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Staff Attorney, Senior Staff Attorney, or Senior Counsel, Immigrants' Rights Project
New York, New York, United States; San Francisco, California, United States. Posted 3 months ago
The role
The Staff Attorney, Senior Staff Attorney, or Senior Counsel will conduct impact litigation and advocacy to advance and enforce immigrants' rights. This role involves litigating in federal and potentially state courts and handling a substantial caseload.
What you will do
- Litigating in federal and potentially state courts
- Handling a substantial caseload in federal court
- Conducting legal research and writing legal memoranda
- Organizing and participating in multi-organization rapid responses
- Fact-gathering through interviews and investigations
- Analyzing legislation for potential litigation
- Drafting pleadings and briefs, engaging in discovery and motion practice, and conducting evidentiary hearings and oral arguments
- Providing technical assistance and expert legal advice to local ACLU affiliates and others
- Conducting policy advocacy on immigrants' rights
- Developing new cases and non-litigation advocacy projects
Required qualifications
- J.D. degree
- Active Bar membership in NY or CA
- Minimum of two years complex civil litigation experience in federal courts
- Ability to work independently and within a team
- Excellent legal research and writing skills
- Ability to perform complex legal analytical work
- Ability to write and speak clearly and persuasively
- Self-motivation and diligence
- Ability to meet strict deadlines while under pressure
- Ability to travel frequently, on short notice, and for extended periods
Nice to have
- Fluency in a language commonly spoken by immigrants in the U.S.
- Demonstrated experience working in immigrant community settings
- Experience working with reporters and the media
Benefits
- Generous paid time-off policy
- Comprehensive healthcare benefits including medical, dental and vision coverage
- Parental leave
- Gender affirming care & fertility treatment
- 401k plan and employer match
- Annual professional development funds
- Internal professional development programs and workshops
About the company
The ACLU has worked for over 100 years to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution and laws of the United States. The Immigrants' Rights Project is part of the Legal Department of the national ACLU.