Description:
The Opportunity:A Non-profit Organization Management Company is hiring a Senior Staff Attorney (with a minimum of seven years' experience) or Staff Attorney (with a minimum of five years' experience) to work in ALC's Workers' Rights Program to advocate for low-income immigrant workers. Following ALC's multi-pronged approach, the Senior Staff or Staff Attorney's work will include handling direct service cases on a wide range of workplace issues, including wage and hour, race and national origin discrimination, retaliation, health and safety, and unemployment insurance benefit appeals; providing legal support for worker center partners to promote and support workplace organizing and worker-led campaigns; working on related impact litigation that grows out of our direct service or community work; and assisting with community outreach and education about workplace rights. Senior Staff Attorneys are expected to develop and lead direct service and impact litigation cases, mission-aligned policy initiatives and/or other advocacy projects for low-income workers. Both positions report to the Workers' Rights Program Manager.
Responsibilities:
Day-to-day activities include the following:
- Manage direct service caseload representing low-wage workers and provide high-quality legal representation to clients
- Provide legal support for worker-led and/or worker-center-supported campaigns
- Build, work in, and maintain strategic community partnerships with grassroots organizations to address immigrant workers' rights issues collaboratively
- Identify systemic problems through direct services work and participate in resulting litigation and advocacy efforts to advance pro-worker agenda on local, state, or federal levels
- Develop and litigate impact cases, including class actions, in state and federal court
- Participate in community education and outreach efforts
- Collaborate with Communications staff to develop stories with ALC clients and their communities and execute narrative-shifting strategies
- Supervise community advocates, paralegals, law clerks, and other volunteers on legal cases
- B.A./B.S. and J.D. degrees. California bar membership required
- Demonstrated commitment to advancing the rights of low-income, people of color, immigrant, or worker communities
- Substantive legal experience in labor and employment law
- Experience in providing legal services and/or conducting state/federal court litigation; a minimum of five (5) years of experience for Staff Attorney and a minimum of seven (7) years of experience for Senior Staff Attorney.
- Excellent research, analytical, written, and oral communication skills
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple cases and projects in a timely manner
- Highly motivated self-starter
- Demonstrated leadership and ability to work independently and in collaboration with other attorneys, advocates, and community-based organizations
- Bilingual skills are a plus but not required
