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About the Role
Legal Services NYC (LSNYC) seeks a highly motivated and dedicated attorney to join its team as General Counsel. This new position will report to LSNYC’s Executive Director and work closely with the Senior Leadership team to provide high-level guidance to the organization. This is a challenging role requiring expertise in multiple areas of law and strategic thinking skills.
Responsibilities
- Providing labor and employment law advice to LSNYC’s Executive Director and senior management, and, when appropriate, in consultation with outside counsel.
- Advising senior management on grievances under the CBA, conducting grievance hearings as requested and representing the organization in arbitration or collaborating with outside counsel in preparing for arbitrations.
- Assisting with collective bargaining, including responding to union information requests.
- Providing guidance for the organization in risk management including proactive solutions to manage risk.
- Representing the organization or assisting with litigation and other matters in which LSNYC and/or its employees are parties, including working with outside counsel.
- Advising and training on professional responsibility matters and identifying and resolving client conflicts of interest.
- Reviewing real estate leases.
- Drafting agreements for the organization.
- Reviewing and negotiating grants and contracts with funders, vendors, and subcontractors.
- Supervising LSNYC’s Compliance department which ensures compliance with applicable laws governing New York nonprofits, including New York’s Not-for-Profit Corporation Law.
- Developing and updating office policies.
- Performing other duties as assigned.
Requirements
- Juris Doctor (JD) from an accredited law school and state bar admission in New York or eligibility for immediate membership.
- Minimum of 10 years of legal experience.
- Substantial supervisory/managerial experience.
- Labor and employment law experience, including supervisory/managerial experience in a unionized environment.
- Experience with corporate governance and regulatory and compliance issues.
- Excellent judgment and discretion, and the ability to balance legal risks with business demands.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Excellent analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to further the goals of a mission-driven organization and to be guided by its values.
- Ability to work well with diverse constituencies.
- Demonstrated commitment to public interest work and/or supporting work for social change.
Skills
- Labor law
- Employment law
- Supervisory/management experience
- Strategic thinking
- Corporate governance
- Regulatory and compliance issues
- Risk management
- Litigation
- Professional responsibility
- Client conflict of interest resolution
- Grant and contract negotiation
- Policy development
Location
- New York City
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 10+ years of legal experience
- Substantial supervisory/managerial experience
Education Level
- Juris Doctor (JD)
- New York State Bar Admission or eligibility
Salary/Compensations
- $171,978.00 - $222,343.00 USD
Benefits
- Health, dental and vision plans
- Contributions to a 403(b) plan
- Generous leave time
About the Company
- Legal Services NYC (LSNYC) fights poverty and seeks racial, social and economic justice for low-income New Yorkers.
- For over 50 years, we have challenged systemic injustices that trap people in poverty and provided legal services that help our clients meet basic needs for housing, income and economic security, family and immigration stability, education, and health care.
- LSNYC is the largest civil legal services provider in the country; our staff of more than 600 people in neighborhood-based offices and outreach sites across all five boroughs helps hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers annually.
- We partner with scores of community-based and client-run organizations, elected officials, public agencies, pro bono lawyers, and the courts to maximize our effectiveness.
- Our work fights discrimination and helps to achieve equity for all low-income New Yorkers.
- LSNYC employees have numerous opportunities for growth and professional development, including access to our internal Justice Learning Center, which provides opportunities to earn free CLEs and gain experience as a trainer.
- LSNYC currently has a staff of over 700, including attorneys, paralegals and social workers as well as administrative professionals.
- We are a unionized program with over 500 of those employees belonging to a wall to wall union, LSSA 2320.
Equal Opportunity
- Legal Services NYC is an equal opportunity employer.
- People of color, women, people with disabilities, people over 40, and gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people are strongly encouraged to apply.