Description:
Job Description:LegalHealth, a division of the New York Legal Assistance Group (NYLAG), has an immediate opening for a Supervising Immigration Attorney to join one of the longest standing and the largest Medical-Legal Partnership (MLP) in the country.
LegalHealth partners with a diverse array of medical professionals in 38 hospitals throughout New York to address the health harming legal needs of low-income people with serious health problems. LegalHealth complements health care with legal care – providing free legal services in medical facilities and training healthcare professionals to understand both the legal issues their patients may encounter and the relationship between health and legal advocacy. Using a holistic approach to address Social Drivers of Health, LegalHealth attorneys practice as generalists, representing clients on a myriad of legal matters that are often connected to a diagnosis or chronic health condition. LegalHealth plays a leadership role in the expanding MLP movement, helping others to start or sustain their own MLPs. This position reports to the unit director.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Responsible for overseeing a small group of staff attorneys and paralegals whose main duties are staffing onsite legal clinics at hospitals in a wide range of immigration legal issues including family-based immigration, adjustment of status, naturalization, U/T Visas, VAWA-based relief, TPS, DACA, asylum, SIJS, removal defense (limited basis), and related employment authorization documents.
- Assist noncitizens in securing NYS Medicaid and other benefits.
- Handle requests for Medical Deferred Actions for critically ill clients.
- Responsible for providing supervision of casework, including developing legal strategies and setting case priorities; training and ongoing professional development of staff; carrying a small caseload; coordinating schedules; managing grants to ensure that program goals and data reporting requirements are met; working with a variety of third-party stakeholders, including staff at hospital sites and government agencies.
- The supervising attorney will be part of the LegalHealth Management Team and involved in programmatic issues, development of division protocols and policies and serving on substantive internal law committees.
Qualifications:
- A minimum of 6 years immigration law experience
- Demonstrated commitment to public interest law and services to low-income, disabled, and/or disadvantaged populations.
- Prior supervisory experience preferred
- Excellent leadership, organizational, analytical, communication and writing skills
- Spanish language proficiency is a plus
- Must be an attorney admitted to practice law in New York State.
