Legal Aid Society
Employment Law Center
San Francisco, CA
The Legal Aid Society Employment Law Center seeks to improve the working lives of disadvantaged workers, utilizing an array of strategies including impact litigation, direct representation, public education and legislative advocacy. The Society's docket covers a wide range of law reform and impact cases in the areas of race, gender, disability, and national origin discrimination as well as cases dealing with wage theft issues.
Through its programs, the LAS-ELC strengthens the economic self-sufficiency of at-risk families, racial and ethnic minorities, immigrants, single mothers, victims of domestic abuse, disabled people, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender inidviduals. Through our Workers' Rights Clinics, the Society provides information and legal assistance on employment matters concerning low-income workers. Nearly 3,000 people a year are served by four weekly clinics in San Francisco, Berkeley, and San Jose, with the assistance of more than 200 volunteer attorneys, law students, and translators.
Assigned to one or two attorneys, the Fellow would be primarily resonsible for legal research and writing on current and potential cases. Assignments may include litigation memos, pleadings, and collaborative briefs and motions. In addition, tasks related to discovery (deposition preparation, attendance and summarization; witness interviews; propounding and resonding to interrogatories) and trial preparation may also be assigned.
The Fellow would also conduct client intake and interviews over the phone or in person for the program area he/she is working in. The Fellow will participate as an employment counselor at weekly Workers' Rights clinics where she/he will meet a number of volunteer attorneys, most of them from the plaintiffs-side employment bar. Also, the Fellow will be expected to attend the LAS-ELC's popular annual summer program, the Elizabeth J. Cabraser Sumer Brown Bag Lectures in Public Interest Law, which is a series of weekly presentations on current topics in civil and human rights law. Additionally, the Fellow will be encouraged to attend additional workshops or educational seminars made available by other public interest organizations in the Bay Area.
The LAS-ELC actively seeks diversity and welcomes the applications of students from every racial, ethnic and cultural background. Students with bi- and multi-lingual capabilities are strongly preferred. An effort is made to assign the Fellow to work in an area of interest for him/her, and with attorneys whose supervision style will be most effective for the student. The LAS-ELC values the contribution of law clerks and strives to provide a rewarding experience for each student.
The total ten-week stipend for this fellowship will be $4,500.
Address cover letter to:
Elizabeth Kristen, Senior Staff Attorney
The Legal Aid Society - Employment Law Center
180 Montgomery Street, Suite 600
San Francisco, CA 94104
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