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About the Role
Open Door Legal is seeking a Temporary Affirmative Housing Paralegal to join their housing team. This role will collaborate with the team and clients to ensure the rights of low-income San Francisco residents are protected regarding safe and healthy homes. The Affirmative Housing team addresses issues such as housing discrimination, illegal rent increases, landlord harassment, and more.
Responsibilities
- Embody the mission of universal access to civil legal aid and ensure housing needs of clients are met.
- Empower Affirmative Housing Law litigants to understand their rights and resolve legal issues.
- Support the team with administrative and advocacy responsibilities under attorney supervision.
- Gain competency in paralegal administrative tasks including filings, service of process, and evidence review.
- Gain competency in basic Housing Law and direct services legal advocacy, including client and time management.
- Draft court forms such as fee waivers, proofs of service, and other relevant filings.
- Draft petitions for rent board filings and gather necessary evidentiary materials.
- Execute timely and error-free filings and mailings, communicating with court clerks as needed.
- Physically go to SF Superior Court weekly for filings, deliveries, and pickups.
- Oversee timely service of process using various methods and coordinate with process servers.
- Assist with fact-gathering for client cases through various means.
- Draft pleadings, motions, complaints, petitions, and discovery documents under attorney supervision.
- Support client intakes in-person and virtually.
- Embrace and embody organizational values of teamwork, grit, caring, passion, and dynamism.
Requirements
- At least an associate’s degree or equivalent (a paralegal certificate is acceptable).
- At least one year of experience as a paralegal, legal assistant, legal secretary, tenant organizer, or client advocate.
- Ability to commute to ODL’s offices three days a week.
- Strong time management skills and ability to meet critical deadlines with minimal supervision.
- High level of comfort learning and using technology and cloud-based case management systems (Salesforce, Dropbox, Google Suite).
- Genuine motivation for working with low-income clients and ability to work competently with clients impacted by trauma.
- Actively demonstrate cultural humility and sensitivity to barriers faced by low-income residents.
- Legally authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship.
Skills
- Time management
- Organization
- Technology proficiency
- Cloud-based case management systems
- Salesforce
- Dropbox
- Google Suite
- Client management
- Cultural humility
- Cultural sensitivity
- Spanish translation and interpretation (bonus)
- Housing law (bonus)
- San Francisco Superior Court interaction (bonus)
- Working with low-income and vulnerable populations (bonus)
- Direct services legal aid environment experience (bonus)
Location
- San Francisco, CA
Work Type
- Full-time
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Entry-level
- Mid-level
Education Level
- Associate's degree or equivalent
- Paralegal certificate
Salary/Compensations
- $70,500-$86,500 (Legal Assistant)
- $72,500-$88,500 (Paralegal)
Benefits
- Loan Repayment Assistance
- Medical/Dental/Vision Plan offerings at 100% coverage
- Generous paid time off (four weeks vacation and two weeks sick/care)
- Flexible work hours
- Generous paid parental leave
- 401K/Retirement Account
- Financial investment in professional development (mentorships, coaching, conferences, workshops)
About the Company
- Open Door Legal (ODL) is pioneering a system of universal access to civil legal representation to reduce poverty.
- ODL has grown 150x in 10 years and aims to scale across San Francisco.
- ODL is an award-winning and best-in-class legal aid organization.
- The organization is comprised of passionate, motivated, gritty, thoughtful, and team-oriented people.
- ODL believes injustice is the heart of poverty and works to ensure justice for all.
- The housing practice team is the largest practice group at ODL.
- The Affirmative Housing team addresses issues such as housing discrimination, illegal rent increases, landlord harassment, and more.
- The company offers best-in-class technology solutions.
Equal Opportunity
- Open Door Legal is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer.
- We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics.
- We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state, and local law, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
- We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process.