Description:
About the Job:Atlanta Legal Aid Society (“Legal Aid”) seeks a Managing Attorney for its Clayton County Office. The Clayton County office is located on Adamson Parkway in Morrow, Georgia, just east of I-85 South, 12 miles from downtown Atlanta. The staff currently consists of a managing attorney, 5 full-time attorneys, a navigator, and four support staff. Attorneys in the Clayton office represent low-income persons in Clayton County in a wide variety of civil law matters, including housing, family law, public benefits, consumer issues, and education law, through community education, brief service, advice and referral, transactional work, negotiation, mediation, and litigation.
Responsibilities:
- Overall management, quality, and efficacy of the office.
- Direct supervision of staff.
- Conducting staff meetings, administering performance reviews, and cultivating an environment for professional development and growth.
- Conducting regular one-on-one meetings, providing constructive feedback, and mentoring junior staff.
- Working closely with Legal Aid's management team to coordinate client services.
- Serving as a point of escalation for complex cases, client issues, or internal conflicts.
- Serving as a primary representative of Legal Aid in the Clayton County community, maintaining relations with the local bar and bench, government, community organizations, and funding sources.
- Handling an active caseload, although lower than that of the staff attorneys.
Qualifications:
- Active member in good standing in the State Bar of Georgia (preferred, or active membership in another state bar and eligible for reciprocity in Georgia.
- Minimum of seven years of experience litigating in various legal forums.
- Experience managing staff, including supervising and mentoring attorneys.
- Excellent legal writing and oral advocacy skills.
- Excellent interpersonal, communication, and organizational skills.
- Demonstrated ability to use sound judgment to resolve issues effectively and fairly.
- Demonstrated ability to work in a collaborative, hybrid team model, with an appreciation for diversity.
- Previous experience working with low-income persons and knowledge of the program's core civil practice areas are preferred.
- Proficiency in languages other than English is highly valued.
Salary and benefits:
- The salary offered for this position is up to $100,000, contingent upon the candidate's experience and bar admission status. Salaries are reviewed and adjusted annually, depending on funding.
- Generous fringe benefits, including 18 paid holidays in 2025, 6 weeks of paid time off (accruing at 2.5 days per month) in the first two years, and 6 weeks of parental leave (12 weeks after one year).
- Individual health insurance, including optional dental and vision coverage, with partial payment for dependent health insurance.
- Life, long-term, and short-term disability insurance.
- Salary reduction option for a flexible spending account.
- Educational loan reimbursement up to $600 per month (after a set off of other loan reimbursement amounts).
- Voluntary tax-sheltered annuity with 3% match.
- State Bar of Georgia dues and CLE expenses.
- Hybrid work schedule that allows staff to work 2 days remotely, subject to the approval of management and after a probationary employment period. Managing attorneys are expected to have a greater physical presence in the office.
Application Requirements: Submit a letter of interest, resume, writing sample which demonstrates your ability to research and analyze legal issues, official law school transcript (a copy is acceptable pending your order of an official transcript), and the names, phone numbers and e-mail addresses of three professional references with a brief statement as to the connection to the applicant, as one (1) PDF using our online application system at the following link: Atlantalegalaid.org/jobs. Only applications with all of the requested documents will be considered for an interview. Internal candidates need not provide transcripts, which should already be on file.
Your application will be acknowledged. No phone calls, please. For assistance with technical difficulties in submitting your application, please email career@atlantalegalaid.org.
ALAS considers all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, or any other legally protected status.