Housing Paralegal/Legal Assistant (Bilingual Spanish-speaking)
Open Door Legal
Housing Paralegal/Legal Assistant (Bilingual Spanish-speaking)Full-time, ExemptHybrid, (at least three days in office)About Us:“It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson MandelaAt Open Door Legal (ODL), we’re pioneering the country’s first system of universal access to civil legal representation to dramatically reduce poverty and prove that the law really can belong to all of us. To achieve this ambitious goal, we’ve created an award-winning and best-in-class legal aid organization full of passionate, motivated, gritty, thoughtful, and team-oriented people. We believe that injustice is the heart of poverty, and we’re looking for someone to join us in having a systemic impact on how we, as a society, ensure justice for all. We are currently based in San Francisco.Overview of Position:We are hiring a Bilingual Spanish-speaking Housing Paralegal/Legal Assistant to provide critical support to our housing team. We help low-income families stay in their homes, obtain housing, prevent homelessness, and ensure landlords address uninhabitable conditions. Even with positive legal outcomes, our clients can face a lot of confusion, fear, and anxiety over the next steps regarding their housing and cases. The Housing Paralegal/Legal Assistant is going to be the main point of contact for helping our Spanish-speaking clients navigate their legal journey with us as well as being a crucial part of building successful cases. Overall, this position is intended to be a challenging yet extremely rewarding experience for someone looking to make a difference in clients’ lives with an innovative, results-oriented, and fast-growing organization.Day-to-day tasks include: providing basic rights advice (with attorney supervision), in-person and remote oral interpretation and written translation (both English to Spanish and Spanish to English), assisting with intakes, completing court forms for clients’ cases, triaging potential clients, coordinating timely service of process, physically filing documents at San Francisco Superior Court, communicating case progress to clients, and follow-up communications with clients including drafting letters and other correspondence.You will be the paralegal/legal assistant for the affirmative housing legal practice and provide Spanish interpretation and translation assistance for the team, working with multiple attorneys. The work is fast-paced and will require you to be organized, think critically and dynamically, and demonstrate empathy and awareness in understanding the needs of our community.This position will be in the office three days per week. We are flexible about your location preferences between our four offices in Bayview, Excelsior, Sunset, and Western Addition. You will report directly to our Managing Housing Attorney but will also work closely with our housing team.Responsibilities:
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Starting compensation for a legal assistant is $70,500-$86,500; for a paralegal, it’s $72,500-$88,500.Benefits:
Applications submitted prior to April 17, 2024 will receive priority consideration.Ideal Start Date: As soon as possibleOpen Door Legal is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state, and local law including the San Francisco Fair chance Ordinance.We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please let us know at whitney [at] opendoorlegal [dot] org.
San Francisco, CA
Tue, 09 Apr 2024 22:24:11 GMT
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