Description:
About Position:Whistleblower Aid is seeking a motivated associate counsel to support our expanding casework. This role will support a small legal team with core activities including drafting legal disclosures, managing cases and clients, legal research, and case management. The associate role will also support case communications and advocacy work as well as organizational legal needs. Whistleblower Aid's work is highly sensitive and this position requires absolute discretion and professionalism.
This is a full time, at will, employee position. This role is hybrid, serving our office in Washington, DC with a minimum two days in office per week.
Responsibilities:
- Assists in drafting and editing legal documents including: correspondence, disclosures, affidavits and other filings
- Research statutes, legislation, regulations, case law, and other legal resources and prepare written analysis
- Develops and maintains client relationships, including to prepare evidence, declarations, and other materials with clients
- Review evidence and case documentation and prepare written analysis, chronologies, summaries, and digests
- Manage client case files, including in e-discovery programs, as needed.
- Design and execute advocacy and communications strategy in service of cases and client
- Lead and support other organizational needs, including producing contracts, legal risk assessment, thought leadership, and other projects
- Other duties as assigned
Job Requirements:
- 3+ years of legal experience
- J.D. and at least one state bar membership
- Excellent legal research and writing skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to multitask, take initiative, work independently and meet deadlines in a dynamic and fast-paced small team environment
- Excellent interpersonal skills, including client relationship building and empathy
- Excellent organizational skills with high attention to detail
- Advanced analytical skills including issue spotting and problem solving
- Competency with legal citation i.e. Bluebook
- Ability to maintain confidentiality, trust, and exercise discretion
- Mission driven, with an interest in justice, resilient democracy, and corporate accountability
- Experience working with DOJ, an OIG, an agency general counsel's office, a federal agency with investigative or civil enforcement authority, or congressional investigations team a plus
About Whistleblower Aid:
Whistleblower Aid provides pro bono legal, advocacy, and communications support to government and private sector whistleblowers acting in the public interest. The organization's lawyers have represented some of the most consequential national security and Big Tech whistleblowers in history, including the Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen, the anonymous intelligence community whistleblower whose disclosures led to the first impeachment of President Trump, and others.
