Staff Attorney - LGBTQ & HIV Advocacy Unit

About the role

Brooklyn Legal Services seeks a full-time staff attorney for our LGBTQ+ & HIV Advocacy Project. The position is based in Brooklyn and involves providing comprehensive legal services to people living with HIV/AIDS and the LGBTQ community.

Project Description

The LGBTQ+ & HIV Advocacy Project is a general practice unit that offers representation in a wide range of civil legal issues, including discrimination in housing, healthcare, employment, education, and other public accommodations; appeals of wrongful denials in public assistance, social security, health insurance, and other benefits; eviction prevention; obtaining legal name and gender marker changes; and advance directives (wills, living wills, powers of attorney, etc.). The Project also files affirmative litigation challenging discrimination and other systemic abuses faced by the LGBTQ and HIV communities.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Responsible for litigation, advocacy, community outreach, and education throughout Brooklyn and sometimes in other boroughs when collaborating with our community partners.
• Significant community outreach component, including doing client intake at regular outreach clinics, sometimes after-hours; establishing relationships with community-based organizations and governmental entities that serve PLWHA and LGBTQ populations, including attending community-centered meetings and events after-hours and on weekends.
• Represents clients in several courts and administrative fora, primarily in Brooklyn housing court, New York State Supreme Court, federal courts, and before the New York State Division of Human Rights and the New York City Commission on Human Rights.
• Projects staff attorneys regularly make home and hospital visits to meet with clients.

Required Qualifications and Skills

• Licensed to practice law in New York with a minimum of four (4) years of legal experience;
• Substantial knowledge regarding HASA benefits;
• Experience litigating cases under the New York City Human Rights Law;
• Substantial civil litigation experience as lead or sole counsel, including conducting and managing discovery;
• Excellent legal research, analysis, writing, and public speaking skills;
• Experience working respectfully and effectively with BIPOC transgender, queer, and nonbinary people, people living with HIV/AIDS or other disabilities, and low-income communities;
• Experience providing direct legal services through a trauma-informed, client-centered approach;
• The ability to think creatively and strategically to advance clients' interests by balancing litigation goals with individual needs, using litigation, advocacy, and alternative dispute resolution as appropriate;
• Possession of a growth mindset, humility, a keen understanding of power and privilege, and a willingness to accept input and feedback, especially from clients;
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