Paralegal or legal assistant

Paralegal / Legal Assistant

Full-Time Position

What is the Good Health Project?

The Good Health Project is a new project, launched in late 2024, that will provide free or low-cost legal representation to healthcare professionals and institutions seeking to provide transgender healthcare in a rapidly-changing legal environment and rising atmosphere of government lawlessness. Our focus will be on advising healthcare providers on how to provide the maximum extent of services allowable by law, avoid over-compliance with the government’s attempts to restrict healthcare services through threats and rhetoric, and avoid litigation. We also provide policy advocacy advice, know-your-rights education, and other services our clients need to continue their provision of care. The Good Health Project works closely with other transgender, LGBTQ, civil rights, health, and legal organizations, and is part of the larger movement to preserve and defend civil rights, democracy, and the rule of law.

What is the job?

The Good Health Project is hiring paralegals or legal assistants to contribute to and support its legal work on behalf of providers of transgender healthcare. The Good Health Project’s paralegals and legal assistants will undertake a diverse variety of activities, including legal and policy research, review of relevant scientific and social science literature, paralegal work on our client matters (including Bluebooking, cite checking, proofreading, and formatting), participation in clients’ advocacy efforts, and administrative work in support of the Project as a whole. Paralegals and legal assistants will report to the Good Health Project’s attorneys, but will also work directly with clients and co-counsel. The responsibilities of the two positions are similar, but a paralegal’s responsibilities will be slightly more focused on supporting our client matters, and a legal assistant’s on supporting the organization.

Prior experience is not required. The positions are excellent for experienced applicants, or for people seeking an entry-level position, especially if they are seeking to decide whether to pursue a law degree.

What are the requirements?

• Excellent research, analysis, writing, and communication skills
• Willingness and ability to learn
• Dedication to transgender rights and commitment to our mission
• Flexibility and creativity to adapt to and to help develop a new workplace in a rapidly-changing law and government environment
• Commitment to collaboration, cooperation, and collegiality
• Ability to work in a professional environment with limited supervision
• Experience with transgender civil rights or transgender health is not required but is a strong plus.

Is there anything else I should know?

We welcome all applicants, as long as you are passionate about our work. People from all backgrounds, ideologies, histories, and levels of experience are encouraged to apply. We are a startup with a collaborative decision making structure and a drive to innovate and grow—your special skills and experience may be just the thing we need!

Work is remote. Schedules are flexible, depending on the needs of the client matters, and set by mutual agreement, with at least four hours required between 10 and 6 Eastern time weekdays. The Good Health Project offers 27 paid days off annually and is closed on federal holidays.

The Good Health Project provides each employee with professional development funds.

The Good Health Project is developing and will offer a comprehensive benefit package including health, life, disability, and family leave insurances and a 401(k). We welcome your input as to what benefits are important to you.

The Good Health Project is a consortium of the Campaign for Southern Equality, GLMA, Trans Health, and the Institute for Health Research and Policy at Whitman-Walker. As a start-up, employment may begin as a short-term contract, for no more than a few months. Financial and navigation assistance will be provided to ensure continuity of benefits like health insurance during this transition.