Job Title: Assistant Deputy Public Defender 3 Job Responsibilities: Under the general supervision of a Deputy Public Defender, the Assistant Deputy Public Defender 3 serves as a lead worker, providing guidance to Assistant Deputy Public Defenders of lower levels and taking the lead on work-related matters. The individual in this position acts in a professional capacity as a civil or criminal attorney for indigent persons who are formally charged with offenses of an indictabl
Job Title: Assistant Deputy Public Defender 1 Job Responsibilities: - Serve under the close supervision of a Deputy Public Defender. - Act as a civil or criminal attorney for indigent persons facing formal charges of an indictable nature, juvenile offenses, or other legal issues such as abuse/neglect of children, commitments to mental institutions, or intense supervision parole. - Handle cases involving individuals in need of guardianship, those alleged to have abused or neg
Assistant Deputy Public Defender II The candidate works under the limited supervision of a Deputy Public Defender. Serves in a professional capacity as the civil or criminal attorney for indigent persons who are formally charged with an offense of an indictable nature or juvenile offense, or children who are abused/neglected, or commitments to mental institutions, or resolves disputes, or persons on intense supervision parole, or in need of guardianship, or who are alleged t
Job Title: Assistant Deputy Public Advocate 3 Job Responsibilities: The Assistant Deputy Public Advocate 3 operates under the jurisdiction of a Division Director in the Department of the Public Advocate. The primary responsibilities include assisting in the performance of all professional duties necessary for the adequate representation and protection of the public interest in proceedings concerning the division. The role may involve related work as required to meet the obje
Job Title: Assistant Deputy Public Advocate 2 Job Responsibilities: The Assistant Deputy Public Advocate 2 operates under the jurisdiction of a Division Director in the Department of the Public Advocate. The primary responsibilities include performing all professional duties essential for the adequate representation and protection of the public interest in proceedings concerning the division. The role may involve related work as required to support the division's objectives.
Job Title: Assistant Deputy Public Advocate 1 Job Responsibilities: Under the direction of a Division Director or other supervisory officer in the department, the Assistant Deputy Public Advocate 1 assists in the performance of professional duties necessary for adequate representation and protection of the public interest in proceedings concerning the division. The position involves various related tasks as required to fulfill the responsibilities of the role effectively. E
H1: Assistant District Attorney - Job Opportunity in Bronx, NY H2: Deputy Bureau Chief in Crime Strategies Bureau Organization: **Members Only** Department: Crime Strategies Bureau Salary Range: $185,000-199,000 Career Opportunity Type: Legal Staff ID: 902-2024393 Job Summary: The **Members Only** is seeking an experienced attorney to serve as a Deputy Bureau Chief in the Crime Strategies Bureau. This position plays a crucial role in implementing the intelligence-driven prosecution model and c
The City also provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and applicable state and local law. Assistant District Attorney is a legal staff position within the Human Trafficking Unit of the **Members Only**. This position offers a salary range of $80,440 - $167,610 and requires a minimum of three years of relevant experience. The ideal candidate will have experience working with intimate partner v
ASSISTANT CORPORATION COUNSEL - FAMILY COURT DIVISION The New York City Law Department is seeking an experienced attorney to join our team as an Assistant Corporation Counsel (ACC) in the Family Court Division’s Advanced Litigation and Major Case Unit. In this role, you will receive extensive training and develop an expertise in the investigation and prosecution of firearms cases. You will primarily handle cases involving the possession and/or use of firearms, but may al...
Supervising Attorney for Homicide, Assigned Counsel Plan - NYC-ALL BOROS Organization: **Members Only** of New York City, First and Second Departments Salary: $66, – $172, Job Title: Supervising Attorney for Homicide Panel Attorneys Experience Level: Manager Department: ACP Staff Location: New York City-All Boroughs The **Members Only** of New York City, First and Second Departments is seeking an experienced attorney to serve as the Supervising Attorney for Homic...
Job Title: General Counsel Job Responsibilities: Under executive direction, the General Counsel serves as the agency’s chief legal advisor, administratively reporting to the First Deputy Commissioner and under a dual reporting structure with the City’s Law Department (Corporation Counsel). The primary responsibility is advising the Chief Medical Examiner, First Deputy Commissioner, and other executive staff on all matters concerning New York City laws, rules, and regulat...
Job Title: Supervising Attorney, First Department Department: **Members Only**, ACP Staff Job Responsibilities: The Supervising Attorney within the **Members Only**'s ACP Staff is tasked with providing critical oversight and support to attorneys representing indigent clients charged with various criminal offenses in New York City. The role involves ensuring high standards of legal representation and client services, identifying and addressing attorney needs, and fostering teamwork and communicat
Job Title: Supervising Attorney for Mental Health, Assigned Counsel Plan Job Responsibilities: - Provide legal assistance, case consultation, and expert referral guidance to panel attorneys handling cases involving mental health issues. - Work collaboratively with other ACP Supervising Attorneys to monitor case activity and ensure attorney adherence to best practices. - Maintain cooperative and supportive relationships with relevant personnel in state and city agencies, as w
Job Title: Investigating Attorney – Racial Profiling and Biased Policing Job Responsibilities: The Investigating Attorney will work within the Racial Profiling and Biased Policing (RPBP) Investigations Unit at the **Members Only**. The primary responsibilities include: - Receiving, investigating, and managing civilian complaints of police misconduct, specifically those alleging racial profiling and biased policing based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, dis...
Job Title: Investigating Attorney – Racial Profiling and Biased Policing Job Responsibilities: The Investigating Attorney within the **Members Only** is tasked with handling civilian complaints against New York City police officers that allege racial profiling and other forms of biased policing. The role involves a comprehensive range of responsibilities, including: - Receiving and managing complaints related to police misconduct. - Contacting and scheduling interviews with complain...
Job Title: Investigating Attorney – Racial Profiling and Biased Policing Department: Civilian Complaint Review Board Salary Range: $71, – $108, Job Responsibilities: The Investigating Attorney at the **Members Only** is tasked with handling civilian complaints related to racial profiling and biased policing by New York City police officers. The responsibilities include: - Receiving, investigating, and managing complaints alleging misconduct based on race, color, reli...
Job Title: Examining Attorney Job Responsibilities: The Examining Attorney will serve multiple key roles within the department, including Records Access Officer, Agency Privacy Officer, Records Retention Officer, and Open Data Liaison. The primary responsibilities include reviewing and analyzing closed NYPD Internal Affairs Bureau investigations and preparing written memoranda with recommendations for improved investigative procedures. The attorney will meet with department
Job Title: Supervising Attorney, First Department Job Responsibilities: The Supervising Attorney in the First Department operates under the **Members Only**, specifically within the Assigned Counsel Plan (ACP) Staff. The primary responsibility is to oversee ACP attorneys who represent indigent clients facing misdemeanor, felony, and homicide charges in the Criminal and Supreme Courts of New York City. The role includes: - Monitoring and maintaining high standards of representation and
Job Title Fall 2026 Law Graduates, Family Defense Job Responsibilities Law Graduates joining the organization will work as part of interdisciplinary legal teams, which include attorneys, social work staff, paralegals, and parent advocates. Their primary responsibilities include: - Providing high-quality legal defense to clients with the aim of preventing children from entering the foster system. - Shortening the duration of stay for children already in the foster system.
Job Title: Fall 2026 Law Graduates, Family Defense Job Responsibilities: - Collaborate as part of the organization's interdisciplinary legal teams, which include attorneys, social work staff, paralegals, and parent advocates, to deliver high-quality legal defense to clients. - Aim to achieve objectives such as keeping children out of the foster system, reducing the duration of foster care stays, promoting quality visitation arrangements, and ensuring families receive service
Job Title: Fall 2026 Law Graduates, Family Defense Job Responsibilities: - Work as part of the organization’s interdisciplinary legal teams, which include attorneys, social work staff, paralegals, 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...
Job Title: Spring 2026 Law Graduates, Family Defense Job Responsibilities: - Work as part of an interdisciplinary legal team at the organization, comprising attorneys, social work staff, paralegals, and parent advocates, to provide 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 services wel
Job Title: Spring 2026 Law Graduates 2026, Family Defense Job Responsibilities: - Work as part of the organization's interdisciplinary legal teams, which include attorneys, social work staff, paralegals, and parent advocates, to provide clients with high-quality legal defense. - Meet objectives aimed at keeping children out of the foster system, shortening the lengths of stay for children in the foster system, promoting quality visiting arrangements, and ensuring families re
Job Title: Spring 2026 Law Graduates, Family Defense Job Responsibilities: - Work as part of an interdisciplinary legal team consisting of attorneys, social work staff, paralegals, and parent advocates to provide high-quality legal defense for clients. - Aim to keep children out of the foster system, shorten lengths of stay for children in the foster system, promote quality visiting arrangements, and ensure that families receive services tailored to expedite safe and lasting
Job Title: Investigative Attorney Job Responsibilities: - Analyze complex documents, including financial records, welfare data, procurement files, and internal policies. - Work collaboratively with investigators, attorneys, policy analysts, and auditors to advance investigations through interviews, document analysis, and fieldwork. - Collaborate with officials from ACS/DSS, city/state/federal prosecutors, and law enforcement partners. - Produce clear legal memoranda, investi
Job Title: Fall 2026 Law Graduate (Criminal Defense Practice) Job Responsibilities: - Provide vigorous and enthusiastic representation to residents of Northern Manhattan in Manhattan’s criminal courts. - Engage in frequent court appearances and litigation activities, including arraignments, grand jury presentations, legal arguments, hearings, and trials. - Interview clients and their families in the Harlem office or local jails, conduct legal research, and write pre-pleadi...
Job Title: Temporary Staff Attorney (Free to Be Youth Project) Job Responsibilities: The Temporary Staff Attorney will represent the legal needs of homeless and street-involved lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, and questioning (LGBTQ+) young people, up to age 24, in New York City. The attorney will work collaboratively with the Project Director and other staff to ensure the provision of quality legal services. Key responsibilities include: - Providing legal representation and
Job Title: DV Family Law Attorney Department: Legal, Organizing, & Advocacy Job Responsibilities: The DV Family Law Attorney is responsible for providing consultation and legal representation to primarily immigrant survivors of intimate partner violence. This role complements a holistic array of services offered to victim/survivors within the organization. Key responsibilities include: - Providing holistic legal representation and advocacy to victims of domestic violence i
Job Title: Full Time Staff Attorney (Free to Be Youth) Job Responsibilities: The Staff Attorney will represent the legal needs of homeless and street-involved lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, and questioning (LGBTQ+) young people, up to age 24, in New York City. Responsibilities include: - Working collaboratively with the Project Director to ensure the provision of quality legal services. - Identifying systemic priorities and developing the capacity to take direction from
Job Title: Principal Court Attorney (Trial Part) to Acting Justice Job Responsibilities: Principal Court Attorneys (Trial Part) to Acting Justice are tasked with a range of responsibilities that are critical to the functioning of the Supreme Court. These responsibilities include: - Researching and analyzing uniquely intricate, complex, and sensitive legal issues and questions. - Providing personal and confidential assistance to an Acting Justice of the Supreme Court. - Anal
Job Title: Trial and Special Litigation Supervisor, Criminal Defense Practice Job Responsibilities: - Embrace the philosophy of client-centered, community-based, holistic representation and a commitment to excellence. - Oversee the supervision of attorneys involved in litigating hearings and trials, in collaboration with other supervisors. This includes establishing best practices for preparation and co-counseling. - Establish and maintain systems to ensure equitable opportu
Job Title: Training Team Supervisor, Criminal Defense Practice Job Responsibilities: - Embrace the organization’s philosophy of client-centered, community-based, holistic representation and commitment to excellence. - Design, implement, and manage the training of entry-level and lateral attorney hires on misdemeanor and felony practice. - Collaborate with other supervisors in designing and implementing training related to trial, litigation, and special litigation matters f...
Job Title: Staff Attorney, Criminal Defense Practice Job Responsibilities: The Staff Attorney in the Criminal Defense Practice is responsible for providing robust and dynamic legal representation to young residents of Northern Manhattan who are facing criminal charges and cannot afford private counsel. This role involves frequent court appearances and active participation in various stages of the criminal process, including arraignments, grand jury presentations, legal argum
Job Title: Senior Supervising Attorney, 1st Department, **Members Only** Job Responsibilities: The Senior Supervising Attorney for the 1st Department under the **Members Only** (ACP) is responsible for providing oversight and ensuring a high standard of representation and client services for ACP attorneys. These attorneys represent clients facing misdemeanor, felony, and homicide charges in the Criminal and Supreme Courts in New York City. The role requires significant independent judgment and in
Job Title: Staff Attorney, Court-Involved Youth - School Justice Project Job Responsibilities: The Staff Attorney for the School Justice Project at the organization will be responsible for a range of duties aimed at ensuring court-involved youth have access to appropriate educational services. The primary responsibilities include: - Direct representation of youth involved in, or at risk of involvement in, the juvenile or criminal legal system, addressing school-related cha
Job 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 courtroom locations throughout New York City, including the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens. In addition to parole hearings, the Staff Attorney will appear
Job 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 adverse pretrial detention decisions using writs of habeas corpus, appeals, and other strategic litigation and advocacy. - Anticipate and respond to novel legal issues re
Job Title: Supervising Attorney, Criminal Appeals 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 meetings for brainstorming case and theory development. - Counsel and advise staff on representing incarcer
Job Title: Staff Attorney, Immigrant Justice Team Job Responsibilities: - Be a part of the defense team representing non-citizen clients in criminal court. - Advocate on behalf of clients in state criminal proceedings and related matters involving federal, New York State, and New York City law. - Consult with and advise non-citizen clients and criminal defense attorneys on potential immigration consequences of criminal cases, seeking to mitigate those consequences in line wi
Job Title: Supervising Attorney, Prisoners’ Rights Project (PRP) Job Responsibilities: Legal Duties: - Maintain an active caseload of pending and new litigation to advance the goals of the Prisoners’ Rights Project. - Oversee, along with other supervising attorneys, the integration of individual client intake and advocacy into policy and litigation initiatives. - Direct legislative and administratively policy initiatives, often in collaboration with other units of the o...
Job Title: Staff Attorney, Parole Revocation Defense Unit Job Responsibilities: - Handle parole revocation at all stages, including recognizance hearings, preliminary hearings, calendar appearances, discovery practice, negotiations, contested hearings, administrative appeals, and post?conviction hearings. - Work with unit support staff, paralegals, and investigative staff to provide zealous and effective defense representation. - Collaborate with the Parole Revocation Defens
New York City office of our client seeks senior attorney with 5+ years of experience. The candidate should have an . degree from well-known and accredited law school. Must preferably have experience in handling difficult cases. Practice experience in financial, criminal, real estate, immigration services, civil law, or related fields are essential.