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Brooklyn Legal Services (‘BLS’) seeks a Deputy Director for its Housing Law Unit – Right to Counsel Practice. The Deputy Director will be expected to work collaboratively with and provide leadership for LSNYC’s city-wide housing practice.
Brooklyn Legal Services, part of Legal Services NYC, provides high-quality, innovative representation to address the pressing legal needs of Brooklyn’s diverse low-income population. Legal Services NYC (‘LSNYC’) fights poverty and seeks justice for low-income New Yorkers. LSNYC is the largest civil legal services provider in the country; our staff of almost 600 people in neighborhood-based offices and outreach sites across all five boroughs helps more than 110,000 New Yorkers annually. BLS focuses on the problems that have the greatest impact on our clients
— preserving affordable and decent housing, maintaining income support, redressing abusive lending and consumer practices, promoting family stability and mitigating the effects of domestic violence, and advocating for the disabled.
LSNYC prides itself on its Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) efforts. As a social justice organization, we are committed to fighting for a workplace that is as diverse, equitable, and inclusive as possible for everyone. Our DEIB committee and numerous affinity groups work to foster collegial relationships among staff at all levels and allow staff to explore and advocate for racial justice and anti-oppression growth within our organization and through our legal work. All employees are expected to learn about, seek to understand, and work to realize our DEIB goals. Every supervisor is expected to actively engage in learning and become increasingly skilled in supervision that supports diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. The Deputy Director’s duties will include actively working to advance LSNYC’s Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging goals.
LSNYC provides numerous opportunities for growth and professional development. Our Learning Center provides opportunities to earn free CLE credits and gain experience as a trainer. In recent years we hired The Management Center to teach management skills to our directors and supervisors, and we encourage and support supervisors and directors to attend local and national trainings to build supervision and management skills.
The Housing Law Unit – Right to Counsel practice preserves affordable housing for Brooklyn’s low-income communities through the representation of low-income tenants in eviction proceedings, collaboration with community-based organizations, and affirmative litigation to challenge abusive and discriminatory behaviors that displace low-income families and eliminate affordable housing. Our Unit has partnered closely with the Human Resources Administration (“HRA”) to launch and build a unit to support this ever-expanding Right to Counsel. The core of the team’s work is to provide zealous legal representation to Brooklyn tenants facing eviction in Housing Court and
administrative proceedings through aggressive litigation and creative advocacy. In addition, we preserve housing subsidies and public benefits for our clients through both individual representation and cutting-edge litigation. We also provide advice and community education to tenants throughout Brooklyn at legal clinics and through Know Your Rights trainings.
The Deputy Director will work closely with the Housing Unit Director and Deputy Directors to provide supervision to the Unit’s attorneys and paralegals, strengthen relationships with community partners, address systemic housing issues that perpetuate poverty, and handle administrative and grant responsibilities. The Deputy will be responsible for helping to develop and implement a strategic vision for the Unit’s work and supervising attorneys on a range of litigation including individual and group representation in Housing Court, administrative proceedings, and affirmative litigation in State and Federal Court. Other duties include intake management, onboarding and training new attorneys, community education, and outreach, strengthening partnerships with community groups and elected officials, and policy advocacy.
The Deputy Director will work closely with the Director of the Housing Unit and Deputy Directors in supporting the unit’s existing advocacy as well as overseeing Right to Counsel intake as follows:
updated intake and referral protocols, make case assignments to Staff Attorneys and Law Graduates and otherwise assist in managing the Right to Counsel intake operations of the team;
In addition to the qualifications below, the ideal candidate will be a highly motivated individual with a keen interest in supervising a practice in a community-based law office, and a demonstrated ability to jump-start litigation or community-based campaigns and to collaborate with other staff to see such initiatives through to fruition.
Experience and Qualifications
We seek an attorney admitted to the New York State Bar with:
Health Recommendation
All employees are strongly encouraged to continue to receive and maintain up-to-date COVID vaccinations unless they are unable to for medical or religious reasons.
How to Apply
Applicants should send a cover letter, resume, and two writing samples to bkhiring@lsnyc.org. Please write “Housing RTC Deputy Director” in the subject line of the email. Only candidates selected for interviews will be contacted. No telephone calls, please.
BLS offers an excellent benefits package and a highly competitive public interest salary. Benefits include health, dental, and vision plans; contributions to a 403(b) plan; and generous leave time. Salary is commensurate with experience.
Brooklyn Legal Services is an equal opportunity employer: people of color; women; people with disabilities; gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people; and people over the age of 40 are welcome and encouraged to apply. We are committed to race, gender, and economic justice in our work and within our workplace. Staff members who are not managers are members of the LSSA/NOLSW UAW Local 2320.
Job#38_2024; Posted 3.2024
Salary Range (dependent on years of experience): $115,584 – $183,696
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $115,584.00 - $183,696.00 per year
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Schedule:
Ability to Relocate:
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Brooklyn, NY 11201
Full Time
Business Services
$230k-291k (estimate)
04/11/2024
08/07/2024
legalservicesnyc.org
JAMAICA, NY
100 - 200
1968
DOREEN ODOM
<$5M
Business Services
Legal Services NYC fights poverty and seeks justice for low-income New Yorkers. For 50 years, we have challenged systemic injustice and helped clients meet basic needs for housing, income and economic security, family and immigration stability, education, and health care. LSNYC is the largest civil legal services provider in the country, with deep roots in all of the communities we serve. Our staff of more than 500 people in neighborhood-based offices and outreach sites across all five boroughs helps more than 100,000 New Yorkers annually. LSNYC addresses the underlying causes of our clients p...roblems through all forms of advocacy. We partner with scores of community-based organizations, elected officials, public agencies, pro bono lawyers, and the courts to maximize our effectiveness. Our work fights discrimination and helps to achieve equal opportunity and economic, social, and racial justice for all low-income New Yorkers. Support our work! Donate online at https://lsnyc.secure.nonprofitsoapbox.com/get-involved/giving-to-legal-services-nyc
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