Job Opportunity: Community Legal Aid

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Community Legal Aid (CLA), a non-profit legal services program providing free civil legal assistance to eligible low-income and elderly clients in Central and Western Massachusetts, seeks an attorney to work for a one-year period on foreclosure matters for at-risk homeowners in the four western counties of Massachusetts. The attorney, whose position is funded by a one-year grant, will assess homeowner cases for fair lending violations, file cases for individual homeowners to prevent foreclosure, assist in the loan modification process, and help victims of mortgage rescue scams. In addition, the attorney will engage in intensive community outreach and education on fair lending, mortgage rescue schemes, and foreclosure defense strategies. The attorney will also assist in the preparation of periodic grant reports. It is anticipated that the attorney will be based in CLA’s Springfield office, but will also spend time in the program’s other western Mass. offices as clients’ needs dictate.

QUALIFICATIONS: Admission to Mass. Bar, or eligibility to sit for next Mass. Bar examination, or entitlement to practice under a Mass. practice rule is required. Experience in foreclosure prevention work desirable. Fluency in Spanish desirable. CLA offers a liberal fringe benefits package.

Send resumes to: Sarah Loy, Community Legal Aid, 405 Main Street, Worcester, Massachusetts 01608-1735, or e-mail sloy@laccm.org. Equal Opportunity Employer.