Job o’ the Day: Staff Attorney with the Homelessness Prevention Project at the Inner City Law Center
Inner City Law Center (ICLC) is the only provider of legal services on Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles, California. The nonprofit law firm combats slum housing while developing strategies to end homelessness. ICLC’s main projects include housing litigation, homelessness prevention, housing policy and the Homeless Veterans Project.
From the PSJD job listing:
ICLC is currently searching for a full-time Staff Attorney in our Homelessness Prevention Project focusing on eviction defense litigation. This position is part of a pilot program where ICLC represents low-income parties in eviction defense cases under the Sargent Shriver Civil Counsel Act (California Government Code Section 68650 et seq.). The pilot program is designed to ensure unrepresented parties in certain civil cases affecting housing, a basic human need, have meaningful access to justice and to address substantial inequities that can result when parties cannot afford the cost of retaining a lawyer. The Staff Attorney will provide legal counsel, advice, and representation to low-income individuals facing eviction, and will work with an eviction defense team including attorneys and paralegals handling caseloads related to unlawful detainer (eviction) matters. In addition to carrying their own case load, the Staff Attorney will also work closely with volunteer attorneys from private law firms who are providing pro bono representation to clients facing eviction. This includes case assessment, litigation and advocacy on behalf of our clients seeking to avoid eviction and homelessness.
Essential duties and responsibilities include: Interviewing clients, negotiations with opposing counsel, discovery, motions, unlawful detainer trials and possible appellate work. Reviewing documents to identify and assess various legal issues, negotiating and advocating on behalf of clients, drafting, reviewing, editing and preparing pleadings, briefs, correspondence, and discovery requests and responses, representing clients at mediations and settlement conferences. Other duties may be assigned.
Successful applicants will be members of the California bar. Experience in litigation or housing law including eviction defense is preferred but not required. For more information, view the full job listing at PSJD.org (log-in required)!