Description:
About the Job:A Public Charity Located in Atlanta, GA seeks a Staff Attorney to work in its Grady Medical Legal Partnership.
Our non-profit law firm represents low-income people in a variety of civil legal matters, including family, housing, consumer, public benefits, education, and health law. The Grady MLP is a community-based, medical-legal partnership between Atlanta Legal Aid and the Grady Health System, a level 1 trauma center in downtown Atlanta, Georgia. The Grady MLP aims to improve the health and well-being of underserved Georgians by coordinating services to address legal, social, and economic conditions threatening their health. The MLP is currently staffed by one part-time staff attorney and one paralegal who report to the managing attorney of the Decatur office. Work is performed at Grady Hospital in downtown Atlanta and in the Decatur office. In the future, the Grady MLP may become part of the Health Law Unit of Atlanta Legal Aid, which has an interim managing attorney, a staff attorney, and two support staff. The Grady MLP represents clients in a variety of civil law problems, including public benefits and health insurance, disability-related issues, poor housing conditions, and family law matters. The MLP also coordinates with and trains doctors, social workers, and other health care professionals; recruits and trains volunteer attorneys; works with students in law, medicine, social work, public health, and bioethics; and participates in task forces and committees of other service providers.
The Staff Attorney oversees and performs the work of the Grady MLP, collaborating with medical providers to identify patients in need of civil legal aid and provides direct legal services to those patients. The Staff Attorney completes client intake and provides referrals, advice, brief service, or representation in a variety of civil legal matters affecting clients' health including public benefits, health insurance, access to appropriate support services, disability rights, poor housing conditions, loss of housing, end of life planning, family law, and consumer law. The Staff Attorney also performs regular outreach and education for patients and medical providers.
Qualifications:
- Active member in good standing in the State Bar of Georgia.
- Minimum of three years of relevant legal experience.
- Applicants should have courtroom/litigation experience or a desire to develop those skills.
- Strong work ethic and adaptability.
- Excellent legal writing and oral advocacy skills.
- Excellent interpersonal, communication, listening, and organizational skills.
- Ability to balance compassion and pragmatism.
- Demonstrated ability to work independently and in a collaborative, hybrid team model, with an appreciation for diversity.
- Eager to learn and open to feedback.
- Demonstrated commitment to public service, participation in law school clinics or trial advocacy courses, familiarity with poverty law, and previous work with low-income people are strongly preferred.
- Proficiency in languages other than English is highly valued.