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: Legal Secretary Job Responsibilities: - Draft a variety of legal correspondence, forms, petitions, pleadings, motions, discovery, and informational material. - Type, review, and independently compose outgoing correspondence to ensure all legal documents/enclosures are in proper processing order and grammatically correct. - File documents with the court and stay updated with changes in local court rules and procedural requirements for litigation. - Maintain records
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
Legal Secretary Job Title: Legal Secretary Job Responsibilities: - Draft a variety of legal correspondence, forms, petitions, pleadings, motions, and discovery and informational material. - Type, review, and independently compose outgoing correspondence to ensure all legal documents/enclosures are in proper processing order and that correspondence is grammatically correct. - File documents with the court and stay updated with changes in local court rules and procedural requ
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...