- Salary
- $70k+/yr
- Location
- Atlanta, Georgia, US
- Workplace
- Remote, Hybrid, Onsite
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- Legal
- Seniority
- Senior
- Source
- BetterTeam
Description
Atlanta Legal Aid Society (“Legal Aid”) seeks a Staff Attorney for its Georgia Senior Legal Unit and its Senior Legal Services Program partnership with the Fulton County Courts Justice Resource Center (JRC). Our non-profit law firm represents low-income persons in a variety of civil legal matters, including family, housing, consumer, employment, health, public benefits, and education law. Georgia Senior Legal Aid provides legal advice, brief service, and referrals to Georgians age 60 and over. The Senior Legal Services Program handles a diverse caseload centered on: housing stability (35%), covering property tax assessments and appeals, homeownership and deeds, tax/mortgage foreclosures and excess funds, and heirs property; probate and estate planning (35%), including basic probate guidance, estate planning advice, and pro bono referrals; consumer protection (10%), involving credit lawsuits, debt relief or bankruptcy, and consumer rights; and public benefits (20%), evenly split across SNAP, Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. The unit currently comprises a managing attorney, three staff attorneys, and three paralegals.
Senior Legal Services Program Responsibilities:
- Consultations: Conduct in-person legal advice sessions at the JRC, and virtual legal advice sessions. Review contracts, brief services negotiation, draft demand letters, and prepare life-planning documents (wills, advance directives, powers of attorney).
- Public Seminars & Materials: Develop and present community education presentations on senior legal topics, to be presented three times per quarter (travel required to community partners for the presentation). Update self-help instruction packets, court forms, and website FAQs.
- Referrals: Screen legal matters and provide referrals to other Atlanta Legal Aid offices and units for possible full representation, and refer to external partners for out-of-scope legal issues.
- Schedule: This portion of the position requires a 20-hour weekly commitment served in a hybrid capacity. Ten hours per week are spent in person at the Fulton County Courthouse JRC across two 5-hour days, conducting walk-in client meetings and telephone consultations on the JRC intake line. The remaining 10 hours per week consist of client telephone consultations and may be completed either remotely or on-site at an Atlanta Legal Aid office.
- Other tasks as assigned.
Georgia Senior Legal Aid Responsibilities:
- Provide such brief legal service in a variety of civil law issues, including housing, consumer, health, public benefits, and life planning, such as medical directives, powers of attorney, wills, and probate.
- Provide accurate legal advice and referrals to older Georgians and their families, with a focus on those seniors who are socially or economically vulnerable.
- Review contracts, draft demand letters, and prepare self-help materials.
- Handle a mixed caseload.
- Schedule: This portion of the position requires a minimum of 17.5 hours per week providing telephone consultations. This may be completed remotely, or at an Atlanta Legal Aid office.
- Other tasks as assigned.
Qualifications:
- Active member in good standing in the State Bar of Georgia (strongly preferred), or eligible to sit for the next Georgia Bar exam.
- Minimum of three years of relevant legal experience.
- Excellent legal writing, analysis, advocacy, and work ethic are required.
- Must possess a working knowledge in a broad range of legal issues and be able to explain sometimes complex concepts to seniors.
- Demonstrated commitment to public service, participation in law school clinics or trial advocacy courses, familiarity with poverty law, previous work with low-income people, and an appreciation for diversity are strongly preferred.
- Excellent interpersonal, communication, listening, and organizational skills.
- Ability to balance compassion and pragmatism.
- Demonstrated ability to work independently and in a collaborative, hybrid team model.
- Proficiency in languages other than English, particularly Spanish, is highly valued.
Salary and Benefits:
- This position offers a salary of $70,250, but may vary (up or down) depending on work experience. Salaries are reviewed annually and may be adjusted based on available funding.
- Generous fringe benefits, including 16 paid holidays in 2026, 6 weeks of paid time off (accruing at 2.5 days per month), and 6 weeks of parental leave (12 weeks after one year).
- Individual health insurance, including optional dental and vision coverage, with partial payment for dependent health insurance.
- Life, long-term, and short-term disability insurance.
- Salary reduction option for a flexible spending account.
- Educational loan reimbursement up to $600 per month (after a set off of other loan reimbursement amounts).
- Voluntary tax-sheltered annuity with a 3% match.
- This position may be eligible for Public Service Loan Forgiveness through the U.S. Department of Education.
- State Bar of Georgia dues and CLE expenses.
- A hybrid work schedule that allows this position to work remotely outside of the ten hours at the JRC.
Application Requirements: Submit a letter of interest, resume, writing sample (advice letter, legal memorandum or brief), official law school transcript (a copy is acceptable pending your order of an official transcript), and the names, phone numbers and email addresses of three professional references (preferably individuals who have supervised or managed your work) as one (1) PDF using our online application system at atlantalegalaid.org/jobs. Only applications with all of the requested documents will be considered for an interview.
Your application will be acknowledged. No phone calls please. For technical difficulties in submitting your application, please email [email protected].
Atlanta Legal Aid Society considers all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, or any other legally protected status.
Skills
Negotiation