Supervising Attorney
Disability Rights California
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: California • United States
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Salary
💰 $89,435 - $130,958 per year
About the role
- Supervise attorneys and investigators, including workload management, training, and monitoring staff
- Lead a work team with emphasis on assisting the team in developing and implementing strategies to accomplish team goals
- Ensure that all work complies with grant requirements and meets procedural and quality standards, including proper handling of personally identifiable information
- Conduct frequent calls, e.g. weekly, with attorneys and advocates regarding work
- Respond to inquiries and complaints concerning services
- Train attorneys, advocates, clients and others in substantive disability rights law
- Identify areas of development of program staff and assist in coordinating such development.
- Perform outreach and support and monitor supervisee outreach efforts to traditionally underserved communities.
Requirements
- Juris Doctor degree (J.D.) or equivalent, and membership in the California State Bar
- 7 years of experience practicing law; or internal candidates who have worked at DRC for three continuous years and have 6 years of experience practicing law
- Demonstrated commitment – through lived experience and/or employment history – to working with people with disabilities and low-income clients and incorporating race equity and community lawyering principles into their work
- 2 years of experience successfully leading, developing, mentoring, or supervising law clerks, attorneys, or advocates
- Expertise in one or more substantive areas of law related to the position
- 2 years of successfully leading multiple advocacy projects, such as intake/outreach projects, administrative proceedings, writs, or single client lawsuits.
Benefits
- Excellent benefits including 8% 401k Match
- LRAP (Loan Repayment Assistance Program) pays up to $300 per month
- Health (HMO and PPO options)
- Dental, vision, basic life insurance
- Short-term and long-term disability insurance
- Flexible spending accounts (medical, dependent care and commuter)
- Ample vacation, sick/self-care leave
- Eighteen paid holidays (including the last week in December)
- Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) - eligible employer
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
Juris Doctor degreeCalifornia State Bar membershipsubstantive disability rights lawadvocacy projectsadministrative proceedingswritssingle client lawsuits
Soft Skills
leadershipmentoringtrainingworkload managementcommunicationteam developmentcommunity lawyering principlescommitment to diversity