Attorney - Intake

Legal Aid of Southeast & Central Ohio • Columbus, OH

2d • $72,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Legal Aid of Southeast and Central Ohio (LASCO)’s mission is to provide civil legal aid and advocacy to overcome unfairness and injustice, reduce poverty, and increase opportunity. LASCO has a long-standing history of being committed to searching out the patterns, causes of, and solutions to the repetitive and fundamental legal problems facing low-income Ohioans and pursuing the legal recourse needed to address those problems. Since 1966, our organizations have helped thousands of Ohio’s poor obtain and keep housing, secure public benefits, worked with families to gain and maintain economic stability, and helped domestic violence survivors to live free of fear and abuse and to obtain the resources needed to sustain themselves and their children. LASCO is actively seeking a dedicated, professional Attorney to collaborate and work in partnership with the Intake Managing Attorney and the Intake Supervising Attorney to provide support and resources to the Intake staff across the program and assist with compliance and grant reporting responsibilities for the organization. Are You Someone Who: Is dedicated to improving the lives of low-income individuals in our communities? Is motivated, professional and customer service focused? Enjoys creatively helping clients triumph over adversity? Works well within a collaborative, team-driven, and goal-based environment? Can communicate verbally and in writing with a wide range of people? Creates processes to increase work efficiencies and systems to work smarter not harder? Takes pride in excellent attention to detail when producing documents and other work? Promotes a culture of high performance and continuous improvement that values learning and quality? Is interested in developing a wide range of legal skills and experiences? Engages in continuous learning? You Will: Work collaboratively with the Intake team across all offices to support the full intake process including, but not limited to, supporting staff during time on the intake queue Provide project support as part of the continuous work of improving efficiencies in the Intake process, including LegalServer fluency and script builds and adjustments Provide assistance to staff with intake questions, including substantive law, eligibility and procedural questions, in broad range of areas Assist the team with the intake queue, online intake, and community referrals Gather and prepare data from the case management system among others to include in reports for LSC self-inspection audits Help support the organization through an understanding of and compliance with LSC and program regulations and requirements. These include established intake procedures, PAI requirements, RFP requirements, financial requirements, eligibility screening, priorities, conflict checking, and confidentiality, among others Support compliance with program administrative requirements including statistical reports and LSC and other governmental reporting requirements Remain current on emerging legal topics and identify trends related to relevant areas of law Collaborate across departments to assist with pulling data from the case management system as well as implementing changes to the case management system to comply with grant requirements Support other areas of growth for our intake teams including but not limited to the development of materials and resources, fair housing intake, a housing hotline, and more.

Requirements

• Strong legal advocacy skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic environment
• High ability to exercise sound judgment and discretion
• High ability to facilitate collaboration as well as build and sustain productive relationships with diverse individuals, groups and organizations
• Excellent communication skills, both orally and written, with diverse audiences
• A commitment to access for all people with a wide variety of lived experiences both internally and externally
• Strong work ethic
• Proficiency in Microsoft applications, knowledge of current technologies and commitment to remain up to date with industry best practices
• English language proficiency is essential and Spanish/English bilingual skills are a plus.
• Juris Doctor from an accredited law school and admitted to the Bar of the State of Ohio (or if not currently admitted, expected to obtain admission within 12 months from date of hire) preferred

Nice To Haves

• Prior Legal Aid or related work experience preferred, but not required
• Additional languages – even better

Responsibilities

• Work collaboratively with the Intake team across all offices to support the full intake process including, but not limited to, supporting staff during time on the intake queue
• Provide project support as part of the continuous work of improving efficiencies in the Intake process, including LegalServer fluency and script builds and adjustments
• Provide assistance to staff with intake questions, including substantive law, eligibility and procedural questions, in broad range of areas
• Assist the team with the intake queue, online intake, and community referrals
• Gather and prepare data from the case management system among others to include in reports for LSC self-inspection audits
• Help support the organization through an understanding of and compliance with LSC and program regulations and requirements. These include established intake procedures, PAI requirements, RFP requirements, financial requirements, eligibility screening, priorities, conflict checking, and confidentiality, among others
• Support compliance with program administrative requirements including statistical reports and LSC and other governmental reporting requirements
• Remain current on emerging legal topics and identify trends related to relevant areas of law
• Collaborate across departments to assist with pulling data from the case management system as well as implementing changes to the case management system to comply with grant requirements
• Support other areas of growth for our intake teams including but not limited to the development of materials and resources, fair housing intake, a housing hotline, and more.

Benefits

• LASCO offers an excellent comprehensive benefits package, currently including an employer funded HRA (up to $12,000), employer-paid employee dental and vision insurance, a language skills differential ($2,500-$3,500 annually), paid vacation, sick and holiday time, LRAP eligibility, and ongoing training and development opportunities.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree