Supervising Attorney - White Plains, United States - Make the Road

Description

Make the Road New York (MRNY) builds the power of immigrant and working-class communities to achieve dignity and justice through organizing, policy innovation, transformative education, and survival services.

Make the Road New York operates community centers in Bushwick, Brooklyn; Jackson Heights, Queens; Port Richmond, Staten Island; Brentwood, Long Island and White Plains, Westchester County.

With a membership of 25,000, MRNY tackles the critical issues facing our communities, including workplace justice, tenants' rights, immigrant rights and civil rights, TGNCIQ justice, public education, health care access, and immigration reform.

(TGNCIQ = transgender, gender non-conforming, intersex and queer). MRNY is a newly unionized workplace, currently negotiating its first Collective Bargaining Agreement.

MRNY is a multi-service organization.

Our member-led organizing committees - which work on the issues named above - implement strategies to combat shared problems, and develop leadership and the capacity for civic participation.

We also provide an array of high-quality bilingual services: We offer English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL), Spanish-language literacy, computer literacy, citizenship preparation, and in-school and after-school youth programs.

We have a robust legal program that offers direct representation across a spectrum of practice areas, including employment law, immigration law, housing and benefits, and TGNCIQ civil rights; we also take on impact litigation as a strategy for achieving broad change.

Our health program offers facilitated enrollment into health insurance programs and SNAP benefits, a community health worker home visit program, nutrition education and emergency food pantries, health care navigation, and more.

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Current Opening:

The supervising attorney maintains an active docket of immigration cases, including those in removal proceedings and other complex litigation.

The supervising attorney will support a team of at least 4 FTE team members, including staff attorneys and paralegals authorized to represent clients directly.

The supervising attorney is responsible for general oversight of a significant portion of the team legal practice, and is directly responsible for overseeing compliance (including reporting and site visits) and managing key funder relationships.

Key Responsibilities but not limited:

• Supervise at least 4 FTEs in their immigration practice, ensuring the provision of quality legal services, develop their professional development and growth, and facilitate the support of relevant organizing efforts around immigration and other organizing efforts.
• Provide individualized assistance to clients currently in removal proceedings or eligible for immigration relief in a broad range of categories including SIJ, Asylum, U/T visas, cancellation of removal and others. This includes staying up to date on developments in the law.
• Coordinate and assist in community and staff education efforts including through the creation of written materials, KYR presentations, and popular education workshops
• Support MRNY members and organizing campaigns by strategizing on policy, through strategic litigation, legislative advocacy, research, media and action support
• Coordinate immigration team meetings, professional development, and strategy (arc of team's work) as well as assist to plan and execute departmentwide initiatives including helping to manage legal department systems that ensure effective intake, case management, and general functioning of MRNY's legal practice.
• Management of multiple key immigration grants, and work closely with the legal grants manager to report on case data and deliverables generally.
• Coordinate immigration team's response to new policy developments and new legal needs, including providing information about policy changes across the team, understanding team capacity across the offices, shifting and prioritizing work accordingly, and organizing any events necessary for our response.
• Play a key role in department fundraising efforts and grants management work
• Help maintain connections with immigration legal services community by attending task force meetings, trainings, etc.
• Continuously build an understanding of movement lawyering techniques, emerging immigration legal strategies, and racialized capitalism (as at play within the immigration legal system and within MRNY)

Requirements:

• Eligible to work in the US
• Required to be fully vaccinated with an FDA approved COVID19 vaccine prior first day of employment
• Law degree (such as J.D.) and license to practice law in New York State.
• At least 7 years of experience in immigration law.
• Strong managerial, organizational, writing, and communication skills
• Ability to build and maintain relationships with diverse stakeholders
• Knowledge of immigration law and removal defense litigation is preferred
• Excellent problemsolving and decisionmaking abilities
• Abili