Staff Attorney

About the role

Lakeshore Legal Aid seeks a dedicated lawyer to represent low-income and senior clients through civil legal services. Responsibilities include advocacy in trial courts, appellate courts, and other forums, through litigation, advice, negotiation, drafting, and reviewing legal documents.

Responsibilities

• Represent clients in trial courts, appellate courts, and other forums through litigation, advice, negotiation, drafting, and reviewing legal documents.
• Engage in community lawyering through a racial justice lens.
• Update manuals and resource materials.
• Develop expertise in one or more areas of law, if required.
• Treat clients, co-workers, and others with dignity and respect.
• Train or mentor other staff in areas of experience.
• Maintain currency of legal developments in poverty law.
• Identify substantial poverty problems affecting individual clients or the client communities.
• Communicate and establish contacts with court, community agencies, local and state bar associations, and local client groups as appropriate.
• Participate in impact projects and develop continuing expertise to handle increasingly complex litigation or other projects.

Requirements

• Graduated from an accredited law school.
• Admitted to practice law in the State of Michigan, or an application at the first opportunity for admission by reciprocity, or by taking the first available bar exam.
• Demonstrated interest in the area of poverty law and working with low-income individuals.
• Able to be empathetic and understand the diverse clients of the poverty community.
• Able to deal effectively with all people under difficult circumstances.
• Demonstrable skills in litigation, advocacy, interviewing, and drafting legal documents.
• Understand and comply with the Michigan Rules of Professional Conduct.
• Dependable transportation for travel to intake sites, hearings, meetings and trainings.
• Experience or aptitude working with appropriate office technology, including telephone systems, copiers, word processing, report generation software, internet research, client database, etc.
• Demonstrated ability to plan and organize multiple tasks.
• Ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing.

Qualifications

• Graduated from an accredited law school.
• Admitted to practice law in the State of Michigan, or an application at the first opportunity for admission by reciprocity, or by taking the first available bar exam.
• Demonstrated interest in the area of poverty law and working with low-income individuals.
• Able to be empathetic and understand the diverse clients of the poverty community.
• Able to deal effectively with all people under difficult circumstances.
• Demonstrable skills in litigation, advocacy, interviewing, and drafting legal documents.
• Understand and comply with the Michigan Rules of Professional Conduct.
• Dependable transportation for travel to intake sites, hearings, meetings and trainings.
• Experience or aptitude working with appropriate office technology, including telephone systems, copiers, word processing, report generation software, internet research, client database, etc.
• Demonstrated ability to plan and organize multiple tasks.
• Ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing.

Skills

• Legal representation in trial courts, appellate courts and other forums.
• Community lawyering through a racial justice lens.
• Updating manuals and resource materials.
• Developing expertise in one or more areas of law.
• Treating clients, co-workers, and others with dignity and respect.
• Training or mentoring other staff.
• Maintaining currency of legal developments in poverty law.
• Identifying substantial poverty problems affecting individual clients or the client communities.
• Communicating and establishing contacts with court, community agencies, local and state bar associations, and local client groups.
• Participating in impact projects and developing continuing expertise to handle increasingly complex litigation or other projects.

Benefits

• Industry leading employer-sponsored healthcare package.
• Generous paid time off.
• Paid holidays.
• Hybrid remote work schedule.

Pay

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Schedule

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Benefits

• Industry leading employer-sponsored healthcare package.
• Generous paid time off.
• Paid holidays.
• Hybrid remote work schedule.