Job Opportunity: New York Lawyers For The Public Interest

New York Lawyers for the Public Interest (NYLPI), a non-profit civil rights legal organization. NYLPI pioneered the practice of community lawyering in the five boroughs of New York City. With every case and every campaign, NYLPI continues to elaborate an approach to working with marginalized communities that is ambitious, participatory, and dynamic.

NYLPI activism focuses on issues of racial equality and disability rights. In NYLPI's health justice program, a community organizer and a team of attorneys represent and provide support to community-based organizations mobilizing to rid the New York health care system of racism, language barriers and anti-immigrant bias. The disability rights work focuses on defending and promoting the civil rights of people with disabilities in transportation, education, health care, and other aspects of life in New York City, as well as ensuring that people with disabilities are able to live with independence and dignity in the community and not restricted to institutional settings. In their environmental justice project, NYLPI takes on issues ranging from the overburdening of low-income communities of color with garbage facilities, to the presence of dangerous toxins in public schools, to the development of a green energy policy that places social equality front and center. Finally, NYLPI’s renowned Pro Bono Clearinghouse connects community organizations throughout NYC with pro bono attorneys from the City’s largest law firms.

NYLPI is currently seeking applications for:

• Staff attorney -- Disability Rights
• Staff attorney -- Health Justice
• Staff attorney -- Education and Disability Rights
• Staff attorney -- Environmental Justice
• 2012 post-graduate fellowship
  

Please visit CSO's Symplicity site for application details and requirements.