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Legal Aid at Work (LAAW) partners with people to help them understand and assert their workplace rights, and advocates for employment laws and systems that empower low-paid workers and marginalized communities.
LAAW has seven core program areas: (1) Disability Rights; (2) Racial Economic Justice; (3) Gender Equity & LGBTQ Rights; (4) Wage Protection; (5) Work & Family; (6) National Origin and Immigrants’ Rights; and (7) Community Legal Services. Through these programs, LAAW:
As a social justice organization, Legal Aid at Work’s mission is rooted in the firm belief that all people deserve respect, dignity, and self-determination at work, at school, and in their communities. Structural and systemic racism—with the oppression of Black and Indigenous people at its core—and other forms of injustice shape the society and the civic, political, and legal systems in which we work and live. Legal Aid at Work is committed to developing and nurturing an organizational culture that will dismantle systems of oppression, uplift people from underrepresented communities, and create a workplace that is truly equitable and inclusive. As such, we strongly encourage candidates from underrepresented communities to apply.
The Wage Protection Program aims to help build a just economy where all workers are empowered to win fair wages and dignified workplaces through legal representation and advocacy.
We believe that building worker power is fundamental to achieving our mission. As lawyers, we strive to ground our legal advocacy in community-led efforts because we know that without the strength and backing of organized and informed workers, legal gains will not last. For this reason, we often work in partnership with worker centers and other community-based organizations. Our commitment to our clients includes not just legal representation but ensuring that they are educated and empowered through the process. We strive to center and prioritize the most marginalized workers in predominately low-wage industries, because an economy that works for them will help all workers. We also aim to bring litigation that has the potential to improve industry practice, by targeting powerful actors within a particular market or common practices that employers use to evade wage-and-hour liability.
Legal Aid at Work seeks a Staff Attorney for our Wage Protection Program with a deep commitment to advancing workers’ rights to assume significant responsibility in impact and enforcement litigation and other advocacy efforts on behalf of low-wage workers.
The Staff Attorney will work within and across teams to further the goals of the Wage Protection Program, with a particular emphasis on developing and litigating wage and hour cases, including, but not limited to, class actions, Private Attorney General Act lawsuits, and other multi-plaintiff cases.
The Staff Attorney is responsible for:
The following list of core competencies and experiences is provided to share insight into the requirements of the role and the general level of experience we seek in candidates. We encourage all qualified candidates and those with relevant or transferable experience to apply, even if you do not bring experience in all of the areas noted below.
Candidates must be active members of the California State Bar, or be willing to take the next California Bar Examination if currently a member of another state bar. LAAW will consider candidates located anywhere in the state of California, but there is a preference for this person to be based in the Bay Area. Legal Aid offers employees the flexibility to work primarily from home, contingent on business needs and professional responsibilities. Strong preference will be given to applicants with personal or professional experience working with impacted communities.
Knowledge of California and federal wage and hour law, employment law, and court and/or administrative procedures;
Legal Aid at Work offers salaries that are competitive in the public interest law community. Benefits include health plans, long-term disability and life insurance, 403(b) retirement plan, and generous paid vacation and holidays. As a unionized organization, Legal Aid at Work believes in the importance of employees organizing to improve their working conditions. This position is included in the bargaining unit represented by ESC Local 20. Salary placement at hire and salary advancement will be in accordance with the negotiated salary scale in the union contract for this position. Attorney salaries are paid depending on years out of law school and range from $90,000 to $172,950. For example, first-year attorneys are paid $90,000; third-year attorneys are paid $95,300; fifth-year attorneys are paid $101,000.
Please email (1) your resume, (2) a cover letter detailing your interest in the position, and (3) three references to:
WPP Staff Attorney Search Committee, Legal Aid at Work
Email: jobs@legalaidatwork.org
Full Time
$141k-188k (estimate)
03/27/2024
05/26/2024
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San Francisco, CA
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