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Description:Experienced Immigration Attorney – Remote - Part-Time (20-30 hours/week)
Are you extremely passionate about immigrants' rights and being part of a thriving, tight-knit team that shares your passion?
Have you worked at a non-profit, as a solo practitioner, as an immigration judge, at a big office, or tried it all and know at this point in your career that an organized, flexible, and supportive work environment is vital so you can focus 100% on meeting potential clients and helping clients within a diverse caseload?
Are you able to use your excellent legal advocacy skills grounded in clear communication, creative problem-solving, and organization in collaboration with amazing coworkers to provide excellent services to clients in a way they feel cared for and heard?
We are a Berkeley-based immigration law office with a small, supportive team specializing in family-based immigration, consular processing, removal defense, asylum, U visas, waivers, naturalization, and federal district court litigation. We are determined to find the right fit for our exceptional team. Please apply to work with us if you're excited by what you see here!
We believe team members need to trust one another and hold themselves and their teammates accountable. We welcome each person's feedback and value a balance between owning our caseloads and tasks and working collaboratively. We appreciate and value each team member and each role in our office.
Our team members are problem solvers who use creativity to bring new ideas and find ways to constantly improve our systems and procedures to ensure we are giving our best to clients. We strive to provide an environment where each person has room to continue learning and growing.
We understand that working with clients who have endured trauma and are facing enormous challenges takes an emotional toll. Our team is known to let off steam by, when appropriate, being goofy and interjecting a lot of humor! We also promote identifying ways to not only take good care of ourselves, but of one another. To this end, we hold periodic group trauma trainings with licensed therapists and recently did a workshop to learn more about how perimenopause and menopause impact us in the workplace.
Our largely remote team believes in creating and following proven systems, and we are goal-oriented. We aim to work in a focused manner when working so that we can all have a healthy work-life balance. Attorneys on our team are trusted to create their own schedule within certain parameters as long as they are meeting certain goals.
Summary of who we are looking for:
- Our associate is a bilingual attorney who is fluent in both written and spoken Spanish.
- Our associate is passionate about immigrants' rights and about being part of an equally passionate team.
- Our associate is driven, organized, and can manage their case load impeccably. They love communicating clearly and empathetically with clients, taking the time to get to know each person, making sure they feel heard, and ensuring they understand clients' needs.
- Our associate understands how key the attorney-client partnership is to ensuring clients reach their goals within a hostile and ever-changing immigration legal system.
- Our associate takes the time to formulate a strategic plan at the outset of the case and will constantly be monitoring changes to laws and policies to revamp that plan as needed. Our associate will clearly communicate the strategy to both the client and the rest of the legal team so everyone is on the same page at each step of what can often be a long process.
- Our associate has strong oral and written communication skills, understanding the importance of always focusing on the audience and the objectives. They can communicate effectively with clients, team members, adjudicators, colleagues, and judges alike.
- Our associate is confident and can do the research and work independently, but also knows when to seek a second opinion or collaborate with a trusted colleague to ensure the best course is taken for the client when working on a new or novel issue.
- Our associate understands the value of tasking others on the legal team with clarity and creating a team approach to promote growth and ensure we are working efficiently.
Instructions to Apply:
Please provide the following with your application:
- Your resume
- Cover letter explaining:
- What motivated you to apply for this position
- Why you want to work at Stouffer Law specifically (not just any firm)
- The experience and results you have achieved make you confident you will perform well in this role
Candidates must be prepared to provide the following references upon request:
- A writing sample
- A list of your social media handles
- A total of 4 references including:
- At least one professional reference from a direct supervisor who directly supervised your work
- Personal references (non-family members only), which may include a friend or colleague who has personally worked with you
Compensation- $47,500-$75,000 (20 hours/week) $71,250-97,500 (30 hours/week)
Responsibilities:
Client Focused Tasks:
- Engage with our legal team to share legal strategy on each case so the team can be in alignment with the client's interest, the team's interest in moving clients forward, and the office's interest in making sure clients feel well cared for.
- Use our office's systems, checklists, and flow charts to make sure we consistently do a top-notch job for clients.
- Communicate and convey advice to clients about their options based on current laws and procedures with empathy, using plain language so they fully understand all options and can make the most informed decision for themselves and their family.
- Oversee forms drafted and evidence gathered by the legal team and provide feedback and guidance to create stronger work product and streamlined processes.
- Support the paralegals and legal assistants as they interact with the legal team.
- Confer with other attorneys in the office and other trusted colleagues with professionalism.
- Prepare for and represent clients in Immigration Court as well as before United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and Department of State (DOS).
- Maintain a pinned note (ongoing memorandum) in addition to clear case notes and key information in the dashboard in our office's case management software throughout the case to appropriately apprise team members and the client of the status of the case and several steps planned, so everyone understands and is on the same page.
- Maintain and manage an independent caseload and provide case support to the lead attorney and other attorneys.
- Administrative / Team / Financial Tasks:
- Engage with the team to create a collaborative and supportive culture. This will include contributing and participating in team trainings, team building, and other growth opportunities.
- Track hourly case work in a diligent, descriptive way that clearly describes the actions taken on the case and notes forward movement.
- Meet hourly casework goals and coordinate with team members on their hourly casework goals, and on the status of clients' trust accounts in relation to the timing and nature of work to be completed to ensure the office avoids outstanding balances.
- Marketing and Community Relations Tasks:
- Enjoy finding ways to give back to the community, including volunteer opportunities and speaking engagements that can help provide vital information about immigration to those who need it.
- Feel excited about the possibility of occasionally participating in podcasts, audio recording, videos, or livestreams to help get the word out about our office.
- Engage in different forms of networking on a regular basis to cultivate relationships in the community and among colleagues.
- Engage in social media in a positive and supportive role to the office and to amplify our office's mission and dedication to immigrants' rights and to clients.
Other Duties:
- Create efficiencies through developing and refining the office's systems, including the policies and procedures, examples, templates, scripts, diagrams, workflows, and videos.
- Analyze statistical information to better understand how we can improve our services and the time we spend working on clients' matters.
Qualifications:
Key Skills, Traits, and Requirements:
- You Have:
- A minimum of 8+ years as an attorney in immigration law (willing to consider exceptional candidates who have 8+ years of experience combined between immigration and other areas of law).
- Fluency in Spanish, both written and spoken
- Excellent communication skills – verbal and written
- An excellent understanding of not only the law, but also holds an innate ability to draw out clients' unique experiences and help them tell their compelling story within the framework of the law
- Empathy and are naturally warm
- Impeccable organizational skills and an ability to lead and delegate
- A love of problem-solving and using creativity to innovate and develop new strategies to better serv
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