Title: Staff Attorney, Decarceration Project Job Responsibilities: 1. **Case Consulting & Strategic Litigation:** - Collaborate with trial attorneys, social workers, and paraprofessionals within the assigned borough to advocate for the release of clients detained pretrial in New York City jails. - Challenge...
legal tasks under the supervision of experienced attorneys. Responsibilities include: - Drafting motions and conducting legal research - Assisting with investigations and client interviews - Reviewing and organizing discovery - Observing appellate arguments and trial court... SORA hearings - Engaging in other duties as...
Title: Criminal Defense Practice Legal Intern – Spring 2026 Job Responsibilities: The Criminal Defense Practice Legal Intern will work under the guidance of supervising attorneys within the organization, which is the primary public defender in New York City. The intern will be...
Title: Staff Attorney, Strategic Litigation Job Responsibilities: The Staff Attorney in the Strategic Litigation Department is tasked with leading litigation efforts in forensic sciences. The role involves extensive collaboration with public defenders, defense counsel, and leading scientists to advance litigation goals. Key...
a dynamic and interdisciplinary legal team. This position involves advocacy and legal representation in housing matters, focusing on Bronx and Manhattan Housing Courts, administrative hearings, and supreme court and appellate practices. The primary responsibilities... include: - Providing legal representation and adv...
Hearings. - Handle related matters in other venues, including holdovers, nonpayments, or HP actions in Housing Court, and Article 78s in Supreme Court or the Appellate Division as necessary. - Staff... Right to Counsel intake appearances at the Office of Impartial Heari...
Title: Staff Attorney, Senior Staff Attorney, or Senior Counsel, Criminal Law Reform Project Job Responsibilities: - Lead and contribute to impact litigation in state and federal courts across the ., including investigating potential lawsuits, researching and drafting pleadings and briefs, engaging in...
constitutional and statutory cases on a wide range of voting rights issues, including researching and drafting pleadings, briefs, and legal memoranda, engaging in discovery and motion practice, and conducting evidentiary hearings and oral arguments in trial and appellate courts. - Ana...
Immigration Services (USCIS), the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR), and appellate courts. - Collaborate with volunteers,... interns, and pro bono attorneys; support training of junior staff members on all aspects of client contact, litigation support, case management, and/or project develop...
directly to the Deputy Attorney-in-Charge. The primary responsibilities include providing guidance in appellate representation and post-conviction relief... to staff attorneys. This is achieved by employing appropriate leadership models, such as the 'double-team' model, and overseeing cases from inception to completio...
Plea Project Senior Staff Attorney Job Responsibilities As a Plea Project Senior Staff Attorney at the organization, the primary responsibilities include managing a significant caseload of direct appeals from guilty plea convictions. This may also encompass post-conviction motions, hearings related...
Immigration Services (USCIS), the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR), and appellate courts. - Collaborate with volunteers,... interns, and pro bono attorneys; support training of junior staff members on all aspects of client contact, litigation support, case management, and/or project d...
Title: Staff Attorney, Immigration Job Responsibilities: - Represent survivors of gender-based violence and sex trafficking in immigration cases before . Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR), and appellate courts. - Conduct intake and... select asylum and related...
Title: Associate Director Job Responsibilities: The Associate Director will collaborate with the Director of the Domestic Violence Law Unit (DVLU) to oversee the unit's operations and ensure that the services provided are aligned with community needs. Key responsibilities include: - Developing and managing...
Title: Staff Attorney Job Responsibilities: The Staff Attorney in the Domestic Violence Law Unit is responsible for providing comprehensive legal services to survivors of intimate partner violence and sexual assault. This includes safety planning, representation, advice, and advocacy in various legal...
Title: Senior Counsel Job Responsibilities: Senior Counsels at the organization lead and engage in cutting-edge impact litigation, public policy advocacy, and education to further the organization's mission. The Senior Counsel will work independently and collaboratively to help serve the organization's Regional Office...
essential duties and responsibilities. These include: - Conducting legal research, analysis, and writing. - Participating in all stages of litigation in both trial and appellate courts. - Cite-checking and copy-editing... briefs, legal memos, and other legal documents. - Assisting with court filings and proceedi...
Title: Staff Attorney, Parole Revocation Defense Unit Job Responsibilities: The Staff Attorney in the Parole Revocation Defense Unit (PRDU) will be primarily responsible for representing clients accused of violating parole conditions at revocation and recognizance hearings. These hearings take place in various...
Title: Staff Attorney, Decarceration Project Job Responsibilities: 1. Case Consulting & Strategic Litigation: - Collaborate with trial attorneys, social workers, and paraprofessionals in the assigned borough to advocate for the release of clients detained pretrial in New York City jails. - Challenge...
Bureau Job Responsibilities: Supervision of Criminal Appellate Practice: - Review and revise... briefs prior to filing. - Screen cases for potential appeal issues or other post-conviction litigation. - Confer with staff attorneys to discuss legal and strategic choices for client representation on appeal. - Facilitate team...
Title: Staff Attorney Job Responsibilities: The Staff Attorney will be part of the Domestic Violence Law Unit, which serves survivors of intimate partner violence and sexual assault. The primary responsibilities include: - Providing comprehensive safety planning, representation, and consultation...
Title: Staff Attorney Job Responsibilities: The Staff Attorney in the Domestic Violence Law Unit is responsible for providing comprehensive safety planning, representation, advice, and advocacy services to survivors of intimate partner violence and sexual assault. The attorney will handle family and matrimonial...
with representing immigrants in appellate and federal court proceedings,... including habeas petitions, petitions for review, and Board of Immigration Appeals. The attorney will collaborate with internal and external partners on impact litigation and other advocacy efforts to address systemic problems...
Title: Associate/Senior Counsel for Voting Rights Job Responsibilities: The Associate/Senior Counsel for Voting Rights at the organization is responsible for advancing the voting rights litigation docket, particularly at a time when the community's right to vote is under significant threat. The primary...
Job Title: Appellate Criminal Defense – Summer... for 1Ls focused on appellate criminal defense. The internship... - Collaborating with experienced appellate attorneys on substantive writing... projects, including briefs and motions. - Preparing clients for parole appearances and submitting supporting materials...
Title: Criminal Defense Practice Legal Intern, 2L – Summer 2026 Job Responsibilities: The Criminal Defense Practice Legal Intern will work directly with supervising attorneys within the Criminal Defense Practice (CDP) of the organization. The primary responsibility of the CDP is to provide...
Title: Spring 2026 Democracy Legal Internship Job Responsibilities: The Spring 2026 Democracy Legal Internship offers law students the opportunity to engage in various activities that support the organization's mission to improve democracy and justice systems in the United States. Interns will work...
Title: Criminal Defense Practice Legal Intern – Spring 2026 Job Responsibilities: The Legal Intern for the Criminal Defense Practice at the organization will be involved in a variety of tasks aimed at providing holistic and client-centered representation to individuals facing misdemeanor, felony,...