Title: Staff Attorney (Family Defense Unit) Job Responsibilities: The Staff Attorney in the Family Defense Unit (FDU) at the organization is responsible for representing parents accused of neglect and abuse in various legal settings, including investigations, administrative hearings, Article 10 proceedings, Permanency...
Title: Bilingual Immigration Paralegal Advocate Job Responsibilities: The Bilingual Immigration Paralegal Advocate plays a vital role in providing services to victims of domestic violence and human trafficking. Key responsibilities include: - Screening callers for eligibility and scheduling intakes with immigration attorneys. - Handling routine...
Title: Staff Attorney - Pro Bono Job Responsibilities: - Represent young individuals aged 12-24 in immigration cases, including Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS), asylum, U Visas, and T Visas, in both affirmative and removal defense situations. - Facilitate referrals to education, healthcare, and...
Title: Staff Attorney, Youth Defense Practice Job Responsibilities: - Represent clients charged with juvenile delinquency matters in Family Court. - Represent clients charged as adolescent and juvenile offenders (AO and JO) on cases in the Supreme Court Youth Parts, with potential removal to...
Title: Staff Attorney, Immigration Practice Job Responsibilities: The Staff Attorney in the Immigration Practice at the organization will work under the supervision of the Senior Immigration Attorney. The primary responsibilities include representing clients in removal proceedings in Immigration Court and other administrative...
parent advocates, to provide clients with high-quality legal defense. - Meet objectives such as keeping children out of the foster... system, shortening lengths of stay for children in the foster system,... promoting quality visiting arrangements, and ensuring that families receive s...
and parent advocates, to deliver high-quality legal defense. - Meet objectives such as keeping children out of the foster... system, shortening lengths of stay for children in the foster system,... promoting quality visiting arrangements, and ensuring families receive services tailored t...
parent advocates, to provide clients with high-quality legal defense. - Meet objectives such as keeping children out of the foster... system, shortening lengths of stay for children in the foster system,... promoting quality visiting arrangements, and ensuring that families receive s...
and parent advocates. - Provide high-quality legal defense to clients with objectives such as keeping children out of the foster... system, shortening the lengths of stay for children in foster care, promoting... quality visiting arrangements, and ensuring families receive services tai...
advocates, to provide high-quality legal defense for clients. - Achieve objectives such as keeping children out of the foster... system, shortening lengths of stay for children in the foster system,... promoting quality visiting arrangements, and ensuring families receive services tailored to...
and parent advocates, to provide clients with high-quality legal defense. - Meet objectives such as keeping children out of the foster... system, shortening lengths of stay for children in the foster system,... promoting quality visiting arrangements, and ensuring that families receive...
completing intakes for unaccompanied children (UCs) in Office of... Refugee Resettlement custody. Provide these orientations and intakes as needed. - Review intakes and make determinations regarding eligibility for immigration relief and conduct follow-up legal screenings as needed. - Appear as counsel...
Title: Juvenile Rights Practice Staff Attorney – Entry Level Fall 2026 Job Responsibilities: - Represent clients in Family Court litigation, including fact-finding, dispositional, and post-dispositional hearings. - Conduct direct client representation and manage institutional assignments, including intake and case coverage. - Engage in out-of-court...
Title: Staff Attorney, Decarceration Project Job Responsibilities: - Work closely 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 adverse pretrial detention decisions using writs...
in its trial offices and specialized units. Legal interns will work directly with JRP attorneys, who represent children aged 0 to 21... in New York City Family Courts on matters such as child welfare, Persons-in-Need-of-Supervision (PINS), juvenile delinquency, and te...
law. - Participate in observation of and involvement in court proceedings. - Conduct witness interviews, including children and parents. - Attend and... participate in conferences related to ongoing cases. - Digest and analyze case records such as school, medical, forensic reports, and transcripts. -...
Title: Juvenile Rights Practice Staff Attorney – Entry Level Fall 2026 Job Responsibilities: - Represent clients in Family Court litigation, including fact-finding, dispositional, and post-dispositional hearings. - Conduct direct client representation and handle institutional assignments such as intake and case coverage. - Prepare cases...
Title: Juvenile Rights Practice Legal Intern 2L - Summer 2026 Job Responsibilities: The Juvenile Rights Practice (JRP) of the organization is offering non-paid internship positions for the Summer 2026 term in various trial offices and specialized units. The legal interns will work...
Title: Temporary Family Law Attorney Job Responsibilities: - Provide holistic, client-centered legal advocacy for domestic violence survivors seeking court protection. - Staff one of two organization court offices located in either Bridgeport or Stamford Superior Court. - Assist victims and survivors of domestic violence,...
Title: Attorney, Integrated Domestic Violence Team Job Responsibilities: - Represent clients in the Integrated Domestic Violence (IDV) Part in both criminal and family court matters, focusing on custody, visitation, and family offense proceedings. - Prepare and litigate all hearings and trials in both...
Title: Law Student Internship, Trial (Summer 2026) Job Responsibilities: - Learn and engage in areas of law practiced by the organization, including custody, visitation, domestic violence, abuse, and neglect law. - Gain hands-on experience in legal advocacy for child clients. - Observe and participate...
hands-on experience and assist staff in advocating for child clients. - Paired with a mentor, interns will receive close supervision and training. - Participate in observation of and participation in court proceedings. - Conduct witness interviews with children, parents, and others involved... i...
Title: Juvenile Rights Practice Staff Attorney – Entry Level Fall 2026 Job Responsibilities: - Represent clients in Family Court litigation, including fact-finding, dispositional, and post-dispositional hearings. - Conduct direct client representation and institutional assignments, including intake and case coverage. - Engage in out-of-court case...
Title: Staff Attorney - Domestic Violence Law Project Job Responsibilities: - Independently litigate family and matrimonial cases throughout New York City from intake to trial. - Conduct in-depth interviews with domestic violence victims, compile history, and investigate to corroborate allegations. - Draft all legal...
Title: Staff Attorney, Decarceration Project Job Responsibilities: 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 adverse pretrial detention...
Title: Paralegal, Domestic Violence Program Job Responsibilities: The Paralegal in the Domestic Violence Program will work closely with staff attorneys to ensure the successful and smooth operation of legal and administrative functions. Responsibilities include: - Researching cases and legal issues under...
Title: Staff Attorney, Immigration Practice Job Responsibilities: The Immigration Staff Attorney at the organization has a primary responsibility to represent clients in removal proceedings in Immigration Court, and in other administrative and judicial bodies. The attorney will assist clients in applying for...
and parent advocates, to provide high-quality legal defense for clients. - Meet objectives such as keeping children out of the foster... system, shortening their lengths of stay, promoting quality visiting arrangements, and ensuring families receive services tailored to expedite safe...
Provide high-quality legal defense to clients with objectives such as: - Keeping children out of the foster... system. - Shortening lengths of stay for children in the foster system. ... - Promoting quality visiting arrangements. - Ensuring that families receive se...
parent advocates, to provide high-quality legal defense to clients. - Meet objectives such as keeping children out of the foster... system, shortening lengths of stay for children in the foster system,... promoting quality visiting arrangements, and ensuring that families receive ser...
parent advocates, to provide clients with high-quality legal defense. - Meet objectives such as keeping children out of the foster... system, shortening the length of stay for children in the foster system,... promoting quality visiting arrangements, and ensuring families receive s...
parent advocates) to provide clients with high-quality legal defense. - Meet objectives such as keeping children out of the foster... system, shortening lengths of stay for children in the foster system,... promoting quality visiting arrangements, and ensuring families receive s...
to provide high-quality legal defense for clients. - Meet objectives such as keeping children out of the foster... system, shortening lengths of stay for children in the foster system,... promoting quality visiting arrangements, and ensuring that families receive services that exped...
Title: Staff Attorney - Immigration Law Project Job Responsibilities: The Staff Attorney is tasked with providing direct legal services, which include consultations and representation before both the . Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and the Executive Office for Immigration Review. A significant...
committed to advocating for children's issues and juvenile justice.... Interns will work directly under the supervision of JRP attorneys and be part of an inter-disciplinary team including social workers, paralegals, and investigators. Essential duties and responsibilities include: - Conducting legal res...
Title: Law Student Internship, Appellate/Writing (Summer 2026) Job Responsibilities: - Work closely with attorneys who are members of the writing/appellate team. - Hone legal research and writing skills. - Learn about family law and the role of the attorney for the child. - Engage in...
Conduct witness interviews, including children and parents. - Engage in... case conferences. - Digest case records such as school, medical, forensic reports, and transcripts. - Conduct legal research and engage in legal writing. - Assist staff in advocating for child clients. - Work under the...
Title: Juvenile Rights Practice Staff Attorney – Entry Level Fall 2026 Job Responsibilities: - Represent clients in Family Court litigation, including fact-finding, dispositional, and post-dispositional hearings. - Conduct direct client representation and manage institutional assignments, including intake and case coverage. - Prepare cases out-of-court...
Title: Director of Innovative Housing Initiatives Job Responsibilities: 1. Program Management: - Coordinate intake and advice/brief representation provided to callers. - Monitor and maintain a high standard of client service. - Support the development, funding, implementation, and reporting of programs. - Oversee...
of JRP attorneys. These responsibilities include: - Conducting legal research and writing motions. - Participating in home and school visits. - Interviewing children and caretakers. - Engaging... in motion practice and trial preparation. - Performing other tasks as assigned. Inter...
Job Title: Children's Attorney Job Responsibilities: - Conduct intakes... direct representation for unaccompanied children released to sponsors in... Court and USCIS. - Initiate and represent children in state court proceedings... for those eligible for Special Immigrant Juvenile classification, including custody and guardianship matte...
Title: Staff Attorney (Matrimonial Project) Job Responsibilities: The Staff Attorney for the Matrimonial Project within the Domestic Violence Law Unit (DVLU) is responsible for providing comprehensive legal representation and support to survivors of domestic and intimate partner violence in various legal matters....
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...
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: 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: Juvenile Rights Practice Staff Attorney – Entry Level Fall 2026 Job Responsibilities: - Represent clients in Family Court litigation, including fact-finding, dispositional, and post-dispositional hearings. - Conduct direct client representation and institutional assignments, including intake and case coverage. - Engage in out-of-court case...