- Under policies and procedures established by SCLS, attorneys provide a wide range of high-quality legal services, from advice and brief services to full representation, advocacy, legal outreach, and legal education to protect the rights and represent the interests of the low-income community.
- The areas of civil legal practice include, but are not limited to, community economic development, consumer, education, employment, family, federal income tax, housing, probate, public benefits, and migrant farmworkers.
- Ensures the delivery of high-quality legal representation, advocacy, and legal education to low-income individuals and families in accordance with SCLS priorities and procedures.
- Performs legal research, prepares memoranda, pleadings, discovery, motions, appeals, and interrogatories, and keeps the Managing Attorney advised of case statuses.
- Appears in State and Federal courts for motions, trials, arguments, hearings, rules to show cause, pre-trial conferences, status conferences, roster/docket sounding, and appeals. Fills in for other attorneys as needed.
- Identify/analyze systemic issues through individual and impact cases.
- Participates in advocacy, unit, program-wide, planning, and strategy meetings with partners and statewide advocates.
- Develop and maintain relationships with client groups and community-based service providers, working with them to identify community lawyering opportunities.
- Performs all other duties as may be requested by the Managing Attorney.
- Attorneys must possess and maintain a valid membership in the South Carolina Bar Association.
- Attorneys must complete all rules and requirements set by the South Carolina Bar and the South Carolina Supreme Court.
- Litigation and clinical experience preferred but not required if committed to:
- (a) Public interest/poverty law
- (b) Working with low-income, underserved, rural, diverse clients and client communities
- (c) Ability to collaborate effectively with other advocates and those agencies that serve the low-income community
- Fully proficient in written and spoken English and Spanish.
Farmworker Attorney - Charleston County - South Carolina Legal Services
16 hours ago
Description
About the Company
South Carolina Legal Services is a statewide law firm that provides civil legal services to protect the rights and represent the interests of low-income South Carolinians.
About the Role
This position provides civil litigation and outreach to low-income migrant and seasonal agricultural farmworkers. The primary practice areas will include employment law, occupational safety and health law, and civil rights.
The farmworker attorney will assist in outreach to farmworker communities and camps and develop relationships with other organizations serving farmworkers. To successfully reach the target groups, the position requires some evening, weekend, and overnight work. Statewide travel is involved.
Responsibilities
Qualifications
Required Skills
Pay range and compensation package
SCLS offers a very generous compensation package. Health, Dental, Vision, Group Term Life, Accidental Death, and Short—and Long-term coverage are 100% employer-paid. Annual and sick leave is also available.
SCLS will pay the cost of continuing legal education (CLE) courses, the South Carolina Bar Dues, one County Bar Dues, and the CLE certification fees. However, it is the responsibility of the attorney to keep abreast of CLE hours and to ensure that membership dues are forwarded to the accounting department in a timely fashion and before the deadlines imposed by the Supreme Court. SCLS will not be responsible for late fees resulting from negligence of any attorney in reporting CLE hours or paying membership fees.
Equal Opportunity Statement
SCLS is an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate based on actual or perceived race, creed, color, religion, alienage or national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, disability or handicap, sex, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, genetic information, arrest record, pregnancy or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.