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About the Role

Join the Intake and Strategic Intervention team at Legal Assistance the Elderly (LAE) serving tenants who are seniors or have disabilities and are threatened with losing their homes. This role involves conducting intakes, advising clients, providing brief services, and representing clients at administrative hearings. Approximately 90% of the work is housing related, offering an opportunity to make a concrete difference in clients' lives across a high volume and wide variety of matters.

Responsibilities

Conduct intake interviews with new clients, including home and hospital visits, when necessary
Provide legal advice to tenants on housing matters
Provide brief services, such as writing estoppel letters, requests for reasonable accommodations, and requests for repairs
Represent clients at administrative hearings, including before the San Francisco Rent Board (unlawful rent increases), the San Francisco Housing Authority (subsidy terminations), and the California Civil Rights Department (housing discrimination)
Work collaboratively with the team's supervisor, paralegal/client advocates, and reception staff to ensure clients are efficiently connected to the right services
Provide legal support to Client Advocates and Paralegals
Maintain accurate computerized client files and other documentation and provide project statistics to other staff as requested
Provide in-office support to teammates responding to client emergencies and agency inquiries

Requirements

Member State Bar of California
Strong written, verbal and interviewing skills
Patient, flexible and kind
Works well in a team

Skills

Bilingual in English and Spanish, Cantonese and/or Mandarin
Knowledge of landlord-tenant law, including rent control, housing subsidies, habitability, reasonable accommodations, and housing discrimination
Knowledge of legal issues related to poverty and/or aging
Experience with administrative hearings or advocacy before administrative agencies
Experience working with elderly, disabled, or homeless individuals or those experiencing a crisis
Experience working in a non-profit legal service organization or other non-profit

Location

San Francisco

Work Type

In-office
Some evening and weekend work may be required

Experience Level

Years of related experience

Salary/Compensations

$88,000 - $98,000

Benefits

100% employer-covered medical, dental, and life insurance for employees and dependent children and up to 75% for spouses
LAE student debt reimbursement program
Employer-paid CA Bar license and/or social work license fees
403(b) retirement plan with annual LAE contribution
Generous paid leave policy including sick leave, parental leave, compensation time, 20 holidays each year, and vacation (starting at 17 days and increasing after three years)

About the Company

For over 47 years, LAE has provided free legal advice and representation to San Francisco’s seniors and adults with disabilities.
Our mission is to protect and advance the right of San Francisco’s seniors and adults with disabilities to be housed, healthy, financially stable, and safe.
Our primary practice areas are Eviction Defense/Housing Preservation, Income Support, Health Law, Financial and Physical Elder Abuse Prevention, Debt Collection Defense, Foreclosure Prevention, End of Life Planning and Conservatorship Defense.
LAE is a friendly and collaborative work environment.

Equal Opportunity

LAE seeks to fill all positions with people who share our values, including our organizational commitment to diversity.
We encourage all interested individuals to apply—especially people of color; women; people from low-income backgrounds; people with disabilities; people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, gender non-conforming, non-binary; or anyone belonging to any other federal or state protected category.
We believe that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunity and are committed to not discriminating on any basis prohibited by applicable law.