All Current Job Openings

Civil Practice

• Director of Housing
• Paralegal Casehandler, Immigrant Opportunities Initiative
• Supervising Attorney, Public Housing Unit 
• Paralegal Casehandler, Public Housing Unit
• Deputy Attorney-in-Charge, Immigration Law Unit
• Staff Attorney, Family/Domestic Violence Unit
• Law Graduate, Housing Justice – Tenant Defense Fall 2024
• Staff Attorney, Disability Advocacy Project
• Supervising Attorney, Government Benefits Unit
• Housing Coordinator, Housing Justice Tenant Defense
• Paralegal Casehandler, Housing Group Advocacy (Queens)
• Supervising Attorney, Housing Justice Tenant Defense (Staten Island, Bronx, Brooklyn)
• Paralegal Casehandler, Immigrant Opportunities Initiative
• Floating Supervising Attorney, Housing Justice Program – Tenant Defense
• Staff Attorney, Housing Group Advocacy
• Paralegal Casehandler, Housing Justice NYCHA Helpline (Manhattan)
• Paralegal Casehandler, Housing Justice Tenant Defense (Brooklyn & Bronx)
• Supervising Attorney, Housing Justice – Group Advocacy
• Staff Attorney, Immigration – Detained Removal Defense
• Attorney-in-Charge of General Civil Legal Services
• Supervising Attorney, Criminal Defense Immigration Team
• Supervising Attorney, Immigration – Detained Removal Defense
• Staff Attorney, Housing Tenant Defense (Citywide)
• General Volunteer, Pro Bono

Criminal Defense Practice

• Grant Writer 
• Family Law Staff Attorney, Community Justice Unit (CJU)
• Paralegal I, Discovery Unit
• Paralegal II, SORA
• Assistant Social Work Supervisor (Queens) 
• Paralegal II, Brooklyn Trial Office
• Social Work Supervisor (Pre-Arraignment Project)
• Investigator, Trial Office (Bronx)
• Investigator, Trial Office (Manhattan)
• Investigator,  Trial Office (Staten Island)
• Paralegal I, Prisoners’ Rights Project
• Paralegal I, Trial Office
• Paralegal Casehandler, Exploitation Intervention Project
• Supervising Attorney, Trial Offices
• Staff Attorney, Decarceration Project
• Staff Attorney, Prisoners’ Rights Project (PRP)
• Criminal Defense Practice Staff Attorney, Entry Level Fall 2024
• Anchor Attorney, Homicide Defense Task Force (HDTF)
• Supervising Attorney, Criminal Appeals Bureau (CAB)
• Staff Attorney, Law Reform & Special Litigation Unit
• Supervising Attorney, Criminal Immigration Project
• Paralegal II, Staten Island Trial Office
• Director, Criminal Appeals Bureau (CAB)
• Paralegal II, Homicide Defense Task Force (HDTF)
• Paralegal II (Bronx)
• Felony Criminal Defense Attorney
• Deputy Director of Grants & Contracts
• Supervisor, Domestic Violence Survivors Justice Act (DVSJA) & Case Closed Project
• Paralegal II, Criminal Appeals Bureau (CAB) – Quick Resolution Project (QRP)
• Attorney in Charge, Law Reform
• Supervising Paralegal, Criminal Appeals Bureau (CAB)
• Staff Attorney, DNA Unit
• Grants & Contracts Coordinator
• General Volunteer, Pro Bono

Juvenile Rights Practice

• Staff Attorney, Education Advocacy Project (EAP)
• Staff Attorney, Trial Office
• Staff Attorney, Special Litigation & Law Reform Unit
• Staff Attorney, Entry Level Fall 2024
• Assistant Attorney in Charge, Trial Office
• General Volunteer, Pro Bono

Administration

• Chief DEI Officer
• Sr. Technical Analyst
• Accounts Payable Supervisor
• Facilities Maintenance Coordinator
• Internal Communications Manager
• Director of Employee Relations
• Grants and Contracts Manager
• Accounting Manager
• Payroll Manager
• Financial Planning & Analysis Manager
• Staff Accountant, Grant Revenue

Key Information

You can view postings on our ADP Recruitment Portal, and apply to any position that suits your interest. Required documents must be uploaded as a single PDF. If documents are not in a single PDF your application will not be processed.

Applications submitted without all the required materials will not be processed.

You must submit your application through the ADP Recruitment Portal in order to be considered. Resumes and other documents submitted to our jobpostquestions@legal-aid.org email inbox will not be processed.

Internal Applicants/Current LAS Employees: If you are interested in applying to any positions, please log into our Internal Careersite to apply. If you have any issue logging in, please contact jobpostquestions@legal-aid.org for assistance.

Once you have completed your application you will receive a confirmation email.

The status of your application can be viewed by logging into your account.

Application Screening

If your skills match the position for which you applied, a recruiter or a representative from the organization may contact you either by phone or email. You should keep an eye out for any communications sent to you regarding employment with our organization.

We welcome any questions that you may have. Inquiries can be sent to our email inbox at jobpostquestions@legal-aid.org.

We ask that during the application screening you remain patient.

Interview Process

If selected for an interview we may choose to speak with you in person, over the phone, or by video. Interviews in person may be held at the job location, and may be held by the hiring manager or committee members.

We will provide you with information on The Legal Aid Society, as well as provide you with some insight into the position that you will be interviewing for. As we take the time to get to know you, we are hoping that you have some questions for us as well so that we can be sure that our organization is a good fit for you.

Hiring Process

After the interview process has been completed, the hiring manager and/or committee will assess all of the candidates, and will make a decision as to whom an offer should be made.

We ask that you remain patient during the decision-making process.

Offers & Onboarding

Once a hiring decision has been made, an offer will be extended to the selected candidate via email. The candidate must review and decide whether to accept the offer that is made. Once the offer has been accepted, the successful candidate will be required to complete onboarding paperwork.

We Encourage You To:

• Sign up to receive notifications for our latest job openings on our ADP Recruitment Portal, by clicking on the Notify Me button.
• Check out the “Resources for Jobseekers” search tool for questions that you may have prior to applying to postings.
• Stay on top of current events that relate to Public Interest Law, as well as keeping informed of events and initiatives that The Legal Aid Society is involved in by viewing “Latest News & Upcoming Events” on our Homepage.

The application process can be competitive; however, we hope that this does not discourage you from applying for other opportunities. We look to pair the right person to the right job, making the selected individual a part of this dynamic organization.

Equal Employment Opportunity is the Law

As an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Employer, The Legal Aid Society prohibits discriminatory employment actions against and treatment of its employees and applicants for employment based on actual or perceived race or color, size (including bone structure, body size, height, shape, and weight), religion or creed, alienage or citizenship status, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity (one’s internal deeply-held sense of one’s gender which may be the same or different from one’s sex assigned at birth); gender expression (the representation of gender as expressed through, for example, one’s name, choice of pronouns, clothing, haircut, behavior, voice, or body characteristics; gender expression may not conform to traditional gender-based stereotypes assigned to specific gender identities), disability, marital status, relationship and family structure (including domestic partnerships, polyamorous families and individuals, chosen family, platonic co-parents, and multigenerational families), genetic information or predisposing genetic characteristics, military status, domestic violence victim status, arrest or pre-employment conviction record, credit history, unemployment status, caregiver status, salary history, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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