Legal Director

The Legal Director provides strategic legal guidance to the organization and its campaigns, ensuring legal research, policy development, and litigation align with organizational goals.

Reports to: Executive Director

Supervises: Staff Attorney

Key Relationships: Executive Team, Staff Attorney, Campaign Managers

Location: Remote

Responsibilities:

• Provide consistent and strategic legal direction to the organization and its campaigns.
• Provide legal research for campaigns and organizational strategy.
• Identify and execute plans for power building for the organization, including developing policy and engaging in litigation.
• Assist workers involved with organizational campaigns with legal matters, including representation when necessary.
• Develop and manage a legal department equipped to support workers and the organization.
• Develop and manage strategic partnerships with attorneys, legal organizations, policy organizations, and unions as necessary to support organizational campaigns.
• Identifies and maintains relationships with outside counsel.
• Conducts training on immigration and worker rights
• Represents workers before USCIS and Immigration courts.

Required Qualifications and Skills:

• J.D.
• Admission to good standing with at least one state bar
• Willingness to seek admission in other states as appropriate
• Experience in grassroots, labor and/or community organizing
• Passion for social justice, building power in multi-racial working-class communities, decolonizing political organizing spaces, empowering grassroots leaders, and enacting impactful socio-economic policies towards long-term systemic changes
• Proven ability to handle projects, set priorities, manage details, and follow through independently
• Flexibility and a willingness to take on an array of competing tasks.