Job Description

The Legal Aid Society's Civil Practice is seeking a Staff Attorney for the Housing Group Advocacy Project in the Brooklyn and Queens offices. The Housing Group Advocacy Project is an anti-displacement and tenant protection project focusing on supporting New York City communities facing rapid gentrification in the five boroughs of New York City.

The Staff Attorney will work with tenant associations, community-based organizations, government officials, and pro bono attorneys to help stabilize client communities by preventing the harassment and displacement of tenants, assisting tenants obtain repairs and essential services, and otherwise enforce and expand tenant rights. The Staff Attorney may be required to work in more than one community or borough depending on changing client needs and priorities; is required to handle tenant and community group representation, bring affirmative litigation to enforce tenant or housing ri...