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About the Role
The Legal Aid Society’s Civil Practice is seeking a Supervising Attorney to join the citywide Immigration Law Unit’s Non-Detained Removal Defense team. This role will assist in coordinating and supervising the Immigration Opportunity Initiatives (IOI) Program, handling both affirmative and defensive immigration matters, and providing strategic guidance on immigration litigation.
Responsibilities
- Assist in the direct supervision and mentoring of staff attorneys, paralegal casehandlers, interns, and volunteers.
- Provide strategic guidance on immigration matters, including appeals and cases requiring federal litigation.
- Monitor and maintain a high standard of representation and client service.
- Analyze legal issues, develop legal strategy, and supervise implementation.
- Train and mentor staff members.
- Foster and encourage teamwork and communication.
- Assist with the development and implementation of programs.
- Assist with program funding and reporting.
- Respond to client, community, and staff concerns.
- Provide individualized consultation to other Society staff.
- Engage in policy advocacy.
- Maintain a reasonable caseload.
- Schedule employee hours, assign work, and approve time off and remote work schedule requests.
- Attend management meetings and participate in management trainings.
- Conduct management and supervision practices that support equity and inclusion.
- Supervise direct reports in setting performance standards, providing feedback, coaching, and issuing disciplinary action.
- Identify and provide training and development opportunities and ensure mandatory trainings are completed.
- Participate in continuous professional development.
- Continuously learn about forms of bias in the workplace and demonstrate affirmative behaviors that support an inclusive work environment.
- Other duties as assigned.
Requirements
- Admission to New York State Bar.
- Must be eligible to immediately seek admission to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second and Third Circuits and U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
- Minimum of three years of legal practice.
- Minimum of five years of immigration legal practice preferred.
- Knowledge of the intersection of immigration and criminal law preferred.
- Proficiency in languages other than English is desirable, but not required.
- Excellent research, writing, analytical, organizational, and communication skills.
- Comprehensive knowledge of immigration law (including criminal immigration law and asylum law).
- Extensive experience litigating cases in immigration court and before the BIA.
- Experience with federal litigation.
- Demonstrated commitment to and experience in public interest law and civil legal services.
- Experience supervising and mentoring others.
- Excellent oral and written advocacy skills.
- Experience working in a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to manage relationships and effectively communicate with ILU management team and other Civil Practice administrative staff.
- Highly self-motivated and able to work independently.
- Ability to schedule, assign, and manage work and resolve problems.
- Ability to manage work, including assessment of process and outcomes, gathering information, recommending alternatives, or elevating issues.
- Ability to clearly identify roles, responsibilities, delegate tasks, and hold people accountable.
- Ability to create and implement effective communication plans.
- Ability to provide meaningful performance feedback for professional development, including difficult conversations and resolving sensitive employee issues.
- Pursue continuous learning on forms of systemic oppression of marginalized identities and establish team norms and management practices using an equity mindset and informed by inclusive practices.
- Commitment to Legal Aid Society’s mission to secure equal justice before the law for all New Yorkers.
- Interpersonal and communication skills that enable healthy and productive working relationships.
- Ability to perform duties with the highest regard for confidentiality, integrity, and respect.
- Commitment to Legal Aid Society’s mission and values.
- Mostly sedentary, significant time using a computer and monitor; communicating and meeting using video.
Skills
- Immigration Law
- Removal Defense
- Affirmative Immigration Applications
- Federal Litigation
- Legal Strategy Development
- Mentoring
- Supervision
- Teamwork
- Communication
- Policy Advocacy
- Research
- Writing
- Analytical Skills
- Organizational Skills
- Oral Advocacy
- Written Advocacy
- Relationship Management
- Independent Work
- Problem Solving
- Delegation
- Performance Feedback
- Conflict Resolution
- Equity and Inclusion Practices
- Interpersonal Skills
- Confidentiality
- Integrity
- Respect
Location
- New York City
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Minimum of three years of legal practice
- Minimum of five years of immigration legal practice preferred
Salary/Compensations
- $102,120 - $172,675
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Paid vacation
- Disability insurance
- Life insurance
- Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF)
- State and Federal loan forgiveness programs
- Assistance from New York state for loan repayments (depending on years of practice)
About the Company
- The Legal Aid Society’s Civil Practice is a recognized leader in providing high-quality representation to non-citizens in all five boroughs of New York City and surrounding counties.
- Our staff of almost 100 attorneys, social workers, and paralegals across seven different projects and initiatives work collaboratively to provide client-centered, interdisciplinary, and comprehensive legal services.
- The Legal Aid Society is committed to a work culture of zealous advocacy, respect, diversity and inclusion, client-oriented defense, access to justice and excellent representation.
- We are dedicated to building a strong professional relationship with each of our clients (people), to understanding their diverse circumstances, and to meeting their needs.
- Every member of our community is expected to continuously learn about the dynamic, evolving, and emerging field of knowledge of identity, bias, and systemic forms of oppression and participate in productive efforts to dismantling bias in all forms.
Equal Opportunity
- As an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Employer, The Legal Aid Society prohibits discriminatory employment actions against and treatment of its employees and applicants for employment based on actual or perceived race or color, size (including bone structure, body size, height, shape, and weight), religion or creed, alienage or citizenship status, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity (one’s internal deeply-held sense of one’s gender which may be the same or different from one’s sex assigned at birth); gender expression (the representation of gender as expressed through, for example, one’s name, choice of pronouns, clothing, haircut, behavior, voice, or body characteristics; gender expression may not conform to traditional gender-based stereotypes assigned to specific gender identities), disability, marital status, relationship and family structure (including domestic partnerships, polyamorous families and individuals, chosen family, platonic co-parents, and multigenerational families), genetic information or predisposing genetic characteristics, military status, domestic violence victim status, arrest or pre-employment conviction record, credit history, unemployment status, caregiver status, salary history, or any other characteristic protected by law.