STAFF ATTORNEY (INTAKE & STRATEGIC INTERVENTION)
About The Position
Join the Intake and Strategic Intervention team at Legal Assistance the Elderly (LAE)! We provide a vital service, serving tenants who are seniors or have disabilities and are threatened with losing their homes. Sixty percent of LAE’s clients face housing threats including terminations of subsidies, unlawful rent increases, denials of necessary modifications, extra-judicial evictions and harassment. As a member of this team, you will conduct intakes, advise clients on housing matters, provide brief services designed to resolve problems before they escalate, and represent clients at administrative hearings before the San Francisco Rent Board, the San Francisco Housing Authority, and the California Civil Rights Department. Approximately 90% of the work is housing related. This is an excellent opportunity for an attorney who wants to make an immediate, concrete difference in clients' lives across a high volume and wide variety of matters. For over 47 years, LAE has provided free legal advice and representation to San Francisco’s seniors and adults with disabilities. Our mission is to protect and advance the right of San Francisco’s seniors and adults with disabilities to be housed, healthy, financially stable, and safe. Our primary practice areas are Eviction Defense/Housing Preservation, Income Support, Health Law, Financial and Physical Elder Abuse Prevention, Debt Collection Defense, Foreclosure Prevention, End of Life Planning and Conservatorship Defense. LAE is a friendly and collaborative work environment.
Requirements
- Member State Bar of California
- Strong written, verbal and interviewing skills
- Patient, flexible and kind
- Works well in a team
Nice To Haves
- Bilingual in English and Spanish, Cantonese and/or Mandarin
- Knowledge of landlord-tenant law, including rent control, housing subsidies, habitability, reasonable accommodations, and housing discrimination
- Knowledge of legal issues related to poverty and/or aging
- Experience with administrative hearings or advocacy before administrative agencies
- Experience working with elderly, disabled, or homeless individuals or those experiencing a crisis
- Experience working in a non-profit legal service organization or other non-profit
Responsibilities
- Conduct intake interviews with new clients, including home and hospital visits, when necessary
- Provide legal advice to tenants on housing matters
- Provide brief services, such as writing estoppel letters, requests for reasonable accommodations, and requests for repairs
- Represent clients at administrative hearings, including before the San Francisco Rent Board (unlawful rent increases), the San Francisco Housing Authority (subsidy terminations), and the California Civil Rights Department (housing discrimination)
- Work collaboratively with the team's supervisor, paralegal/client advocates, and reception staff to ensure clients are efficiently connected to the right services
- Provide legal support to Client Advocates and Paralegals
- Maintain accurate computerized client files and other documentation and provide project statistics to other staff as requested
- Provide in-office support to teammates responding to client emergencies and agency inquiries
Benefits
- 100% employer-covered medical, dental, and life insurance for employees and dependent children and up to 75% for spouses
- LAE student debt reimbursement program
- Employer-paid CA Bar license and/or social work license fees
- 403(b) retirement plan with annual LAE contribution
- Generous paid leave policy which includes sick leave, parental leave, compensation time, 20 holidays each year, and vacation (starting at 17 days and increasing after three years with additional years of employment)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
