Consumer Protection Staff Attorney - Bay Legal, San Francisco, CA

  • 06 Feb 2020 10:50 AM
    Message # 8730917
    Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Are you interested in using your legal skills to address economic inequality and help low-income consumers assert their rights and maintain financial stability? Join BayLegal’s dynamic Consumer Law Practice!

    Bay Area Legal Aid (BayLegal) is committed to ensuring fairness in the civil justice system for the most vulnerable members of our community and addressing systemic inequities that foster intergenerational poverty. Practicing in seven Bay Area counties, BayLegal is the largest provider of free civil legal services in the Bay Area. We help clients protect their livelihoods, their health, and their families. Our clients include the working poor, families with children, foster youth, seniors, immigrants, veterans, and persons with disabilities. Through our regional county offices, our mobile advocacy clinics, and our nationally-recognized Legal Advice Line and Health Consumer Center hotlines, BayLegal’s mission is to prevent domestic violence and sexual assault, increase economic stability, protect consumers, expand access to healthcare, and prevent homelessness. For our clients, BayLegal makes the difference between staying in poverty and thriving toward a brighter future.

     

    POSITION:

    We are seeking an attorney to join our dynamic Consumer Law practice group and to support BayLegal’s mission. Our consumer law practice focuses on halting unfair and deceptive business practices in the area of consumer financial products and on protecting the rights of low-income consumers. As a member of BayLegal’s regional practice, the position involves travel throughout BayLegal’s service areas to address the regional nature of poverty and as necessary for training and broader advocacy.

    As a BayLegal Attorney, you will have the opportunity to:

    • Learn and assist with the diverse legal needs of underserved and vulnerable communities in the Bay Area;
    • Represent low-income consumers in state and federal court in consumer law cases at every stage of litigation, including motions, discovery, ADR, and trials;
    • Staff community-based clinics to provide assistance with consumer protection issues, including student loans, foreclosure, credit reporting, debt collection, and bankruptcy;
    • Identify systemic problems that affect our clients’ rights and address these challenges through affirmative litigation and policy work;
    • Collaborate with the local and national tenant advocacy community;
    • Provide workshops and technical assistance to community partners and client community on housing law, tenants’ rights, and a broad range of civil legal issues;
    • Develop relationships and engage in collaboration with a range of public and private community partners, including governmental agencies, courts, and community based organizations, to ensure integrative services and address systemic barriers facing BayLegal’s client community;
    • Work with BayLegal’s development, grants and contracts, and communications team to promote BayLegal’s mission and resource development; and
    • Engage in other tasks and projects that further the interest of furthering BayLegal’s mission and operations as a non-profit.

    REQUIREMENTS / QUALIFICATIONS / ABOUT THE SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE:

    • Membership in good standing in the California State Bar or eligible for the Multijurisdictional Practice (MJP) Program and willing to sit for the California Bar.
    • Bilingual ability in Spanish preferred
    • Experience in consumer law and/or civil litigation preferred
    • Strong personal work ethic and ability to organize time, manage diverse activities, and meet critical deadlines with minimal supervision
    • Excellent writing, editing, and proof-reading skills, with ability to be detail-oriented
    • Strong interpersonal skills and an ability to work collaboratively with a dynamic team
    • Curious and self-directed with an ability to anticipate what needs to be done
    • Ability to simultaneously manage multiple projects while maintaining a firm grasp of individual project details
    • Humility in working with colleagues and clients across the spectrum of diversity, including race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, immigrant status, religious identity, physical and mental disabilities, and/or limited English proficiency.

     

    COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS

    We offer a diverse, family friendly environment, and compensation based on competitive public interest salaries along with a generous benefits package. BayLegal’s benefits package includes 100% employer covered medical, dental, and life insurance for employees and up to 40-50% for dependents; long term disability insurance; stipends for bilingual employees whose language skills are used in the provision of work tasks; student debt repayment program; dependent childcare employer contribution program and 401k retirement plan following first year. Paid leave policy includes: sick leave; parental leave; 14 holidays each year and vacation (starting at 13 days and increasing with additional years of employment).

    APPLICATIONS:

    BayLegal thrives on our diversity and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a culturally diverse workplace and strongly encourage women, persons of color, LGBTQ individuals, veterans, persons with disabilities, and persons from other underrepresented groups to apply. Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled. Please email the following to our Human Resources Department jobs@baylegal.org (1) cover letter including response to question below (no page limit), (2) resume, (3) references, and (4) writing sample. Please reference Consumer Protection Attorney in the subject of your email.

    As part of your cover letter, please address the following:

    BayLegal’s clients are low- and very low-income members of our communities. They include people of color, LGBTQ+ people, immigrants, seniors, people with lived experiences of homelessness, veterans, people with disabilities, and people from other underrepresented groups. BayLegal is committed to enhancing the provision of our services to all clients, increasing positive client outcomes, and creating an inclusive and respectful workplace in which differences are acknowledged and valued. BayLegal promotes and supports policies that enable us to work effectively in cross-cultural situations with our clients, coworkers, and the community.

    How do you think your personal background or experiences, professional or otherwise, have prepared you to: (1) serve our diverse client base effectively, (2) work effectively with colleagues from different backgrounds than your own, (3) acknowledge the systemic barriers that our clients face, and (4) contribute to our efforts to fight for racial justice? Feel free to think broadly about your response to this question, provide examples, and apply various aspects of your life and personal experiences.


    Last modified: 06 Feb 2020 1:20 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

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