Senior Staff Attorney

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $145k - $170k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💼 Attorney / Lawyer

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Positively Partners

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11 - 50 employees

🌍 Social Impact

👥 HR Tech

🤝 Non-profit

Social Impact • HR Tech • Non-profit

Positively Partners is a social enterprise dedicated to fostering equity and inclusion within workplaces, particularly focusing on dismantling systemic barriers for marginalized communities. The company collaborates with nonprofits and socially-minded organizations to connect diverse candidates with career opportunities in the social impact sector. Positively Partners' team comprises psychology practitioners, HR professionals, and system design experts who work together to create mission-driven and productive work environments. The company's mission is to align employees' values and strengths with their roles to enhance organizational impact and employee engagement.

📋 Description

• Reporting to the Legal Director, and working in collaboration with the legal team, the Senior Staff Attorney will supervise multiple attorneys — both formally and through leading litigation teams. • Handle an active workload of litigation to advance GLAD Law's organizational priorities, including precedent-setting cases against the federal government. • May also assist on GLAD Law's ongoing policy work. • Help create and lead strategies using legislation, litigation, policy, and public education to advance justice on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, and HIV status, and to exemplify commitment to racial justice. • Contribute to the legal department's decision-making strategy, help identify and assess matters for impact litigation, and lead cases in state and federal court and other disputes. • Lead litigation teams, including being involved in case and client development, legal research, pleadings and brief drafting, discovery and motion practice, hearings, trials, and appeals. • Lead and support amicus curiae efforts through brief writing and coordination. • Supervise several staff attorneys and delegate work to more junior staff as appropriate, including policy work. • Assist, as appropriate, on legislative or other policy matters that further GLAD Law's strategic priorities. • Provide technical expertise and support to private litigators and organizations facing complex LGBTQ issues in state and federal courts and government agencies. • Provide support for GLAD Law Answers, GLAD Law's legal information and referral service, including by working up legal intakes and providing individual support or legal referrals, where appropriate, to people who seek legal help. • Serve on internal working groups and committees as may be needed.

🎯 Requirements

• J.D. degree and admission to practice law in at least one state in the United States. • Minimum of 10 years of litigation experience, including motion practice, trial practice and/or appeals • Proven ability to lead complex litigation. • Candidates whose litigation experience is readily transferable including deep experience in constitutional, civil rights, or administrative law litigation, even if not focused specifically on LGBTQ+ issues are strongly encouraged to apply. • Demonstrated commitment to working on LGBTQ+, HIV, or related social justice issues that impact the LGBTQ+ community, including racial justice. • Familiarity with the current legal landscape affecting these communities. • Knowledge of LGBTQ+ law and/or policy, anti-discrimination, health care, education, family, administrative, and/or constitutional law. • Ability to conduct complex legal research; to draft briefs, memos, and advocacy materials to the highest standard; and to present arguments clearly in court, legislative, or public settings. • Experience supervising, mentoring, or managing attorneys or other legal staff, including responsibility for reviewing work product and supporting professional development. • Strong interpersonal and communication skills including in the context of client interactions and client development, all aspects of litigation, lobbying or advocacy with government officials, and public persuasion. • Commitment to a culture of collaboration and support: being a thoughtful colleague and approaching conversations with grace and an assumption of good intentions. • Actively engages in continuing legal education, seeks feedback, and has shown progression in responsibility or expertise over the course of their career. • Experience collaborating on cross-functional projects, both internally and externally with diverse stakeholders. • Independence, as well as the ability to work as part of an integrated team.

🏖️ Benefits

• health insurance • 401K • opportunities for professional growth