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Managing Attorney - Self Help Centers

Description: 

The Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles (LAFLA) is the frontline law firm for low-income people in Los Angeles and is currently accepting applications for the positon of Managing Attorney for the Self-Help Legal Access Centers. LAFLA seeks to achieve equal justice for poor and low-income people in greater Los Angeles. We change lives through direct representation, systems change, and community education. The Organization: Founded in 1929, LAFLA has approximately 123 employees. LAFLA has an operating budget of more than $16 million and operates five neighborhood offices and several off-site locations. For more information, please visit www.lafla.org. The Self-Help Legal Access Centers are court-based walk-in clinics created to help people represent themselves. The Centers offer workshops, legal forms and how to guides, reviews of legal forms and pleadings and general information to self-represented ligitants. The Centers do not provide individual legal advice or representation. Instead, staff educate litigants about the judicial process and assist litigants in completing legal forms.

EXAMPLES OF DUTIES:
• Supervise attorneys and other staff members to ensure the Centers remain a national model for service delivery;
• Ensure adequate staffing coverage for the four Self-Help Centers to allow them to serve self-represented litigants;
• Planning, coordination and oversight of staff meetings;
• Participation on court and statewide committees that deal with self-help delivery models;
• Organize and implement educational and form completion workshops for self-represented persons in cases involving landlord tenant law, family law and civil restraining orders;
• Coordinate the drafting and updating of self-help materials to ensure accuracy and clarity;
• Work closely and in coordination with court personnel, JusticeCorps staff, community partners, Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles, and staff of other Self-Help Centers;
• In conjunction with the LAFLA Pro Bono Director recruit, train and supervise volunteer attorneys, law students, JusticeCorps students, and community volunteers;
• Assist LAFLA’s Development staff with grant writing and reports;
• Responsible for ensuring that the Centers meet their grant deliverables and goals; and
• Developing efficient systems and protocols and ensuring that these policies are implemented consistently throughout all the Self-Help Centers.
 

Requirements: 

QUALIFICATIONS:

  • Active membership in the California State Bar;
  • Minimum (5) years experience in the practice of law, including demonstrated experience and competence in advocacy, civil litigation and other lawyering skills;
  • Demonstrated practical experience with court forms and filing procedures;
  • Demonstrated knowledge of landlord tenant and/or family law required;
  • Ability to deal with the public tactfully and effectively; 
  • Ability to work cooperatively and effectively with staff at all levels of the Foundation;
  • Ability to plan and execute workplans and manage grants;
  • Excellent organizational and cross-cultural communication skills;
  • Demonstrated ability to coordinate and marshal staff located in multiple locations;
  • Ability to work cooperatively and partner with court judicial officers and administration, local bar associations, law schools, law libraries and other legal services program;
  • Ability to travel to the four Self-Help Centers located in Los Angeles County; and
  • Willingness to work beyond a minimum 7.0 hour workday, including evening and weekend meetings and events, and workweeks in excess of 35 hours when caseload or other obligations so necessitate.
To Apply: 

Please submit a cover letter and resume online to Lisa Morris, Director of Human Resources, at jobs@lafla.org. Include “Managing Attorney – Self-Help” in the subject line.

Information

Submission Deadline: 
July 19, 2018
Organization Information: 
Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles
United States