Staff Attorney - Homeowner Defense Project

The role

The Staff Attorney will provide direct client advocacy through litigation and non-litigation efforts for the Homeowner Defense Project. This role involves intake, community education, and participating in foreclosure-prevention taskforces to assist low-income homeowners.

What you will do

• Direct client advocacy via in-court and non-litigation efforts
• Applying for grants, property tax exemptions, and loss mitigation
• Intake, community education, and community outreach
• Active participation in foreclosure-prevention taskforces and working groups
• Support foreclosure-prevention law and policy objectives through coalition work
• Administrative tasks including timekeeping and file maintenance
• Uploading documents, data reporting, and case closing for grant compliance

Required qualifications

• J.D. from an accredited law school
• Admitted or in the process of being admitted to practice law in the State of New York
• Strong demonstrated background and experience in public interest, litigation, foreclosure defense, housing, or consumer law
• Experience working with diverse low-income communities and familiarity with structural and systemic racism and their intersection with poverty
• Commitment to social justice and working in low-income communities and communities of color to advance equity
• Strong interest in working directly with clients, specifically clients in crisis
• Strong time management and organizational skills
• Superb analytical, oral, and written communication skills

Nice to have

• Strong ties to or understanding of the Staten Island low-income communities
• Fluency or proficiency in Spanish or another language spoken by the communities we serve

Benefits

• Hybrid remote work policy
• Excellent benefits package
• Access to internal Justice Learning Center
• Opportunities to earn free CLEs
• Opportunities to gain experience as a trainer

Before you apply

• Submit a cover letter, resume, and a writing sample
• Only candidates selected for interviews will be contacted

About the company

Legal Services NYC (LSNYC) is the largest civil legal services provider in the country. It fights poverty and seeks racial, social and economic justice for low-income New Yorkers.