New York Legal Assistance Group

Job Description:LegalHealth, a division of the New York Legal Assistance Group (NYLAG), has an immediate opening for a Supervising Immigration Attorney to join one of the longest standing and the largest Medical-Legal Partnership (MLP) in the country.LegalHealth partners with a diverse array of medical professionals in 38 hospitals throughout New York to address the health harming legal needs of low-inc...

Job Description:The Evelyn Frank Legal Resources Program (EFLRP) has an immediate opening for a 2-year Staff Attorney Fellow. The fellowship will focus on health advocacy to ensure that older adults and people with disabilities, including those with chronic illnesses, maintain access to Medicaid healthcare coverage under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) and during New York's ongoing efforts to modernize ...

Job Description:NYLAG's Community Access Programs Unit (CAPU) and Employment Law Project (ELP) have an immediate opening for a Temporary Staff Attorney (6 Months) to work on an existing docket of unemployment insurance cases. The Staff Attorney will review and analyze Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board cases, propose next steps to CAPU and ELP Directors, and advise and represent clients on pending unemployment...

Job Description:NYLAG seeks a highly motivated Supervising Attorney for a full-time position. The job requires broad substantive knowledge and experience representing immigrants in detained and non-detained removal proceedings, including bond and individual merits hearings with a variety of defenses including Asylum, Withholding of Removal, protection under the Convention Against Torture, Cancellation of Remov...

Job Description:The New York Legal Assistance Group (NYLAG) seeks a highly motivated, Immigration Attorney for a full-time, temporary position with the LGBTQ Law Unit. The LGBTQ Law Unit seeks a temporary fulltime attorney, preferably experienced, to join our team and advocate for our LGBTQ immigrant clients facing removal.NYLAG's LGBTQ Law Unit, founded in 2008, exists to protect and expand the rights ...

Job Description:Applicants must be prepared to handle a high volume of cases and to interact with an under-represented client population in a sensitive and professional manner. Applicants must have excellent analytical skills to assess whether clients have a legal basis for appeal based on the evidence. Applicants should demonstrate a clear commitment to public service and have s...

Job Description:NYLAG's Immigrant Protection Unit (IPU) seeks a highly motivated Spanish-speaking Staff Attorney for a permanent, full-time position. The job requires substantive knowledge and experience defending immigrants in removal proceedings including claims based on Asylum, Withholding of Removal, protection under the Convention Against Torture, Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS), relief under VAWA...

Job Description:The New York Legal Assistance Group (NYLAG) seeks a highly motivated Temporary Staff Attorney for a full-time position representing individuals and families in applications for immigration relief. This position will collaborate with a team of other NYLAG staff attorneys and paralegals under the Office for New Americans (ONA) program to provide consultations, presentations, legal representation, ...