal Fellow at the organization will collaborate with the Environment, Equity & Justice Center. This role involves using a variety of legal, policy advocacy, coalition-building, community outreach, and communications tools to support environmental justice communities across the United States. Key responsibilities include: - Developing relationships with communities to i
Job Title: General Counsel Job Responsibilities: The General Counsel acts as the chief legal advisor for the organization and the organization Action Fund, delivering strategic guidance, legal expertise, and risk management support to ensure compliance with relevant laws and regulations. This role aligns legal strategies with broader institutional goals and fosters effective governance, operational excellence, and ethical practices. The General Counsel manages the implementa
Job Title Summer 2026 Global Forest Policy Intern Job Responsibilities The Global Forest Policy Intern will be responsible for supporting the organization's efforts to enhance accountability for forest degradation within the framework of international forest governance. The intern will engage with multilateral agreements, international law, and marketplace regulations to facilitate the implementation of global commitments aimed at halting and reversing deforestation and f