Staff Attorney (Intake & Strategic Intervention)

Job Description

Legal Assistance the Elderly (LAE) is seeking a Staff Attorney Intake to join the Intake and Strategic Intervention team. LAE provides free legal advice and representation to San Francisco’s seniors and adults with disabilities, focusing on eviction defense, income support, health law, financial and physical elder abuse prevention, debt collection defense, foreclosure prevention, end-of-life planning, and conservatorship defense.

Minimum Qualifications

• Member State Bar of California
• Strong written, verbal and interviewing skills
• Patient, flexible and kind
• Works well in a team

Desirable Qualifications

• Bilingual in English and Spanish, Cantonese and/or Mandarin
• Knowledge of landlord-tenant law, including rent control, housing subsidies, habitability, reasonable accommodations, and housing discrimination
• Experience with administrative hearings or advocacy before administrative agencies
• Experience working with elderly, disabled, or homeless individuals or those experiencing a crisis
• Experience working in a non-profit legal service organization or other non-profit

Duties & Responsibilities

• Conduct intake interviews with new clients, including home and hospital visits, when necessary
• Provide legal advice to tenants on housing matters
• Provide brief services, such as writing estoppel letters, requests for reasonable accommodations, and requests for repairs
• Represent clients at administrative hearings, including before the San Francisco Rent Board (unlawful rent increases), the San Francisco Housing Authority (subsidy terminations), and the California Civil Rights Department (housing discrimination)
• Work collaboratively with the team's supervisor, paralegal/client advocates, and reception staff to ensure clients are efficiently connected to the right services
• Provide legal support to Client Advocates and Paralegals
• Maintain accurate computerized client files and other documentation and provide project statistics to other staff as requested
• Provide in-office support to teammates responding to client emergencies and agency inquiries

Supervised By

Supervising Intake Attorney

Working Conditions

• Requires working with individuals during moments of extreme stress and instability
• Requires the provision of culturally sensitive and empathetic services
• Sometimes requires evening and weekend work
• This is an in-office position

Compensation

• Estimated annual salary range starts at $88,000-$98,000 (placement in the range determined by union scale primarily based on years of related experience)
• Benefits package includes 100% employer-covered medical, dental, and life insurance for employees and dependent children and up to 75% for spouses; LAE student debt reimbursement program; employer-paid CA Bar license and/or social work license fees; and 403(b) retirement plan with annual LAE contribution.
• LAE has a generous paid leave policy which includes sick leave, parental leave, compensation time, 20 holidays each year, and vacation (starting at 17 days and increasing after three years with additional years of employment).

Application

To apply, please go to https://laesf.org/ways-to-give/join-our-team/ and click the job title to "Apply for this Job".