Description:
s a staff attorney, you'll spend 80% of your time helping homeless folks resolve legal issues that affect their ability to be stability housed. You'll conduct a comprehensive legal screening ("check-up") and handle the traffic, civil, and misdemeanors; landlord-tenant issues; child support and divorce; and debt relief issues that you identify. The remaining 20% of the time you will work on a poverty-related legal reform project.Responsibilities:
- Give your clients white glove, holistic legal services
- Be responsive to their case managers at partner organizations
- Craft and self-direct your legal reform project
- Pitch in whenever and wherever you needed
Qualifications:
- Have a JD, be able to practice law in Michigan
- Have 1+ years of legal aid or pro bono experience (clinic counts)
- Be able to teach yourself (and then us, clients) new areas of law
- Be able to work multiple types of cases, a jack of all trades