Title: Post-Graduate Legal Fellowships Job Responsibilities: - Litigate statutory and constitutional civil rights claims on behalf of incarcerated people, primarily in federal court. - Conduct visits to prisons and other institutions to meet with clients and monitor ongoing conditions of confinement. - Work closely...
Title: Post-Graduate Legal Fellow Job Responsibilities: - Litigate statutory and constitutional civil rights claims on behalf of incarcerated individuals, primarily in federal court. - Conduct visits to prisons and other institutions to meet with clients and monitor ongoing conditions of confinement. - Work closely...
Title: Post-Graduate Legal Fellowship Job Responsibilities: - Litigate statutory and constitutional civil rights claims on behalf of incarcerated people, primarily in federal court. - Conduct visits to prisons and other institutions to meet with clients and monitor ongoing conditions of confinement. - Work closely...
Title: Assistant Defender - Fall 2026 Job Responsibilities: The Assistant Defender is responsible for providing high-quality, client-centered legal representation to individuals facing criminal charges in Philadelphia. As part of an interdisciplinary team, the Assistant Defender collaborates with social workers, investigators, mitigation specialists,...
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Legal Services of Philadelphia, Inc. (CLS) is seeking a compassionate and highly driven staff attorney to work across two practice groups, the SSI Unit and Health & Independence (H&I) Unit. The staff attorney will focus on ensuring that low-income Philadelphians can access the income supports from the Social Security Administration (SSA) that they need to thrive. The position will blend individual client representation with innovative policy work and comm... read more
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- D Attorney Duties: Provide routine representation in paternity actions, including cases involving issues related to presumption of paternity and/or estoppel; and actions to establish paternity consistent with PA. . . Provide routine representation in: hearings whenever the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Human Service’s interest is jeopardized, including cases in which the children are recipients of TANF benefits; hearings wherein the obligee file... read more
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Assistant Defender - Criminal (Fall 2021) Duties: Complementing trial practice, focuses on meeting the needs of clients pre-trial and following incarceration. Focus on getting people... out of the criminal justice system in the early stages to avoid an arduous process that can be detrimental to clients, families, and communities. Represents people charged with crimes.... read more
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Public Defender I The candidate will be providing professional legal representation to indigent adults charged with crime and to juveniles in delinquency proceedings. Practice in magisterial district court, court of common pleas, and Pennsylvania appellate courts. Reports to and receives direct supervision from a Public Defender Manager with oversight from the First Deputy Public Defender and the Chief Public Defender. Provide competent and effective legal represen... read more
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Director The candidate responsibilities includes: Help to develop legal strategy and impact litigation to expand, defend and assert the human rights of incarcerated people, as well as litigation that will bring people home from prison. Assign work (within the constraints of their capacity and core work assignments) to firm's Law Project’s two attorney co-founders and direct the work of legal interns. Work with firm's Law Project’s three-person management team to develo... read more
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Justice Policy Advocate The candidate will have knowledge of Pennsylvania’s criminal justice systems, an understanding of the levers of change within these systems, and experience working with government stakeholders, diverse communities, and data. They will also have experience undertaking and managing projects involving many partners, complex issues, and extensive writing. This candidate must also have a strong commitment to working collaboratively with grassroots... read more
Note: This job is no longer active. It was originally posted on [Date] and is part of LawCrossing’s historical archive of legal jobs. While the position may have been filled, employers often remain open to exceptional candidates for similar roles. LawCrossing has tracked this employer's hiring activity for over 25 years. This listing is provided for informational and outreach purposes and may still lead to employment. Learn more about archive jobs and how powerful they are for your search, click here
Assistant Public Defender I The candidate will be responsible for: Provide competent and effective legal representation to adult defendants and to allegedly delinquent children in the following court proceedings: preliminary hearings in magisterial district court for adults charged with homicide, felony offenses, misdemeanor offenses. trials in magisterial district court for summary offenses in which incarceration is a likely punishment.... jury and non-jury trials in the court... read more
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Management Chief I The candidate will be responsible for the management of a team of assistant public defenders assigned to a specific individual criminal judge. Will be acting as liaison with the individual criminal court judge during day-to-day operation of that court, and is responsible for the overall management of cases within the team, including case assignment, preliminary hearings, pretrial motions, probation/parole violation hearings, trials and miscellaneous c... read more
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Engagement Staff Attorney Duties: Will plan and organize outreach events and clinics; recruit, train, and oversee the work of volunteer attorneys and law students; and represent clients in a host of legal matters, focusing on the collateral consequences of having a criminal record and providing second chances for clients who had previous interaction with the criminal justice system. Pennsylvania recently enacted one of the most progressive Clean Slate laws in the n... read more
Note: This job is no longer active. It was originally posted on [Date] and is part of LawCrossing’s historical archive of legal jobs. While the position may have been filled, employers often remain open to exceptional candidates for similar roles. LawCrossing has tracked this employer's hiring activity for over 25 years. This listing is provided for informational and outreach purposes and may still lead to employment. Learn more about archive jobs and how powerful they are for your search, click here
Assistant Public Defender DUTIES: The candidate should be a focused and hard-working candidate for a contract position of Assistant Public Defender. Duties include representing indigent Defendants of all charges that could reasonably lead to incarceration, including all misdemeanors, felonies,... and even specific traffic violations through all levels of the Pennsylvania court system from Magisterial District Courts up to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. Reporting to the Chie... read more
Note: This job is no longer active. It was originally posted on [Date] and is part of LawCrossing’s historical archive of legal jobs. While the position may have been filled, employers often remain open to exceptional candidates for similar roles. LawCrossing has tracked this employer's hiring activity for over 25 years. This listing is provided for informational and outreach purposes and may still lead to employment. Learn more about archive jobs and how powerful they are for your search, click here