Senior Counsel, Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection (ICAP)
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About The Position
The ICAP Staff Attorney 2 (Senior Counsel) will drive results in complex, fast-moving, high-impact litigation to defend key constitutional rights and values, as well as related legal rights. They will do so by employing diverse litigation experience as well as exceptional legal abilities. The Senior Counsel's responsibilities will include conceptualizing and effectuating high-impact litigation in defense of constitutional rights and values, ensuring that Georgetown Law students are meaningfully and materially integrated into those litigation efforts. The role involves engaging in factual development and legal research, drawing on legal research provided by students, research assistants, and other ICAP attorneys to assist in conceiving of and then driving constitutional impact litigation strategies in close coordination with the Institute's Executive Director, Legal Director, and Supreme Court Director. The Senior Counsel will determine when litigation represents a promising mechanism for pursuing the defense of constitutional rights, conceptualizing how litigation might be used in such circumstances and exploring the possibilities of filing such a suit, including the identification of, and outreach to, potential plaintiffs and partner organizations. They will also draft, revise, and edit briefing materials to be filed in court pertaining to those cases, assist in mooting the verbal advocates presenting and arguing the cases, and present evidence and verbal argument directly in courts, potentially at all levels of the state and federal court systems. The Senior Counsel will often assume the lead role in individual cases, subject to the supervision of the Executive Director, Legal Director, and Supreme Court Director, and will develop and implement policy solutions on issues related to ICAP's litigation and core mission. Additionally, they will closely support ICAP's leadership in overseeing a practicum seminar designed to involve Georgetown Law students in understanding the nature of constitutional impact litigation and in contributing to ICAP's work.
