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About the Role

The Juvenile Rights Practice (JRP) seeks experienced Staff Attorneys to focus on immigration needs for Juvenile Rights clients in several trial offices. The role involves working within an interdisciplinary team to represent children aged 0-21 in NYC family courts on various petitions, with a specialization in immigration matters.

Responsibilities

• Assist in maintaining a high standard of representation in child welfare and immigration client services.
• Directly represent clients before USCIS, the asylum office, and immigration courts.
• Respond to and address emergent immigration policies affecting clients.
• Provide trainings and consultations to JRP staff on immigration issues, including SIJS, asylum, T visas, U visas, and other relief.
• Assist JRP staff in early identification of clients with immigration needs.
• Accept referrals from JRP trial attorneys for immigration assistance and screen clients for relief.
• Mentor JRP trial attorneys to obtain SIJS predicate orders, including drafting and reviewing motions and evidence.
• Conduct out-of-court case preparation, including interviewing, investigating, document review, and witness preparation.
• Draft motions, briefs, and other documents for client immigration matters.
• Compile supporting declarations and evidence for client immigration matters.
• Collaborate with colleagues across Juvenile Rights, Civil, and Criminal practice areas.
• Engage in ongoing professional development and training.
• Maintain and prioritize workload, including case management reports.
• Carry out other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• New York State Bar admission.
• Minimum of three years' experience as a practicing attorney.
• Commitment to children’s issues and juvenile justice.
• Ability to deal effectively with children, adolescents, and family members.
• Demonstrated commitment to anti-racism and serving racially and socioeconomically oppressed communities.
• Excellent writing, communication, organizational, and oral advocacy skills.
• Interest in developing new approaches to representing children with immigration issues.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in an interdisciplinary team and handle a full caseload.

Skills

• Immigration law
• Child welfare law
• Juvenile justice
• Client representation
• Legal research and writing
• Case management
• Interdisciplinary collaboration
• Training and consultation
• Spanish (preferred)

Location

• New York City trial offices

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Minimum of three years' experience as a practicing attorney

Salary/Compensations

• $86,520 - $157,075

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Paid vacation
• Disability insurance
• Life insurance
• Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) eligibility
• State and Federal loan forgiveness programs
• Potential assistance from New York state for loan repayments

About the Company

• The Legal Aid Society is a qualified employer for the purposes of the Public Service Loan Forgiveness.
• 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.