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Job Title: Staff Attorney #242 Pittsburgh Office
Department: Legal Services
Reports to: Managing Attorney - Housing

Central Minnesota Legal Services (CMLS) is seeking a full-time supervising attorney for its St. Cloud office.

STAFF ATTORNEY – Fellowship Opportunity

Job Title: Staff Attorney #241 Pittsburgh Office
Department: Legal Services
Reports to: Managing Attorney - Housing

Neighborhood Legal Services is a non-profit organization that secures justice and resolves
fundamental legal problems for those who are low-income and vulnerable in Allegheny, Beaver,
Butler, and Lawrence Counties by providing high-quality legal services and community legal
education. Founded in 1966, NLS has provided civil legal aid to more than 1.2 million of our
low-income neighbors in need of legal assistance .
The Neighborhood Legal Services staff attorneys are to provide the highest quality of legal
representation and handle all functions related to case work in a high-volume, general law
practice. Legal representation may include providing advice, limited services, referral, and/or
extended representation.

Fellowship Details:

The MLK, Jr. Fellow will work as a staff attorney to provide legal representation and address
legal issues related to housing insecurity including eviction prevention and other legal
barriers to housing stability. The position will require courtroom appearances as well as
phone advice and consultation.
Additionally, the MLK, Jr. Fellow will assist PLAN, Inc. to advance the priority initiatives which
includes, but is not limited, to in-person and virtual training facilitation.
JOB SUMMARY:

In this role, the staff attorney will provide legal representation and address legal issues related
to housing insecurity including eviction prevention and other legal barriers to housing stability.
This position will provide full service at the Magistrate level in the Lawyer of the Day Program.
The legal areas may change as client needs and funding requirements change.

NLS secures justice and resolves fundamental legal problems for those who are low-income and vulnerable in Allegheny, Beaver, Butler, and Lawrence Counties by providing high-quality legal services and community legal education. Founded in 1966, NLS has provided civil legal aid to more than 1.2 million of our low-income neighbors in need of legal assistance.

Job Title: Staff Attorney #240 Pittsburgh Office
Department: Legal Services
Reports to: Managing Attorney

JOB SUMMARY:
The Staff Attorney - Family Law, provides the highest quality of legal representation and handles all functions related to case work in a high-volume, general law practice. This work involves providing legal representation to crime victims seeking relief under the Sexual Violence or Intimidation Protection Act and the Protection from Abuse Act; in need of representation with custody matters which will improve victim safety and the safety and well-being of the victim’s children; and who may require representation on housing, expungement, and consumer matters.

Legal representation may include providing advice, limited services, referral, and/or extended representation. The Staff Attorney is specially trained in domestic and sexual violence dynamics and trauma and works with attorneys, paralegals, social workers, law students, domestic violence advocates, and others to ensure that the emergency needs of each applicant are being explored and pursued.