98 staff attorney jobs found in New York, NY

POSITION DESCRIPTION The Jamestown office of LawNY® seeks to fill an immediate opening for a full time Staff Attorney in its Housing Unit. The Staff Attorney will provide direct legal representation, primarily in eviction defense cases in Chautauqua with additional town and village coverage in Cattaraugus County .   The candidate must have the caring, patience, and emotional maturity to help people with low-income overcome crisis situations. Staff Attorneys at LawNY® provide comprehensive legal services to eligible clients and the ideal candidate should have a strong understanding of how civil legal issues affecting communities with low-income intersect with social and economic justice.  QUALIFICATIONS   These are the basic requirements for the position. Admitted to practice and in good standing in New York State. Demonstrated commitment of service to people with low-income. Excellent oral and written communication...

The Immigration Law Unit (ILU) in The Legal Aid Society’s Civil Practice has one Temporary Staff Attorney position available. This one-year assignment will help ILU’s Federal Litigation team build capacity to represent low-income clients before the U.S. District Courts and the U.S. Courts of Appeals to safeguard immigrants’ constitutional rights and ensure that immigration laws are accurately interpreted and fairly applied. In particular, the attorney will assist in expanding our capacity to assist non-citizens in habeas matters, including utilizing advanced technology to integrate emerging legal arguments and create sharable litigation resources. The Staff Attorney will work closely with colleagues, as well as the clients they represent, to identify federal court interventions to address our clients’ needs. The Staff Attorney’s essential duties will include undertaking affirmative and other litigation challenging unlawful policies and practices, including habeas...

POSITION DESCRIPTION The Ithaca office of LawNY® seeks to fill an immediate opening for a full time Staff Attorney in its General Law/Public Benefits Unit. The Staff Attorney will assist at-risk students with cases involving education plans, school discipline for those with special needs, homelessness, and other issues specifically affecting students with low-income. The Staff Attorney will also assist clients with public benefits issues, which will include representing clients who have been denied disability benefits from the Social Security Administration.  We encourage applicants with a wide range of substantive legal experience to apply. We expect those who fill this position will grow and adapt their practice to the needs of the community and the organization. The candidate must have the caring, patience, and emotional maturity to help people with low-income overcome crisis situations. Staff Attorneys at LawNY® provide comprehensive legal...

MAJOR PURPOSE OF THE POSITION The Legal Aid Society’s Civil Practice has an opening for a Staff Attorney in the Family/Domestic Violence (DV) Project of the Bronx Neighborhood Office. The Family/DV Project provides comprehensive direct legal assistance to survivors of domestic violence in a broad range of civil matters, including orders of protection, divorces, custody, visitation, child support, spousal support, property rights, and contested divorces. The Family/DV Staff Attorney is expected to represent clients in all five boroughs primarily in family law and matrimonial matters, including contested matrimonials, custody, visitation, orders of protection, child and spousal support matters and uncontested divorces, as well as represent clients in multiple venues, including Supreme, Family, and the Integrated Domestic Violence courts. As part of the Family/DV Practice, the Staff Attorney will also work in conjunction with several community-based...

Staff Attorney – Non-Profit/Government 9 month Contract (Temporary, Remote) Pay Rate: $48–$54/hour A community-based non-profit organization is seeking a Staff Attorney to support its Contracts and Management Services team. This role will focus on drafting, reviewing, and negotiating contracts tied to federal, state, and local funding, while ensuring compliance with applicable regulations. Key Responsibilities: Advise internal departments on legal matters related to contracts and grant-funded programs Draft, review, redline, and negotiate subrecipient agreements, vendor contracts, and other legal documents Ensure all contractual agreements align with organizational goals and regulatory requirements Conduct legal and regulatory research and prepare memoranda Monitor and interpret regulatory changes at the city, state, and federal levels Provide guidance on ad hoc legal matters as needed Support compliance with government funding requirements, including...

POSITION DESCRIPTION The Elmira office of LawNY® seeks to fill an immediate opening for a full time Staff Attorney in its Housing Unit. The Staff Attorney will provide direct legal representation, primarily in eviction defense cases.  The candidate must have the caring, patience, and emotional maturity to help people with low-income overcome crisis situations. Staff Attorneys at LawNY® provide comprehensive legal services to eligible clients and the ideal candidate should have a strong understanding of how civil legal issues affecting communities with low-income intersect with social and economic justice. Staff Attorneys play a critical role in realizing LawNY®’s vision of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Every Staff Attorney is expected to actively engage in learning and becoming increasingly skilled in practice that supports this vision. QUALIFICATIONS   These are the basic requirements for the position. Admitted to practice and...

Title of role: Staff Attorney Short Term/ Part Time Location: New York or Boston or Remote Approved Salary Range: $75-$100 hr About the Role : The Rue Gilt Groupe legal team is seeking an attorney with multiple years of experience to serve as a Short Term-Part Time Staff Attorney. This position is a part-time role (approximately 10-20 hours/week) for about 6 months (May through December). The Short Term-Part Time Staff Attorney will work closely with Rue Gilt Groupe’s in-house legal team on a wide variety of legal matters. The Short Term-Part Time Staff Attorney will be an integral part of the team, contributing to all aspects of the legal needs of the business. Candidates should be able to work independently, be innovative, pay meticulous attention to detail, and be able to work confidently with guidance from the legal team. Key Responsibilities: Lead the drafting, negotiating and completion of a wide variety of contracts and documents for RGG, such as...

ABOUT THE JOB The ACLU seeks applicants for the full-time position of  Staff Attorney, Senior Staff Attorney, or Senior Counsel in the Criminal Law Reform Project of the ACLU’s National office in New York, NY , San Francisco, CA, or Washington, DC. This is a  hybrid role  that has in-office requirements of two (2) days per week or eight  (8) days per month.   This is a 2-year, limited term position.  The Criminal Law Reform Project’s mission is to advocate for the constitutional and civil rights of those impacted by criminal legal systems. We use litigation and advocacy to confront systemic government conduct that fuels the carceral state and police abuse, and oppresses people based on race, class, and other characteristics. CLRP does this work because everyone suspected, accused, or convicted of a crime deserves dignity, fairness, and an opportunity to thrive.    This position is part of a collective bargaining unit. It is...

BronxWorks helps individuals and families improve their economic and social well-being. From toddlers to seniors, we feed, shelter, teach, and support our neighbors to build a stronger Bronx community. In all aspects of our work, BronxWorks strives for the highest ethical and performance standards. We are guided by the belief that people must be treated with dignity and respect, regardless of their present situation or past experiences. We have over 65 locations throughout the Bronx providing a variety of programs that assist in the areas of family, children and youth support, educational services, senior services, homelessness, financial empowerment, and workforce development, among others. With over 50 years of experience supporting Bronx communities, we are an employer of choice for anyone interested in a meaningful career in the social services field. The BronxWorks model aims to break the cycle of poverty by mobilizing the organization’s...

ABOUT THE JOB The ACLU seeks applicants for the full-time position of Staff Attorney, Senior Staff Attorney or Senior Counsel for the Supreme Court Docket in the Legal Department of  the ACLU’s National office in New York, NY, San Francisco, CA, or Washington, DC. This is a  hybrid role  that has in-office requirements of two (2) days per week or eight  (8) days per month. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, with priority given to applications received by March 13, 2026. The ACLU runs one of the country’s most active Supreme Court practices. The ACLU’s National Legal Director is responsible for all ACLU filings in the Supreme Court of the United States, by both the National ACLU and its 54 state affiliates. The ACLU frequently represents parties in matters on the Supreme Court’s certiorari, merits, and emergency dockets, and also frequently files friend-of-the-Court briefs. In recent years, the ACLU’s Supreme Court docket has grown...

Organization Overview: BronxWorks is a leading nonprofit serving Bronx residents for over 50 years. With more than 65 program sites, we provide housing support, youth and senior services, immigration assistance, financial empowerment, and more. Our Legal Services Department works to advance housing justice and prevent displacement for low income tenants across the Bronx. Senior Staff Attorney Opportunity The Tenant Defense Senior Staff Attorney I role provides professional growth opportunities for attorneys with at least three years of experience who are working toward supervisory roles, along with a salary increase above the staff attorney scale. Key Responsibilities Provide comprehensive legal representation to tenants referred to BronxWorks through the Universal Access to Counsel initiative and other referral sources. Litigate in various forums including housing court, appellate courts, and administrative tribunals,...

The Law Graduate/Staff attorney will work in collaboration with this extraordinary coalition of neighborhood organizations and their tenant and community organizers in Brooklyn and Queens. Our mission is to preserve and expand long-term affordable housing for residents and groups of residents who qualify for legal services on an income level basis. The staff attorney will represent low-income tenant associations who face rapid gentrification, harassment, and displacement. Willingness, desire, and ability to attend evening tenant association and community meetings is a requirement. ROLE EXPECTATIONS: Direct Representation of Clients in Legal and Administrative Proceedings - Maintain a caseload of individual and group litigation matters before judicial and administrative forums in the State of New York. Most of CoRe’s litigation is before the Housing Part of the New York City Civil Court. However, staff attorneys may have occasion to represent clients before: the Supreme...

MAJOR PURPOSE OF THE POSITION The Legal Aid Society’s Civil Practice has an opening for a Staff Attorney in the Family/Domestic Violence (DV) Project of the Bronx Neighborhood Office. The Family/DV Project provides comprehensive direct legal assistance to survivors of domestic violence in a broad range of civil matters, including orders of protection, divorces, custody, visitation, child support, spousal support, property rights, and contested divorces. The Family/DV Staff Attorney is expected to represent clients in all five boroughs primarily in family law and matrimonial matters, including contested matrimonials, custody, visitation, orders of protection, child and spousal support matters and uncontested divorces, as well as represent clients in multiple venues, including Supreme, Family, and the Integrated Domestic Violence courts. As part of the Family/DV Practice, the Staff Attorney will also work in conjunction with several community-based organizations that are...

POSITION AVAILABLE: Staff Attorney in the Consumer Debt Law Project OVERVIEW: For more than 50 years, Nassau Suffolk Law Services (NSLS) has been providing free, high- quality legal counsel in civil matters when basic human needs are at stake including: eviction and foreclosure prevention, income maintenance, disability, elder law, healthcare, consumer fraud and more. As the only provider of comprehensive civil legal services on Long Island, our services support thousands of poor and low-income families and individuals who cannot afford an attorney. With the gap separating those who can and cannot afford legal representation widening each day, we work to ensure that everyone has equal access to justice, regardless of their ability to pay. NSLS has a staff over one hundred employees situated in three offices across Long Island. OFFICE LOCATION: Nassau and Suffolk County DUTIES: The Consumer Debt Law Project staff attorney will represent low-income debtors in consumer law...

The Central American Refugee Center (CARECEN) is a non-profit that has served the immigrant community on Long Island for four decades through legal services, community education and advocacy. We seek a passionate and dedicated immigration attorney to join our robust, dynamic and growing legal team with our Office of New American’s Nassau Legal Counsel. The position is a full time, salaried, exempt position. Overview of the Role The Staff Attorney will provide critical legal services to immigrants in Nassau County through direct representation and legal clinics. The attorney will also educate immigrants on their legal rights and changes to immigration law and policy through community seminars and workshops. The attorney will join six other members of CARECEN's ONA Legal Counsel program, which is an integral part of CARECEN's robust, dynamic legal team. Primary Duties Screen, counsel, and represent immigrants in affirmative and defensive cases in accordance with...

BronxWorks is a leading nonprofit serving Bronx residents for over 50 years. With more than 65 program sites, we provide housing support, youth and senior services, immigration assistance, financial empowerment, and more. Our Legal Services Department works to advance housing justice and prevent displacement for low-income tenants across the Bronx. BronxWorks Legal Services – Tenant Defense Program As one of New York City’s newest Right to Counsel providers, our Tenant Defense Program delivers full legal representation to tenants facing eviction. Our modern office—located near Bronx Housing Court and Yankee Stadium—supports a fast‑paced litigation practice grounded in collaboration, community engagement, and racial equity Tenant Defense Law Graduates & Staff Attorneys – BronxWorks (Right to Counsel) BronxWorks seeks passionate law graduates and newly admitted attorneys to join our growing Tenant Defense team. This role offers immediate...

The Legal Aid Society’s Civil Practice is seeking staff attorneys for our city-wide Immigration Law Unit (ILU) to assist with detained removal defense. As part of an initiative called the New York Immigrant Family Unity Project (NYIFUP), ILU represents detained clients in removal and bond proceedings before the Immigration Court, the Board of Immigration Appeals, related proceedings before the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”) and, when appropriate, in Family Court proceedings. NYIFUP is the nation’s first universal representation program for immigrants detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and is a collaboration between Legal Aid, Brooklyn Defender Services, and The Bronx Defenders. ILU also represents NYIFUP clients who are released from custody and continue to meet income eligibility requirements. ILU is a recognized leader in providing high-quality representation to non-citizens in all five boroughs of...

Join a team where your professional growth directly impacts vulnerable families across New York City by providing crucial housing services and eviction prevention legal support that helps clients achieve permanent, stable housing. At NAICA, we’re committed to being an employer of choice by attracting top talent, fostering an engaging work environment, and providing the support you need to advance your career while making a meaningful difference in people’s lives. Title : Supervising Attorney Location : New York Metropolitan Area Reports to : Director of Legal Services Pay Range: $133,000 - $133,000 per year FLSA Status : Exempt Status : Full-time (35 hour per week) Role Summary : The Supervising Attorney will supervise a team of staff attorneys and paralegals. The Supervising Attorney holds a leadership role, they are responsible for training and mentoring the legal. The Supervising Attorney needs to have strong management skills, experience...

Full Time or Part Time Position Long Island Advocacy (LIAC) is an established nonprofit organization that provides education advocacy and legal support to students attending school on Long Island. Our staff works together to advocate for the rights of all students regardless of disability, gender, legal status or participation in the juvenile justice system. LIAC is seeking a staff attorney that will be part of a team supporting youth in Nassau County dealing with challenging behaviors and Code of Conduct violations at school. This staff attorney will also provide legal and/or technical assistance to families who meet criteria of the Long Island Advocacy Center. Responsibilities: Provide legal guidance to education advocates; Participate and assist in intakes over the phone and in person; Represent minors at Hearings such as Superintendent Hearings and/or Impartial Hearings Collaborate with staff in the analysis and creation of legal strategies;...

The Legal Aid Society’s Civil Practice is seeking experienced and talented lawyers with a deep commitment to public interest practice and policy to join a dedicated Housing team as a Supervising Attorney in our Housing Justice Unit – Tenant Defense. The Housing Justice Unit- Tenant Defense has community-based offices in each of the boroughs. The Supervising Attorney could be placed in any of our Neighborhood Offices. The Civil Practice’s Housing Justice Unit – Tenant Defense provides both eviction defense and affirmative litigation strategies to help advocate for our clients. Our Housing practice handles a broad range of individual tenant representation at the trial and appellate levels, including holdovers, nonpayment proceedings, HPs, Housing Authority administrative hearings, and state and federal court appeals, while our Housing Justice Unit - Group Advocacy practice represents low-income tenant associations and tenant groups in proceedings to enforce the...

The Legal Aid Society’s Civil Practice is seeking an experienced and talented lawyer with a deep commitment to public interest practice and policy to join a dedicated Housing team as the Supervising Attorney of the Elder Law Unit-Bronx. The ideal candidate will also have a passion for representing the most vulnerable clients and in multidisciplinary collaboration ensuring the seniors we represent not only preserve their tenancies but continue to live in the community healthy and safely long after their eviction case has ended. The Legal Aid Society has a long history of providing eviction defense services to seniors. The Elder Law Unit (ELU) is a city-wide unit with teams in both the Bronx and Brooklyn. The ELU is comprised of a multi-disciplinary team, including attorneys, social workers and paralegal casehandlers, specializing in eviction defense for seniors. The ELU recognizes that the preservation of housing for a senior often involves many intersecting...

POSITION DESCRIPTION The Ithaca office of LawNY® seeks to fill an opening for a Supervising Attorney in our General Law Unit.  The Attorney will provide direct legal representation to claimants appealing denials of Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Social Security Disability (SSDI) claims. This work will include administrative appeals within the Social Security Administration appeals process, as well as litigation in federal court. In addition, the Attorney will supervise up to five staff members, consisting of Staff Attorneys and Paralegals who are providing direct representation to clients on government benefits issues (SSI/SSDI, unemployment insurance, public assistance and SNAP), elder law, and education law. We encourage applicants with a wide range of substantive legal experience to apply. We expect those who fill this position will grow and adapt their practice to the needs of the community and the organization, and place an emphasis on supervision...

MAJOR PURPOSE OF THE POSITION The Legal Aid Society’s Civil Practice is seeking an experienced lawyer with a commitment to public interest practice to join a dedicated team of managers as a Supervising Attorney of the Queens Neighborhood Office’s Housing Justice Unit – Tenant Defense. The Civil Practice’s Housing Justice Program engages in both eviction defense and affirmative litigation and handles a broad range of individual tenant representation at the trial and appellate levels, including holdovers, nonpayment proceedings, HPs, Housing Authority administrative hearings, and state and federal court appeals. The Tenant Defense practice primarily handles eviction prevention cases through the Universal Access (often referred to as the Right to Counsel) program in Housing Court. The Supervising Attorney will primarily supervise staff, provide training, and facilitate intake. The Supervising Attorney participates in...

MAJOR PURPOSE OF THE POSITION The Legal Aid Society’s Civil Practice is seeking an experienced and talented lawyer with a deep commitment to public interest practice and policy to join a dedicated team of managers as a Supervising Attorney of the Brooklyn Neighborhood Office’s Housing Justice Unit – Tenant Defense. The Civil Practice’s Housing Justice Program engages in both eviction defense and affirmative litigation and handles a broad range of individual tenant representation at the trial and appellate levels, including holdovers, nonpayment proceedings, HPs, Housing Authority administrative hearings, and state and federal court appeals. The Tenant Defense practice primarily handles cases through the Universal Access (often referred to as the Right to Counsel) program in Housing Court. The Supervising Attorney, in conjunction with the Director of Housing and the supervisory team, will be responsible for the smooth and effective day-to-day...