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About the Role
The Staff Attorney will focus exclusively on immigration enforcement work at the local and state level in California. The position will support the ILRC’s policy advocacy, coalition and campaign work, legal technical assistance, capacity building, trainings, and written resources related to immigration enforcement and the intersection of the immigration and criminal legal systems.
Responsibilities
- Representing the ILRC in local and statewide enforcement coalitions aiming to disentangle law enforcement from ICE, including leading or co-leading certain coalitions.
- Supporting California decarceration campaigns across the state.
- Providing individualized campaign strategy technical assistance to local campaigns at the intersection of criminal and immigration law.
- Connecting criminal and youth justice legal system reform and immigration organizers and attorneys to facilitate collaboration.
- Analyzing local and state legislation affecting ICE enforcement and immigrants' due process rights.
- Drafting legislation, advising legislative staff, and testifying before legislatures as needed.
- Supporting written resources and strategy around national enforcement issues.
- Developing a broader narrative around criminalization, prosecution, and deportation in California with local and state partners.
- Interfacing with media, giving press interviews, and supporting media campaign strategy development.
- Participating in regional collaboratives and task forces to represent the ILRC and provide information on immigrants’ rights, immigration law, and policy updates.
- Providing in-person and remote legal trainings on immigration law and policy to diverse audiences.
- Engaging in intensive writing, including updating manuals, practice advisories, and online resources.
- Writing grant proposals, reports, and supporting grant deliverables.
- Representing the ILRC in meetings with funders and supporters.
- Traveling for trainings, meetings, and other events throughout California and the United States.
Requirements
- Three to seven years of experience as an attorney in immigration law.
- Immigration removal defense experience strongly preferred.
- Experience with immigration enforcement, detention, or the intersection of immigration and criminal legal systems will be considered.
- Experience, exposure to, or interest in policy work including legislative, administrative, or budgetary advocacy at the local or state level.
- Experience working with a wide array of groups, including individuals directly impacted by immigration or criminal legal systems.
- Commitment to abolitionist values.
- Excellent communication skills and attention to detail.
- Excellent writing, editing, legal analysis, and oral presentation skills.
- Exceptional time management skills and ability to meet deadlines.
- Excellent public speaking skills.
- Skilled in conveying complex legal and policy issues to diverse audiences.
- Commitment to immigrant rights and understanding of issues related to criminalization.
- Strong work ethic, including being organized, flexible, reliable, and dependable.
- Ability to be an independent worker and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
- Ability to thrive in a team-based collaborative decision-making environment.
- Willingness to travel throughout California, and at times across the United States.
- Current Bar membership in good standing for any state or the District of Columbia.
Skills
- Immigration law
- Immigration removal defense
- Immigration enforcement
- Immigration detention
- Intersection of immigration and criminal legal systems
- Policy work
- Legislative advocacy
- Administrative advocacy
- Budgetary advocacy
- Working with diverse groups
- Working with impacted individuals
- Communication
- Attention to detail
- Writing
- Editing
- Legal analysis
- Oral presentation
- Time management
- Meeting deadlines
- Public speaking
- Conveying complex legal and policy issues
- Immigrant rights
- Criminalization issues
- Organized
- Flexible
- Reliable
- Dependable
- Independent work
- Project management
- Team collaboration
- California state court litigation
- Law enforcement accountability
- Spanish language proficiency
- Asian language proficiency
- Crim/imm law
- Electronic surveillance issues
- Privacy rights
- Criminal legal defense
- Media expertise
- Media interviews
- Op-ed writing
- Media strategy development
- Campaign support
- Immigration law policy
- Immigration issues in state court systems
- Youth justice
- Child welfare
- Probate courts
- Family courts
- Coalition work
Location
- San Francisco, CA
- Southern California
Work Type
- Full-time
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Three to seven years of relevant legal experience
- More than seven years of law school graduation year
Education Level
- Current Bar membership in good standing for any state in the United States or the District of Columbia
Salary/Compensations
- $84,718.44 to $102,492.23 (for those three to seven years out of law school)
Benefits
- Medical/dental/vision insurance
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) sessions
- Flexible spending account for medical and dependent care
- Vacation
- Sick leave
- Retirement plan contribution upon fulfillment of eligibility
- Annual professional development stipend of $2,500
- Annual wellness stipend of $2,500 (from 2025 – 2027)
- Sabbatical program (8-week after five years, 12-week after ten years)
About the Company
- The ILRC is a leading immigrant rights organization headquartered in San Francisco with staff in Washington, D.C.; Texas; Southern California; the Central Valley of California; and Washington state.
- Since 1979, our mission has been to educate, support, and empower immigrants, community organizations, and legal practitioners to build a more just, inclusive, and democratic society.
- Our team is passionate, collaborative, and committed to equity and innovation in all we do.
Equal Opportunity
- The ILRC is an equal opportunity employer and does not make hiring or employment decisions on the basis of race, color, religion or religious beliefs, ethnic or national origin, nationality, sex, gender, gender-identity, sexual orientation, disability age, military or veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable local, state or federal laws.
- Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and other similar state laws and local ordinances, ILRC will also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records.