Senior Staff Attorney Position Available
Established in 1988, the Georgia Resource Center is a non-profit law office with a national reputation for innovative, spirited, and unrelenting representation of its death-sentenced clients.
The Center is responsible for ensuring that Georgia's indigent death row inmates are adequately represented in state and federal post-conviction proceedings.

Qualifications:
$ Member of the Georgia Bar or willing to seek admission at the earliest opportunity;
$ Excellent writing and research skills;
$ Understanding of mental health and mental retardation issues and protocol;
$ Experience in Capital litigation; Capital post-conviction litigation preferred.

Duties:
$ Providing writing and case strategy assistance to staff attorneys;
$ Undertaking all aspects of habeas corpus litigation including digesting record, identifying habeas issues as well investigative and expert needs, legal research, drafting pleadings, working with investigators and experts, conducting limited investigation and depositions, and appearing in court;

$ Providing legal and investigative assistance to pro bono attorneys;
$ Preparing expert and lay witnesses and presenting evidence at state evidentiary hearings..

Salary:
$ Negotiable based upon experience.

Process:
$ Interested candidates should send a cover letter discussing their special experience and talents and explaining their interest in death penalty work, resume, professional references and brief writing sample to:
Mary Shellman
Georgia Resource Center
303 Elizabeth Street, N.E.
Atlanta, Georgia 30307
(404) 222-9202
e-mail: georgiaresource@mindspring.com
$ Resumes accepted until position filled.

The Georgia Resource Center is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.