Job o’ the Day: Urban Justice Center – Community Development Project Transactional Legal Fellowship
This job is for our litigation-shy students out there. The Urban Justice Center’s Community Development Project is accepting applications for a 2013 Transactional Legal Fellow.
The Community Development Project strengthens the impact of grassroots organizations in New York City’s low-income and other excluded communities. Currently, transactional legal services work includes land use, community benefits agreements, nonprofit law, corporate governance, federal income tax exemption, for-profit worker cooperative business structuring, and affordable housing.
Applicants with experience working with, in, or on behalf of community-based organizations are strongly encouraged to apply. Applicants must either be admitted to the New York Bar, or sitting for the New York Bar not later than July 2014. Applicants of color and applicants with foreign language abilities, particularly Spanish, are also encouraged to apply.
The deadline to apply is June 13, 2013 (this Thursday!). For more information and application instructions, check out the full job description at PSJD.org (log-in required).