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Attorney - Low-Income Tenant Representation
2 months ago
About the Position:
Bay Area Legal Aid is seeking an experienced attorney to join our Housing Law and Social Justice team. As a Staff Attorney, you will be responsible for representing low-income tenants in eviction proceedings, fair housing cases, and other housing-related matters.
Key Responsibilities:
- Represent clients in administrative hearings and eviction proceedings, including motions, discovery, trials, and appeals.
- Advocate for tenants on issues of fair housing, substandard conditions, and Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) cases.
- Identify systemic problems affecting our clients' housing rights and address these challenges through affirmative litigation and policy work.
- Collaborate with local and national tenant advocacy communities.
- Provide workshops and technical assistance to community partners and clients on housing law, tenants' rights, and civil legal issues.
- Develop relationships and engage in collaboration with public and private community partners to ensure integrative services and address systemic barriers facing our client community.
- Work with our development, grants, and communications team to promote Bay Area Legal Aid's mission and resource development.
Requirements and Qualifications:
- Membership in good standing in the California State Bar or admission to practice in another state and eligibility to practice in California for 3 years under the California State Bar rules for the Registered Legal Services Attorney Program.
- Housing law experience or other transferable litigation skills preferred.
- Experience directly representing clients in litigation or another similar setting preferred.
- Language fluency and proficiency in Spanish, Vietnamese, or another language regularly used in services to our client community preferred (wage differential available upon passing test for fluency and written proficiency).
- Experience and skills maintaining organization of time, managing diverse activities, and meeting critical deadlines with minimal supervision.
- Excellent writing, editing, and proof-reading skills, with ability to be detail-oriented.
- Experience and commitment to working collaboratively with a dynamic team.
- Curious and self-directed with an ability to anticipate what needs to be done.
- Ability to simultaneously manage multiple projects while maintaining a firm grasp of individual project details.
- Sense of humor and proactive problem solver.
Benefits and Compensation:
We offer a diverse, family-friendly environment, and competitive compensation based on public interest salaries, along with a generous benefits package. Our benefits include 100% employer-covered medical, dental, and life insurance for employees and up to 60% for dependents; Bay Area Legal Aid student debt reimbursement program; long-term disability insurance; employee assistance program; wage differentials for multi-lingual employees whose non-English language skills are regularly used in the provision of work tasks and pass a request test of fluency and/or proficiency; dependent childcare employer contribution program; employer-paid CA Bar license and/or social work license fees; and 401(k) retirement plan with Bay Area Legal Aid contribution following the first year.
How to Apply:
Please submit your application, including a cover letter, resume, references, and writing sample, through our website.
