Staff Attorney (6-Month Contract)

Description:

Job Announcement:
Legal Assistance the Elderly (LAE) is looking for an attorney to join our staff for a 6-month period. This position will be split between the Housing/Eviction Defense team and the Care Court team depending on experience and legal needs.
Housing Team: We provide a vital service, aggressively representing tenants who are seniors or have disabilities and are threatened with losing their homes. Sixty percent of LAE's clients face housing threats, including evictions, terminations of subsidies, unlawful rent increases, denials of necessary modifications, extra-judicial evictions, and harassment. LAE is part of San Francisco's Tenant Right to Counsel collaboration, providing free, full-scope representation to tenants facing Unlawful Detainer actions. This collaboration comprises the largest part of our housing work. You will work with a very experienced team representing clients throughout their cases, beginning with pre-trial motions, through discovery, and at trial.
Care Court Team:
Community Assistance, Recovery, and Empowerment (Care) Court is a new framework to get people with mental health and substance use disorders the support, services, and care they need. Care Court connects a person struggling with untreated mental illness – and often also substance use challenges – with a court-ordered Care Plan or voluntary Care agreement for up to 24 months. Each plan is managed by a care team in the community and can include clinically prescribed, individualized interventions with several supportive services, medication, and a housing plan. The client-centered approach also includes a legal representative and supporter to help make self-directed care decisions in addition to their full clinical team.???
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LAE seeks a dedicated and determined attorney who will provide representation to clients navigating the Care Court system.? Our legal representation will work as part of an interdisciplinary team that will collaborate in case assessment, strategy and providing services. This position has a strong preference for having experience working with clients who are severely mentally ill, specifically with untreated schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders and disorders on the schizophrenia spectrum, and/or clients in supportive housing. We would like the advocate to have excellent organizational skills and a willingness to work collaboratively across legal and social work disciplines.?
Minimum Qualifications:

• Member State Bar of California
• Strong written, verbal and interviewing skills
• Patient, flexible and kind
• Works well in a team
• Ability to independently manage a caseload?

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