Legal Aid of Western Missouri is in search of an Administrative Assistant to work in the Public Benefits Unit, at our Kansas City, Missouri office. The assistant will provide administrative and secretarial support for the Public Benefits Unit attorneys, paralegals, and supervisor in cases involving Medicaid and unemployment benefit, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program issues, and guardianship and conservatorship matters. This position is re...
Legal Aid of Western Missouri seeks a full-time paralegal in its new Independence office. This position will assist Legal Aid clients with issues relating to public benefits such as food stamps, Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security. This position will also provide general paralegal and front desk support in the Independence office. Responsibilities for this position include, but are not limited to, screen and interview clients. communicating w...
Legal Aid of Western Missouri seeks a full-time attorney for its Joplin, Missouri, office to handle its housing cases. This position primarily assists low-income clients in public housing matters and private landlord-tenant disputes, including evictions, notices to vacate, housing conditions, discrimination, and other rental housing matters. The attorney in this position will represent clients in administrative, judicial, and legislative forums, ...
LEGAL AID OF WESTERN MISSOURI. STAFF ATTORNEY – GENERAL PRACTICE. INDEPENDENCE, MISSOURI. Legal Aid of Western Missouri seeks a full-time general practice attorney to be housed in our new Independence, Missouri location. The attorney will be part of our Warrensburg team, which serves 13 counties in west-central Missouri. The position is litigation-centered with a case load consisting of family law, guardianships, and other substantive areas of la...
LEGAL AID OF WESTERN MISSOURI. DEBT DEFENSE STAFF ATTORNEY. KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI. Legal Aid seeks a full-time staff attorney to represent defendants in debt collection cases through our Debt Relief Project. The attorney will be housed in our Central Office in Kansas City and will primarily represent clients in Associate Circuit Court in Jackson, Clay, and Platte Counties. The attorney will develop and administer an in-person courthouse clinic to...
LEGAL AID OF WESTERN MISSOURI. PARALEGAL – ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT UNIT. KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI. The Economic Development Unit of Legal Aid of Western Missouri is seeking a full-time litigation support paralegal in one of its satellite offices in Kansas City, Missouri. This position supports one project attorney who litigates on behalf of a neighborhood association and community development corporation on targeted community improvement initiatives. G...
