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About Our Organization:
Manhattan Legal Services is seeking a staff attorney to join our HIV/LGBTQ Advocacy Unit. The HIV/LGBTQ Advocacy Unit provides comprehensive civil legal services to people living with HIV and to low-income LGBTQ New Yorkers. The Unit provides representation in a broad range of civil legal issues.
Manhattan Legal Services is part of Legal Services NYC (LSNYC), the largest provider of free civil legal services for low-income people in the country. The Manhattan office is dedicated to providing high-quality legal services in the areas of housing, family law, public benefits, employment, immigration, consumer, education, and disability rights. The Manhattan program has designated units serving particularly vulnerable populations including domestic violence survivors, people living with HIV, and people identifying as LGBTQ. We work in close collaboration with low-income communities in NYC.
The Role:
The staff attorney will be responsible for litigation, advocacy, community outreach, and education throughout Manhattan and sometimes in other boroughs when collaborating with our community partners. The attorney will focus on litigating issues that particularly impact queer and trans-New Yorkers and PLWHA, including discrimination in housing, employment, and in public accommodations. The attorney will also contribute to developing a practice to support TGNC folks who are denied healthcare coverage for gender-affirming care. There is a community outreach component to the work, including doing client intake at regular outreach clinics, sometimes after-hours; establishing relationships with community-based organizations that serve PLWHA and LGBTQ populations, including attending community-centered meetings and events after-hours and on weekends; and representing clients in a number of courts and administrative fora.
Required Qualifications and Skills
Preferred Qualifications and Skills
How to Apply
Interested applicants should send a cover letter, resume, two writing samples, and references by email to jobpostingsmls@lsnyc.org. The e-mail should include “MLS HIV/LGBTQ Staff Attorney” in the subject line. Cover letters must discuss particularized interest in working with the PLWHA and LGBTQ communities.
Salary and benefits are determined by the LSNYC Collective Bargaining Agreement.
Only candidates selected for interviews will be contacted. No telephone calls.
Manhattan Legal Services is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. People of color, women, people with disabilities, gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender persons and persons over 40 are welcome and encouraged to apply.
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.
Job#35_2024; Posted 3.2024
Salary Range (Based on years of experience):
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $74,881.00 - $135,637.00 per year
Benefits:
Schedule:
Ability to Relocate:
Work Location: Hybrid remote in New York, NY 10027
Full Time
Business Services
$178k-223k (estimate)
04/07/2024
08/03/2024
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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