Closing Date: 30th May, 2025
Description:
Organization Description:- Founded in 1956, Legal Services of Northern California (LSNC) provides high quality civil legal assistance
- to people with low income, older adults and persons with disabilities in more than 23 northern California
- counties. LSNC has eight field offices and several special projects, including the Sacramento County office
Responsibilities:
Under the supervision of the Executive Director, as part of a two-person office management team, provide leadership for aggressive, innovative and effective advocacy for low income people in Sacramento County, and throughout northern California, in collaboration with other LSNC offices.
Duties:
- Provide supervision and professional development support to advocates and support staff.
- Engage in high quality legal representation and community engagement on priority issues affecting low-income persons and communities.
- Communicate and engage with client communities, local agencies, the judiciary, and the private bar.
- Organize and manage an effective private bar pro bono program.
- Supervise the advocacy staff, coordinate regular office case reviews, conduct staff meetings, participate in staff hiring, and ensure office morale.
- Assure caseload control and compliance with applicable rules, regulations and funding guidelines for legal services work.
- Participate with other LSNC managers in the management of the overall program, including participation on management committees and task forces.
- Complete priority surveys and work plans.
- Resolve staff, client and public grievances.
- Ensure the financial integrity of the office and develop, administer and report on grants.
Qualifications:
- At least four (4) years substantial legal representation experience; litigation experience or other advocacy
- skills and a desire to participate in all phases of litigation, including discovery, brief writing, editing and oral
- advocacy, and appellate practice. Prior experience in the representation of low-income or under-served
- communities strongly preferred, particularly in the areas of housing, health, public benefits and civil rights.
- Knowledge of and experience with personnel management and budgeting, conflict resolution and legal case
- work supervision is desirable. Prior legal services management experience is highly desirable. J.D. and a
- member of the California Bar, or admitted to the Bar of another state and eligible for admission and willing
- to take the first bar exam after hiring.
