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. - 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 ser
Job Title: Fall 2026 Law Graduates, Family Defense Job Responsibilities: - Work as part of the organization’s interdisciplinary legal teams, which consist of attorneys, social work staff, paralegals, and parent advocates, to provide high-quality legal defense to clients. - Meet objectives such as keeping children out of the foster system, shortening the lengths of stay for children in the foster system, promoting quality visiting arrangements, and ensuring that families r...
Job Title: Fall 2026 Law Graduates, Family Defense Job Responsibilities: Law Graduates will join the organization as part of interdisciplinary legal teams composed of attorneys, social work staff, paralegals, and parent advocates. The primary responsibilities include: - Providing high-quality legal defense to clients, focusing on keeping children out of the foster system and reducing their length of stay if they are placed in foster care. - Promoting quality visiting arrange
Job Title: Spring 2026 Law Graduates 2026, Family Defense Job Responsibilities: - Work as part of interdisciplinary legal teams, including attorneys, social work staff, paralegals, and parent advocates, to provide high-quality legal defense. - Aim to keep children out of the foster system and minimize their stay if they enter it. - Promote quality visiting arrangements and ensure families receive services tailored to expedite safe and lasting reunification. - Represent paren
Job Title: Spring 2026 Law Graduates, Family Defense Job Responsibilities: - Work as part of interdisciplinary legal teams at the organization, which includes attorneys, social work staff, paralegals, and parent advocates, to deliver high-quality legal defense for clients. - Aim to keep children out of the foster system, reduce the time children spend in foster care, promote quality visiting arrangements, and ensure families receive services that expedite safe and lasting re
Job Title: Spring 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: Staff Attorney, 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 clients' objectives such as keeping children out of the foster system, shortening lengths of stay for children in the foster system, promoting quality family time arrangements, and ensuring families receive
Job Title: Staff Attorney, Immigration Practice Job Responsibilities: The Staff Attorney in the Immigration Practice is primarily responsible for representing clients in removal proceedings in Immigration Court and other administrative and judicial bodies. The attorney assists clients in applying for affirmative relief and other immigration benefits with USCIS and provides Padilla consults to the organization's criminal, family defense, and youth defense practices. The role
Job Title: Law Graduate Fall 2026, Youth Defense Practice Job Responsibilities: The Law Graduate will work under the supervision of CFR’s Youth Defense Supervisors. The primary responsibilities include representing clients charged with juvenile delinquency in Family Court and handling cases involving adolescent and juvenile offenders (AO and JO) in the Supreme Court Youth Parts that are being transferred to Family Court. The candidate will be involved in: - Receiving trai...
Job Title: Law Graduate (2025 Grad), Youth Defense Practice Job Responsibilities: - Represent clients charged with juvenile delinquency matters in Family Court. - Manage cases involving adolescent and juvenile offenders (AO and JO) whose cases are being transferred to family court from the Supreme Court Youth Parts. - Collaborate with legal teams, including attorneys, social work staff, investigators, and paralegals, to provide comprehensive defense services. - Participate i
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 s
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 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
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 s
Job Title: Spring 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. - 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
Job Title: Spring 2026 Law Graduates 2026, Family Defense Job Responsibilities: - Work as part of interdisciplinary legal teams, including attorneys, social work staff, paralegals, and parent 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
Job Title: Spring 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 Immigration Practice Staff Attorney Job Responsibilities - Advise non-citizens with pending criminal or family court cases on the immigration consequences of contemplated dispositions and mitigate the impact of their involvement with the legal system. - Represent non-citizens in applications for immigration benefits, including citizenship, adjustment of status, Special Immigrant Juvenile Status, and remedies for victims of crimes. - Represent both non-detained
Job Title: Immigration Practice Legal Director Job Responsibilities: The Immigration Practice Legal Director at the organization will be responsible for a variety of duties aimed at supporting and advancing the Immigration Practice. Key responsibilities include: - Client Representation: Represent a reduced caseload of clients, primarily in federal court matters. - Legal Strategies: Provide strategic advice and support on legal issues to the Immigration Practice. Host Prac
Job Title: Staff Attorney - Detained Minors Project Job Responsibilities: - Oversee a team of paralegals in providing legal orientations, such as Know Your Rights trainings, and 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
Job Title: Supervising Attorney - Detained Minors Project Job Responsibilities: - Represent young individuals aged 12 to 21 in immigration matters, including Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS), asylum, U Visas, T Visas, and proceedings before family and immigration courts. - Supervise junior attorneys, fellows, paralegals, social workers, and administrative assistants by overseeing client interactions, court work, and reviewing written work, as well as providing suppor
Job Title: Immigration Staff Attorney, Lateral Job Responsibilities: - Advise non-citizens with pending criminal or family court cases on the immigration consequences of contemplated dispositions and work to mitigate the impact of their involvement with the legal system. - Represent non-citizens in applications for immigration benefits, including citizenship, adjustment of status, Special Immigrant Juvenile Status, and remedies for victims of crimes. - Represent both detaine
Job Title: Law Graduate, 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) in Supreme Court Youth Parts, with cases removed to Family Court. - Collaborate with legal teams including attorneys, social work staff, investigators, and paralegals. Teams may also involve staff from CFR’s immigration or housing/public benefits unit...
Job 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 other necessary services, both internally and externally. - Act as a liaison with foster care agencies to provide immigration legal services to youth in foster care. - Le
Job 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 and judicial bodies. The attorney will assist clients in applying for affirmative relief and other immigration benefits with USCIS and provide Padi
Job Title: Law Graduate Fall 2026, Youth Defense Practice, Bronx Job Responsibilities: Under the supervision and guidance of the Youth Defense Supervisors at the organization, the Law Graduate will be primarily responsible for representing clients charged with juvenile delinquency matters in Family Court. This includes representing clients charged as adolescent and juvenile offenders (AO and JO) whose cases are being moved to Family Court from the Supreme Court Youth Parts.
Job Title: Associate Attorney, Immigration Practice Job Responsibilities: - Provide trauma-informed legal advice and counsel to non-citizen survivors of domestic violence and human trafficking, assisting them in understanding and pursuing available legal options. - Represent clients before the Citizenship and Immigration Service (CIS), the New York Asylum Office, and the New York Immigration Court on both affirmative and defensive applications. - Direct representation includ
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 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
Job Title: Fall 2026 Law Graduates, Family Defense Job Responsibilities: - Work as part of organization’s interdisciplinary legal teams, which include attorneys, social work staff, paralegals, and parent advocates. - 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 ...
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 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
Job Title: Spring 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 the length of stay for children in the foster system, promoting quality visiting arrangements, and ensuring families receive s
Job Title: Spring 2026 Law Graduates, Family Defense Job Responsibilities: - Work as part of the organization's interdisciplinary legal teams (comprised of 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 families receive s
Job Title: Spring 2026 Law Graduates, Family Defense Job Responsibilities: - Work as part of interdisciplinary legal teams, which include attorneys, social work staff, paralegals, and parent advocates, 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
Job Title: NYIFUP Director, Immigration Practice Job Responsibilities: - Lead and oversee all aspects of the New York Immigrant Family Unity Project (NYIFUP) team within the immigration practice. - Ensure high-quality legal representation for detained immigrants and manage legal strategy. - Support the professional development of staff and collaborate with other NYIFUP providers, community partners, and stakeholders. - Ensure the NYIFUP team provides the best possible repres
Job Title: Immigration Attorney, Detained Removal Defense Job Responsibilities: - Represent noncitizen clients in both detained and non-detained removal proceedings and immigration appeals. - Litigate issues such as custody and bond, removability, and eligibility for immigration relief. - Make regular appearances in immigration court, with in-person appearances when required. - Maintain consistent communication with clients, including meeting detained clients in person at im
Job Title: Staff Attorney, Litigation Team Job Responsibilities: The Staff Attorney position within the litigation team focuses on investigating, developing, and litigating cases on behalf of transgender and gender-nonconforming individuals. Specific responsibilities include: - Investigating and developing potential new cases by corresponding and meeting with potential clients, conducting research, reviewing records, and drafting demand letters. - Developing litigation stra
Job Title: Staff Attorney, Litigation Team Job Responsibilities: The Staff Attorney on the Litigation Team will play a pivotal role in the **Members Only**'s efforts to advocate for transgender and gender nonconforming individuals through legal channels. The primary responsibilities of this position include: - Investigating and developing potential new cases by engaging with potential clients, conducting comprehensive research, reviewing records, and drafting demand l
Job 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 part of the role involves conducting presentations and trainings aimed at internal and external audiences, including community-based organizations and other servi
Job 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 affirmative relief and other immigration benefits with USCIS and provide Padilla consults to the organization’s criminal, family defense, and youth defense practic...