Part-Time Staff Attorney, Veterans

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🐊 Florida – Remote

🐊 Florida – Remote

⏱ Part Time

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🧑‍💼 Attorney / Lawyer

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Bay Area Legal Services

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51 - 200 employees

⚖️ Legal

🤝 Non-profit

🌍 Social Impact

Legal • Non-profit • Social Impact

Bay Area Legal Services is a nonprofit, public interest law firm dedicated to providing free civil legal services to qualified low-income residents and nonprofit organizations in the Tampa Bay area. With a strong commitment to access to justice, the firm aims to support the most vulnerable members of the community, having assisted over 25,000 individuals, families, and community groups in the past year.

📋 Description

• Deliver high-quality legal advice, counseling, and brief services as a licensed attorney • Represent veterans, low-income clients, and other vulnerable client populations with limited access to legal services • Process legal services requests and evaluate the complexity of clients’ legal problems • Assess income eligibility and confirm applicant eligibility determinations • Make appropriate legal and social services referrals for ineligible applicants and clients • Recommend exceptions to financial guidelines to the supervisor when appropriate • Provide legal advice, research, brief services, confirming letters, and self-help materials • Review documents including durable and other powers of attorney and letters of guardianship • Determine whether extended legal services may be needed and process referrals within Bay Area Legal Services and to outside legal referral partners • Maintain accurate client records using Bay Area’s legal case management system • Assist in developing and updating legal advice and brief services letters, legal instructional materials, and other written materials • Support the overall operation of the Veterans Legal Helpline

🎯 Requirements

• Admission to the Florida Bar and in good standing • At least four years of experience as a staff attorney or equivalent practice experience • Excellent communication skills • Ability to work closely and cooperatively with other team members • Ability to interview clients to determine essential facts regarding the nature and severity of legal problems • Ability to accept major responsibility and work effectively in an independent but closely supervised environment • Willingness to undertake major management tasks • Experience in general legal practice preferred • Legal services experience preferred • Experience and/or ability to supervise and work closely with others • Sympathetic understanding of social, economic, and legal problems of individuals with limited access to legal services • U.S. Veteran preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Part-time schedule of up to 29 hours • Remote work • Work-life balance