Job o' the Day: LawNY Lawyer needed in Ithaca
By Lauren Forbes
Legal Assistance of Western New York, Inc.® (LawNY®) seeks an Equal Justice Works AmeriCorps Legal Fellow (“AmeriCorps Legal Fellow”) to be housed at our Ithaca, New York office. Based on Equal Justice Works AmeriCorps’ guidelines, the term of service will begin in early August, 2011 for one year (with a possible renewal for one more year).
POSITION DESCRIPTION: The AmeriCorps Legal Fellows housed at LawNY®’s 
Ithaca office will help build capacity by strengthening LawNY®’s relationship with volunteer law students and pro bono attorneys, and by providing direct legal services to clients with prisoner re-entry, employment law, and matrimonial law issues. The AmeriCorps Legal Fellow will be the primary liaison between LawNY® and Cornell University Law School, and will work cooperatively with the other AmeriCorps Legal Fellows to create placement opportunities at LawNY® and other public interest law firms, and to recruit volunteers, across New York State and nationally, to fill those positions. The AmeriCorps Legal Fellow will staff the Ithaca divorce and prisoner re-entry clinics, will provide direct representation in matrimonial cases, prisoner reentry cases, employment law cases, and other cases arising from the clinics, and will collaborate with a number of community organizations in the Ithaca area that are working on these issues. It is estimated that the Fellow’s time will be spent 30% on community outreach and clinics, 30% on pro bono recruitment and management, and 40% on case management and direct representation.
LawNY® is a not-for-profit law firm established to provide access to the justice system to lowincome people and other vulnerable populations who have civil legal problems. LawNY® serves a 14 county area in central and western New York through seven regional offices located in Geneva, Ithaca, Rochester, Elmira, Bath, Olean and Jamestown. In 2010, LawNY® closed 6,668 legal cases benefitting a total of 15,901 people. LawNY® presently operates a wide variety of civil legal services projects, including a disability advocacy project, a seniors legal services project, a homelessness intervention project, a domestic violence project, a foreclosure prevention project, a pro se divorce clinic program, an employment law/prisoner reentry project, and a nutrition outreach and education project.
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