Job o' the Day: Lead the Nation’s Largest Asian American & Pacific Islander Legal & Civil Rights Organization
The Los Angeles-based Asian Pacific American Legal Center (APALC), a member of the Asian American Center for Advancing Justice, is looking for a Litigation Director to help provide vision for as well as to manage and expand APALC’s impact litigation work.
APALC’s mission to advocate for civil rights, provide legal services and education, and build coalitions to positively influence and impact Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and to create a more equitable and harmonious society. Annually, APALC serves more than 15,000 clients.
The Litigation Director will be responsible for the overall development of strategic litigation, including identifying broad patterns of abuse or other systemic rights violations and developing strategies to address these patterns of mistreatment as well as fundraising and relationship building.
Additionally, the Litigation Director will lead a team of civil rights professionals, with a focus on serving indigent clients in the Asian American and Pacific Islander community in a variety of substantive legal areas such as worker’s rights, education, race and national origin discrimination and consumer law.
Sounds like a great gig, right?!
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