Legal Services NYC
Supervising Attorney, LGBTQ+ Advocacy Project & Medical-Legal Partnership
Legal Services NYC, Bronx, NY
Legal Services NYC (LSNYC) fights poverty and seeks racial, social and economic justice for low-income New Yorkers. For over 50 years, we have challenged systemic injustices that trap people in poverty and provided legal services that help our 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; our staff of more than 600 people in neighborhood-based offices and outreach sites across all five boroughs helps hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers annually. We partner with scores of community-based and client-run organizations, elected officials, public agencies, pro bono lawyers, and the courts to maximize our effectiveness. Our work fights discrimination and helps to achieve equity for all low-income New Yorkers.
LSNYC employees have numerous opportunities for growth and professional development, including access to our internal Justice Learning Center, which provides opportunities to earn free CLEs and gain experience as a trainer. Further, LSNYC prides itself on its Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) efforts and aims to create a work environment where everyone can bring their full selves to the work.
We are seeking an experienced attorney to join our Public Benefits Unit & LGBTQ+ Advocacy Project as a supervising attorney to lead, shape, and grow our LGBTQ+ Advocacy Project and medical-legal partnership.
Our Organization
Bronx Legal Services, the largest provider of free civil legal services in the borough, is
part of Legal Services NYC's network of local programs throughout New York City. Our mission is to advance society's promise to its most vulnerable members: that they are entitled to equal access to our legal system. For over 50 years, we have provided civil legal services that help our clients meet their essential needs and have challenged the systemic injustices that keep them poor.
Bronx Legal Services 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 diverse, equitable, and inclusive. Our DEIB committee and numerous affinity groups work to foster collegial relationships among staff 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.
The Public Benefits Unit & LGBTQ+ Advocacy Project
The Supervising Attorney will be part of our combined Public Benefits Unit & LGBTQ+ Advocacy Project. We are two teams but one unit. This supervisor would be on both teams.
The Public Benefits Unit: Medical-Legal Partnership
Our Public Benefits Unit (PBU) includes a medical-legal partnership (MLP) with a federally qualified community health center in the Bronx. We conduct on-site intake at the health center, provide training, and work towards clinic-level changes targeting the social determinants of health. Our MLP provides advice and representation across a full spectrum of civil legal service needs. Currently, about one-third of our MLP cases are immigration and one-third are public benefits (home care, health, cash assistance, SNAP, WIC, SSI, Medicaid, & noncitizen eligibility for benefits).
The LGBTQ+ Advocacy Project
The LGBTQ+ Advocacy Project is a general practice unit that provides comprehensive legal services in a single location for the LGBTQ+ community. The Project provides representation in a broad-range of civil legal needs including community and economic development; public assistance, social security, and other benefits; healthcare; immigration; advance directives and planning; housing preservation; and, consumer law. The Project also engages in affirmative litigation challenging discrimination and other systemic abuses faced by LGBTQ+ and HIV-affected communities.
The Opportunity
We are seeking a supervising attorney to manage, lead, and expand both our LGBTQ+ Advocacy Project and MLP. The supervisor will manage a team of advocates in a generalist practice, guided by client needs and changing trends. The supervisor will carry a reasonable caseload consistent with their other responsibilities.
The Supervisor will report to the Director of the Public Benefits & LGBTQ Advocacy Units and will work side-by-side with the other PBU supervisors and entire LSNYC management team.
Qualifications include:
• Admission to the New York State Bar;
• At least three years of experience in one or more of the following practice areas: immigration, public benefits, or family;
• Prior health law experience or prior experience in a medical setting (including an MLP), public health, or health policy required;
• Prior experience representing LGBTQ+ people required;
• Prior experience working with clients with diminished capacity required;
• Prior experience representing litigants at administrative hearings and in City, State, or Federal Courts required;
• Commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) and utilization of DEIB lens in the project, work, and supervision;
• An ability to adapt quickly and correct course;
• Superlative communication and interpersonal skills, with an aptitude for building relationships with people across disciplines, job titles, and agencies;
• Grace, kindness, and empathy, particularly when under pressure, for our clients, team, and agency partners;
• Excellent teacher, facilitator, educator, trainer, coach, and mentor;
• Belief in our ability to create systemic change and commitment to working towards that goal;
• Consummate project management skills, including a command of time management and organizational skills, staying on top of multiple projects, planning backwards, anticipating obstacles, identifying and involving stakeholders appropriately, and using resources wisely;
• A demonstrated passion for social justice and a commitment to working with low-income communities and communities of color to advance equity;
• Ability to identify trends in our high volume of individual cases that could be addressed by strategic action or creative interventions;
• An understanding of the dynamics of intimate partner/domestic violence and trafficking, as well as the effects abuse, crime, and trauma have on individuals and communities;
• Aptitude for working with LGBTQ+ people, victims of crime, noncitizens, older persons, and/or people with disabilities;
• Good writing skills;
• Excellent organizational skills and strong facility with numbers;
• Experience working with low-income people;
• Experience in multiple areas of civil legal services practice areas strongly preferred;
• Prior experience in a medical-legal partnership setting preferred;
• Prior supervisory experience preferred but not required; and
• Fluency or proficiency in Spanish or another language commonly spoken by Bronx residents is strongly preferred.
How to Apply
To apply for the position, submit a cover letter, résumé, two recent writing samples, and names of three references. For your references, please include their titles, your relationship to the reference (e.g., former supervisor, colleague), phone numbers, and email addresses.
Only candidates selected for interviews will be contacted. No telephone calls. We will only interview applicants who submit completed materials through this email address. We will not review résumés or other applications sent via any other method, such as Indeed or LinkedIn.
Bronx Legal Services is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. People of color, women, people with disabilities, gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people, and people over age 40 are all welcomed and encouraged to apply.
Bronx Legal Services acknowledges that applicants from groups that have been historically marginalized are less likely to apply for positions unless they feel that they meet 100% of a job description's qualifications. We understand that the ideal candidate might not completely meet the criteria listed above or be equally proficient in each area; we especially encourage applicants who are impacted by LSNYC's work to submit their application anyway.
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#71_2024; Posted: 07.2024
Salary Range: $103,200 - $165,120 (based on years of experience)
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.
Legal Services NYC is an equal opportunity employer. People of color, women, people with disabilities, people over 40, and gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people are strongly encouraged to apply.
LSNYC employees have numerous opportunities for growth and professional development, including access to our internal Justice Learning Center, which provides opportunities to earn free CLEs and gain experience as a trainer. Further, LSNYC prides itself on its Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) efforts and aims to create a work environment where everyone can bring their full selves to the work.
We are seeking an experienced attorney to join our Public Benefits Unit & LGBTQ+ Advocacy Project as a supervising attorney to lead, shape, and grow our LGBTQ+ Advocacy Project and medical-legal partnership.
Our Organization
Bronx Legal Services, the largest provider of free civil legal services in the borough, is
part of Legal Services NYC's network of local programs throughout New York City. Our mission is to advance society's promise to its most vulnerable members: that they are entitled to equal access to our legal system. For over 50 years, we have provided civil legal services that help our clients meet their essential needs and have challenged the systemic injustices that keep them poor.
Bronx Legal Services 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 diverse, equitable, and inclusive. Our DEIB committee and numerous affinity groups work to foster collegial relationships among staff 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.
The Public Benefits Unit & LGBTQ+ Advocacy Project
The Supervising Attorney will be part of our combined Public Benefits Unit & LGBTQ+ Advocacy Project. We are two teams but one unit. This supervisor would be on both teams.
The Public Benefits Unit: Medical-Legal Partnership
Our Public Benefits Unit (PBU) includes a medical-legal partnership (MLP) with a federally qualified community health center in the Bronx. We conduct on-site intake at the health center, provide training, and work towards clinic-level changes targeting the social determinants of health. Our MLP provides advice and representation across a full spectrum of civil legal service needs. Currently, about one-third of our MLP cases are immigration and one-third are public benefits (home care, health, cash assistance, SNAP, WIC, SSI, Medicaid, & noncitizen eligibility for benefits).
The LGBTQ+ Advocacy Project
The LGBTQ+ Advocacy Project is a general practice unit that provides comprehensive legal services in a single location for the LGBTQ+ community. The Project provides representation in a broad-range of civil legal needs including community and economic development; public assistance, social security, and other benefits; healthcare; immigration; advance directives and planning; housing preservation; and, consumer law. The Project also engages in affirmative litigation challenging discrimination and other systemic abuses faced by LGBTQ+ and HIV-affected communities.
The Opportunity
We are seeking a supervising attorney to manage, lead, and expand both our LGBTQ+ Advocacy Project and MLP. The supervisor will manage a team of advocates in a generalist practice, guided by client needs and changing trends. The supervisor will carry a reasonable caseload consistent with their other responsibilities.
The Supervisor will report to the Director of the Public Benefits & LGBTQ Advocacy Units and will work side-by-side with the other PBU supervisors and entire LSNYC management team.
Qualifications include:
• Admission to the New York State Bar;
• At least three years of experience in one or more of the following practice areas: immigration, public benefits, or family;
• Prior health law experience or prior experience in a medical setting (including an MLP), public health, or health policy required;
• Prior experience representing LGBTQ+ people required;
• Prior experience working with clients with diminished capacity required;
• Prior experience representing litigants at administrative hearings and in City, State, or Federal Courts required;
• Commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) and utilization of DEIB lens in the project, work, and supervision;
• An ability to adapt quickly and correct course;
• Superlative communication and interpersonal skills, with an aptitude for building relationships with people across disciplines, job titles, and agencies;
• Grace, kindness, and empathy, particularly when under pressure, for our clients, team, and agency partners;
• Excellent teacher, facilitator, educator, trainer, coach, and mentor;
• Belief in our ability to create systemic change and commitment to working towards that goal;
• Consummate project management skills, including a command of time management and organizational skills, staying on top of multiple projects, planning backwards, anticipating obstacles, identifying and involving stakeholders appropriately, and using resources wisely;
• A demonstrated passion for social justice and a commitment to working with low-income communities and communities of color to advance equity;
• Ability to identify trends in our high volume of individual cases that could be addressed by strategic action or creative interventions;
• An understanding of the dynamics of intimate partner/domestic violence and trafficking, as well as the effects abuse, crime, and trauma have on individuals and communities;
• Aptitude for working with LGBTQ+ people, victims of crime, noncitizens, older persons, and/or people with disabilities;
• Good writing skills;
• Excellent organizational skills and strong facility with numbers;
• Experience working with low-income people;
• Experience in multiple areas of civil legal services practice areas strongly preferred;
• Prior experience in a medical-legal partnership setting preferred;
• Prior supervisory experience preferred but not required; and
• Fluency or proficiency in Spanish or another language commonly spoken by Bronx residents is strongly preferred.
How to Apply
To apply for the position, submit a cover letter, résumé, two recent writing samples, and names of three references. For your references, please include their titles, your relationship to the reference (e.g., former supervisor, colleague), phone numbers, and email addresses.
Only candidates selected for interviews will be contacted. No telephone calls. We will only interview applicants who submit completed materials through this email address. We will not review résumés or other applications sent via any other method, such as Indeed or LinkedIn.
Bronx Legal Services is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. People of color, women, people with disabilities, gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people, and people over age 40 are all welcomed and encouraged to apply.
Bronx Legal Services acknowledges that applicants from groups that have been historically marginalized are less likely to apply for positions unless they feel that they meet 100% of a job description's qualifications. We understand that the ideal candidate might not completely meet the criteria listed above or be equally proficient in each area; we especially encourage applicants who are impacted by LSNYC's work to submit their application anyway.
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#71_2024; Posted: 07.2024
Salary Range: $103,200 - $165,120 (based on years of experience)
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.
Legal Services NYC is an equal opportunity employer. People of color, women, people with disabilities, people over 40, and gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people are strongly encouraged to apply.