Staff Attorney

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🕒 July 27

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $93.5k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🧑‍💼 Attorney / Lawyer

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Immigrant Legal Resource Center

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 1979

🤝 Non-profit

⚖️ Legal

📚 Education

Non-profit • Legal • Education

Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC) is a nonprofit organization that provides legal education, resources, advocacy, and technical assistance to immigrants, community organizations, and legal practitioners. Founded in 1979, ILRC offers practice advisories, legal listservs, trainings, seminars, publications, and policy advocacy across a wide range of immigration-related areas including asylum, citizenship and naturalization, DACA, detention, family-based immigration, enforcement, public charge, U visas/T visas/VAWA, and others. ILRC runs projects and networks such as the New Americans Campaign, Immigrant Justice Network, Regional Network Hubs for Immigrant Families, and United Coalition for Immigrant Services, and produces research, practice guides, and policy analyses to support legal services and immigrant communities.

📋 Description

• Conduct in-person and/or webinar trainings on immigration law and practice for attorneys and accredited representatives • Provide training to community members in English and Spanish on immigration law topics, including Know Your Rights and Public Charge • Provide legal review and advice at immigration workshops • Participate in regional collaboratives and task forces to represent the ILRC and provide information on immigrant rights, immigration law, and policy updates • Travel throughout the San Joaquin Valley, California, and occasionally the United States for trainings, meetings, and events • Contribute to ILRC legal projects, including writing, editing, and updating legal manuals and publications • Conduct case rounds and provide case-specific technical assistance to nonprofit agency staff, private practice attorneys, and pro bono attorneys • Present accessible information in English and Spanish on complex legal topics to media, community members, and practitioners • Report to a Directing Attorney

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of experience representing clients in general immigration law, including representation before USCIS, EOIR, and the BIA • Broad knowledge of immigration law, including grounds of inadmissibility and deportability and eligibility for relief • Strong foundation in removal defense practice, federal court litigation, and legal responses to immigration enforcement • Ability to lead meetings and communicate with attorneys, community members, advocates, policymakers, funders, and others • Willingness to work closely with colleagues, take direction and editing, and incorporate feedback • Excellent writing, editing, and legal analysis skills • Excellent training and presentation skills • Strong time management skills and ability to meet deadlines • Organized, flexible, reliable, dependable, able to work independently, and able to handle several projects simultaneously • Willingness to participate in team-based efforts and a collaborative decision-making environment • Current bar membership in good standing for any U.S. state or the District of Columbia; California preferred • Demonstrated proficiency in Spanish, including strong speaking and writing skills

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance • Employee Assistance Program (EAP) sessions • Flexible spending account for medical and dependent care • Vacation leave • Sick leave • Retirement plan contribution upon fulfillment of eligibility • Annual professional development stipend of $2,500 • Annual wellness stipend of $2,500 from 2024–2027 • 8-week sabbatical after five years of service • 12-week sabbatical after ten years of service

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