Senior Directing Attorney

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🏄 California, Colorado, +13 more states – Remote

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💵 $151.5k - $179.4k / year

⏰ Full Time

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National Center for Youth Law

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 1971

⚖️ Legal

💼 Consulting

🤝 Non-profit

Legal • Consulting • Non-profit

National Center for Youth Law is a nonprofit legal advocacy organization that centers children—particularly those marginalized by systems—in impact litigation, policy advocacy, research, and collaboration to transform public systems affecting education, foster care, health, immigration, and youth justice. NCYL pursues legal challenges, policy reforms, partnerships, and community engagement to defend rights, improve services, and advance equitable outcomes for youth and families nationwide.

📋 Description

• Develop litigation strategy aligned with NCYL’s mission and strategic plan • Generate new litigation opportunities challenging emerging harms to children and youth • Lead complex litigation across multiple jurisdictions, including investigations, legal research, client engagement, pleadings, motions, discovery, expert work, negotiations, trials, appeals, and media work • Lead remedy and settlement implementation, including tracking compliance and communicating with clients and monitors • Manage case budgets, litigation costs, and fee recovery • Manage relationships with external litigation partners, co-counsel, and pro bono counsel • Represent NCYL’s litigation at national conferences and with media outlets • Support strategic communications advancing NCYL’s goals • Participate in fundraising and development efforts • Supervise directing attorneys, senior attorneys, staff attorneys, paralegals, fellows, and law clerks • Report to the co-directors of litigation • Assist with other duties as assigned

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum of a degree in law (JD) • Member in good standing of the bar of at least one state • Minimum of 16 years of relevant experience since law school graduation • Demonstrated success leading relevant impact litigation from inception to reform implementation • Expertise in impact litigation involving children’s civil rights and public systems affecting children and youth • Demonstrated ability to apply legal knowledge to complex situations and achieve systemic reform • Strong leadership, organizational, and project management skills • Experience supervising, leading, and mentoring staff • Demonstrated understanding of structural racism and bias in public systems • Deep subject matter expertise in at least one NCYL issue area • Demonstrated generation and leadership of complex civil litigation on behalf of youth • Experience building rapport and respect with diverse youth and their families • Excellent research, writing, analytical, and creative problem-solving skills • Strong, clear, and persuasive oral communication skills • Ability to work independently and collaboratively • Ability to coordinate litigation development with other advocacy strategies • Ability to manage, deepen, and broaden relationships with external partners • Ability to develop new legal theories or extend existing precedent • Strong commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion • Commitment to NCYL’s mission and goals • Fluency in English required; oral and written fluency in another language is preferred • Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer • Some travel required • Submission of a cover letter, resume, and litigation-based writing sample

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • Life insurance • Generous vacation benefits • Generous sick benefits • Flexible spending account • Commuter benefits • Employer contribution to a retirement plan • Short-term disability insurance • Long-term disability insurance • Fully remote work arrangement • Equal employment opportunities • At-will employment contingent upon continued receipt of funding