Florida Staff Attorneys Positions: Experienced and new attorney positions available. Responsibilities: Provide individual client legal services and participate in impact representation. Qualifications: Commitment to high-quality legal assistance to the poor. Opening/Closing Date: Currently open; closed when filled. Salary/Benefits: $18,000+ D.O.E.; paid medical, dental, and life insurance. Applications: Send resume to: Kent R. Spuhler, Executive Director Jacksonville, FL 32202-4092, (904) 356-8371 Georgia-Director of Litigation Position: The Atlanta Legal Aid Society is looking for a Director of Litigation. Responsibilities: Include supervision and coordination of all major litigation and appeals, legal supervision of the program specialists, coordination of the program's case management systems, and formal and informal training of staff attorneys. Qualifications: Applicants must have at least 6 years of legal practice in poverty law and must have extensive experience in complex litigation, especially federal litigation and appeals. If hired, an out-of-state applicant would be expected to pass the first available Georgia bar exam. Opening/Closing Date: Open until filled. Salary: $30,000 D.O.E. Applications: Submit a resume, letter of application, legal writing sample, and list of major cases with precis of each to: Steve Gottlieb, Director Atlanta Legal Aid Society 151 Spring St., NW The Atlanta Legal Aid Society is an affirmative action employer; minorities and women are encouraged to apply. Georgia Staff Attorney Position: Staff Attorney. Responsibilities: Handle a varied caseload in state and federal courts and in administrative forums, circuit ride to 3 rural counties, and provide community education. Responsibilities: Provide advice, counseling, Qualifications: Georgia bar or willingness to Qualifications: The Specialist must be knowl- Opening/Closing Date: Open until filled. Salary/Benefits: D.O.E.; excellent fringes. Applications: Send resume to: Melinda P. Agee Georgia Legal Services Program 120 Ralph McGill Blvd., Suite 1125, Box 64 Atlanta, GA 30308, (404) 894-7707 Salary: $7/hr.; 20 hrs./wk. during the school Applications: Contact: Aviva Futorian 343 S. Dearborn St Chicago, IL 60604, (312) 341-1070 E.O.E. Illinois-Patient Representative Position: Patient Representative, ArcVentures, Responsibilities: Assist patients in all aspects of establishing eligibility for medical assistance with the Department of Public Aid. Qualifications: Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, familiarity with public aid medical assistance programs, and college degree. Opening/Closing Date: Until filled. Salary/Benefits: $15,000-$20,000 D.O.E.; excellent benefits. Applications: Send resume to: Charles R. Goldstein, Director Responsibilities: (1) Collaborate with 10-15 law students each quarter in representing indigent clients in one of the Clinic's specialties: utilities regulation, welfare rights, employment discrimination, mental health law, and rights of the disabled; (2) provide instruction to students through direct supervision, group case conferences, and classroom teaching in planning and performing litigation skills and other lawyering skills including negotiation, counseling, and legislative advocacy; (3) plan and execute a litigation and legislative program to correct systemic problems facing the poor. Qualifications: Member of Illinois bar or will sit for next bar exam; ability to teach law students through supervision on actual cases, group case conferences and classroom methods; ability to litigate a combination of a sizeable individual caseload and complex systemic reform cases; experience in litigation and trials. Opening/Closing Date: Open until filled. Salary/Benefits: $25,000 upwards/full non-faculty benefits at University of Chicago. Applications: Send resume to: Professor Gary H. Palm University of Chicago Law School 1111 E. 60th St. Chicago, IL 60637, (312) 702-9611 Indiana Staff Person Position: Salaried staff position in Marion, Indiana, law office providing services in personal, civil legal matters to UAW workers and their families. Qualifications: Must be admitted in Indiana; prefer 2 years of related experience. Closing Date: When filled. Salary/Benefits: $27,000 or higher depending on experience; benefits include life, health, dental, and optical; retirement; generous vacation and holiday leave. Applications: Send resume to: UAW-GM Legal Services Plan 3750 Guion Rd., Suite 190 Indianapolis, IN 46222 Kentucky-Directing Attorney and Staff Attorney Background: Appalachian Research and Defense Fund of Kentucky, Inc., is a legal services program that is in its 14th year of serving low-income clients and client groups in the mountains of eastern Kentucky and in the western tobacco and farming counties of the Kentucky Appalachian area. During these years, our program has been involved in significant representation of clients and client groups among others in coalrelated environmental matters-representation leading to the liberalization of standards for black lung benefits, establishment of shelters for victims of spouse abuse, incorporation and assistance of economic development groups, and development of due process procedures for utility cutoffs. During this period, we have also served thousands of low-income clients in their day-to-day needs in the traditional areas of poverty law representation, such as housing, consumer matters, claims for public benefits, and domestic relations. Despite funding cuts, our program continues to include a network of 9 operating field offices with a staff of approximately 26 attorneys, 19 paralegals and supporting personnel, and a research support office on the campus of the University of Kentucky. Each office has excellent library facilities and the necessary equipment to permit the staff to function as a first-class law firm. The program is making a particular commitment to the hiring of women and minorities. We have the following position: Position: Staff Attorney, Somerset, Kentucky, office. Responsibilities: Handling a general caseload on a full range of poverty law problems in federal and state courts. Qualifications: Bar admission with experience preferred; applicant must have a specific interest in living and working in rural Appalachian area with a commitment of at least 2 years. Opening/Closing Date: Currently open; closing when filled. Salary/Benefits: D.O.E.; excellent fringe benefits. Applications: If interested in either position, send a resume under a cover letter indicating the specific nature of your interest in the position, particularly in working in a rural area, and enclose a writing sample. Selected applicants will be asked to visit the offices. Write: John M. Rosenberg, Director Appalachian Research and Defense Fund of Kentucky, Inc. 205 Front St. Prestonsburg, KY 41653, (606) 886-3876 Louisiana Staff Attorney Position: North Louisiana Legal Assistance Corp. (NLLAC), a nonprofit law firm providing free civil legal services to the poor in a 12-parish area of northeast Louisiana, seeks to fill the position of staff attorney. Responsibilities: Maintain varied caseload, including housing, public benefits, consumer, employment, and domestic, under supervision of managing attorney; work with community groups; participate in community education and self-help. Qualifications: License to practice in Louisiana preferred; must pass next Louisiana bar exam. Opening/Closing Date: Immediate opening, closed when filled. Salary/Benefits: $18,000+ D.O.E. for admitted Louisiana attorney; excellent fringe benefits. Applications: Send resume, references, legal writing sample, and law school transcript to: Executive Director North Louisiana Legal Assistance Corp. P.O. Box 3325 Monroe, LA 71210, (318) 323-8851 NLLAC, an equal opportunity employer, encourages handicapped, minority, and women applicants. Massachusetts-Attorney Position: The Nuclear Safety Unit, Massachusetts Department of the Attorney General, is seeking an attorney with strong administrative hearing and appellate court skills. Responsibilities: The work concerns various aspects of the licensing of the Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant. Qualifications: The position requires an attorney with at least 5 years of litigation experience and significant experience conducting administrative hearings and appeals. Opening/Closing Date: Open until filled. Salary: Salary commensurate with experience. Applications: Send resumes to: Stephen A. Jonas Deputy Chief, Public Protection Bureau Department of the Attorney General One Ashburton Pl., 19th Fl. Boston, MA 02108 Written inquiries only. An Equal Opportunity Employer. The Public Interest Handbook: A Guide to Legal Careers This book has been published to provide public interest-minded law students and lawyers with the information necessary to pursue legal careers in the public interest. The book covers public interest organizations outside of government that employ attorneys or undertake substantive legal work. The book is divided into two main parts. The first is a compilation of 368 forms completed by public interest organizations throughout the United States, arranged by state. The form contains practical employment information, including basic address information and descriptive information about the organization's structure and its areas of specialization. The second part consists of four appendices that contain the names, addresses, and contact persons of public interest legal organizations, public defenders, public interest law firms, and labor organizations for which forms were not submitted. The Public Interest Handbook, by Geoffrey Kaiser and Barbara Mulé, is available for $29.95 from Locust Hill Press, P.O. Box 260, West Cornwall, CT 06796, (203) 672-0060. |