Staff Attorney

Legal Aid Society seeks diverse and dynamic applicants for a 24-month, full-time attorney position at Legal Aid Society as an Equal Justice Works Fellow in the Violence Intervention and Prevention Program.

Legal Aid Society has been competitively selected by Equal Justice Works as an implementing partner of Equal Justice Works’ Crime Victims Advocacy Program (CVAP), funded by the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Office for Victims of Crime (OVC).

The Violence Intervention and Prevention Project (The VIP Project or VIPP) of the Legal Aid Society (LAS) will provide legal information, representation, and advocacy to interrupt and redress violent crime among Black, male survivors of violence between the ages of 15 and 24 who are residents of Louisville’s historically black neighborhoods. Outreach activities will be centered on the neighborhoods surrounding the Society’s West Louisville Neighborhood Office.

The Fellow primarily will provide advocacy to individuals referred to the program from partners in these neighborhoods. The VIPP will partner with credible messengers through the Louisville Office of Safe and Health Neighborhoods and community anti-violence groups coordinated through that office who already provide wrap-around and violence intervention programs to victims of violence, their families, and their communities.

Despite the significant expansion of victim assistance services and resources in recent years, access to high-quality civil legal services and victims’ rights enforcement remains limited, especially for Black, Indigenous and other People of Color (BIPOC) and other individuals from communities with high levels of disinvestment.

The Crime Victims Advocacy Program will increase legal assistance to crime victims in BIPOC communities by mobilizing and training a network of 21 committed attorney Fellows and 21 law student Fellows who will serve at selected host organizations across the country, expanding the capacity of participating host organizations to provide legal assistance to victims of crime in BIPOC communities and communities with high levels of disinvestment, through the provision of civil legal assistance and victims’ rights enforcement.