Staff Attorney

LASP Staff Attorney – Norristown/Montgomery County, PA (SSTR08092021)

SUMMARY Legal Aid of Southeastern PA (LASP) seeks an attorney to provide civil legal services in its Norristown Office in Montgomery County. LASP serves low-income individuals and families in Bucks, Chester, Delaware and Montgomery counties. This is a full-time position that will focus on representing parents in Children and Youth cases involving dependency and termination of parental rights, helping clients obtain or maintain public benefits like Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Medicaid and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), handling utility law issues and elder law matters like powers of attorney and advanced health care directives and representing clients facing a loss of public housing. The attorney also may address issues regarding consumer law and bankruptcy, employment, expungements, family law, protection from domestic violence, and other cases as assigned. The attorney will receive a salary commensurate with experience and LASP’s personnel policy.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following:

1. Interviewing clients, assisting in determining eligibility for services, and ascertaining and investigating facts;
2. Conducting legal research and interpreting statutes, case law, regulations, and other sources of law;
3. Providing advice and counsel to clients;
4. Preparing legal documents, including but not necessarily limited to: briefs, pleadings, motions, notices, correspondence, memoranda, discovery and documents responsive to discovery requests;
5. Developing strategy and arguments for presentation of cases and assisting in preparation of witnesses for hearings and trials;
6. Representing clients in trial and appellate courts and before quasi-judicial or administrative agencies;
7. Reviewing decisions and consulting with management team to determine merit of potential appeals;
8. Participating in external professional and community organizations relevant to casework;
9. Conducting clinics, community education, and workshops;
10. Becoming engaged in LASP team efforts to achieve office and program goals, including participation in program-wide affinity groups and task forces;
11. Developing knowledge of community referral resources and assessing community and client needs;
12. Enhancing skills and substantive knowledge through training, CLE, and other educational opportunities;
13. Abiding by all applicable professional standards of ethics and practice;
14. Completing required administrative tasks including entering of notes and timekeeping in LASP case management software, and maintaining of physical files;
15. Ensuring that requirements of grants and contracts which may provide funding for the position are followed, and assisting with grant reports;
16. Performing other duties and responsibilities as may be assigned.

SUPERVISOR: Norristown Office Managing Attorney.

LASP is an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate in the recruitment, selection, or advancement of employees on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, age (40 or older), disability, genetic information or on any other basis prohibited by law.