The Goddard Riverside Law Project provides free legal services and organizing support to low-income individuals, families, and groups of tenants in the west side of Manhattan. Our mission is to empower tenants and preserve affordable housing through advocacy, legal representation, relationship building, and grassroots education. We aim to protect tenants’ rights and hold bad actors accountable while working towards establishing pro-tenant laws and sound housing policy through city and statewide coalition work. To these ends, we integrate tenant voices and collaborate with the community, particularly SRO tenants and marginalized populations.

Reporting to the Executive Director, himself an experienced public interest attorney, the Director of Legal Advocacy will lead and manage the diverse activities of a 20+ person civil legal services program with dozens of significant pro bono partnerships. She/he must be a strong manager and able to effectively mentor and guide a committed group of attorneys and legal advocates. Lenox Hill prides itself on its holistic approach to serving its clients’ myriad needs, which encourages staff to think expansively about service integration as a key part of the solution. The Director of Legal Advocacy will work collaboratively with all of Lenox Hill Neighborhood House’s social and educational programs, including two senior centers, a care management program for homebound older adults, a supportive housing residence for adults with mental illness, a women’s mental health shelter, an early childhood center and more.

CAMBA Legal Services (CLS) has provided free, high-quality legal representation and advice to New Yorkers facing eviction and foreclosure, fighting high consumer debt, seeking U.S. residency and surviving domestic violence for more than 20 years. CLS uses its diverse resources to offer holistic representation and advice. In particular, the Staten Island Housing Unit preserves affordable housing for Staten Island’s low-income communities through representation of low-income individuals and families throughout Staten Island who are facing threats of eviction, harassment, or issues of habitability.

CAMBA Legal Services (CLS) has provided free, high-quality legal representation and advice to New Yorkers facing eviction and foreclosure, fighting high consumer debt, seeking U.S. residency and surviving domestic violence for more than 20 years. CLS uses its diverse resources to offer holistic representation and advice. In particular, the Housing Unit preserves affordable housing for Brooklyn and Staten Island’s low-income communities through representation of low-income individuals and families throughout Brooklyn and Staten Island who are facing threats of eviction, harassment, or issues of habitability.

The Legal Aid Society, the nation's oldest and largest social justice legal services organization, is seeking dedicated and passionate entry-level Housing staff attorneys in the Civil Practice. The Housing Unit handles a broad range of tenant representation at the trial and appellate levels, including holdovers, nonpayment proceedings, administrative hearings, and affirmative litigation in State and Federal courts. There are openings for Staff Attorneys in all five boroughs.

The Legal Aid Society's Civil Practice is seeking experienced and talented lawyers with a deep commitment to public interest practice and policy to join a dedicated team of managers, staff attorneys, social workers, supervisors and support personnel as a Supervising Attorney of the Government Benefits work of Housing Attorneys and Paralegal Casehandlers in the Bronx, Brooklyn and Staten Island offices.

The Legal Aid Society's Civil Practice has experienced Staff Attorney positions available in the Housing Unit. The Housing Unit handles a broad range of individual and group tenant representation at the trial and appellate levels, including holdovers, nonpayment proceedings, administrative hearings, and affirmative litigation in state and federal courts. The Staff Attorney will also work with tenant associations, tenant organizers, community-based organizations, partner legal services agencies, and pro bono attorneys.

The Legal Aid Society's Civil Practice is seeking a Staff Attorney for the Housing Group Advocacy Project in the Brooklyn, Harlem, Bronx, and Queens offices. The Housing Group Advocacy Project is an anti-displacement and tenant protection project focusing on supporting specific 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 and pro bono attorneys to help stabilize client communities by preventing harassment of tenants and tenant displacement as well as assisting tenants with obtaining repairs and essential services.

The Legal Aid Society's Civil Practice is seeking an experienced and talented lawyer with a deep commitment to public interest practice and policy to join a dedicated team of managers and staff of attorneys, supervisors, and support personnel as the Supervising Attorney of the Bronx Housing Program. The Housing Program has courthouse, senior, and community-based offices.

The Legal Aid Society's Civil Practice is seeking an experienced and talented lawyer with a deep commitment to public interest practice and policy to join a dedicated team of managers and staff of attorneys, supervisors, and support personnel as the Supervising Attorney of the Manhattan Housing Program. The Housing Program has courthouse, senior, and community-based offices.

Mobilization for Justice, Inc. (MFJ), a non-profit legal services organization that provides free civil legal services to low-income New Yorkers, is seeking a staff attorney for its Consumer Rights and Foreclosure Prevention Projects. The attorney will be part of two projects that use a multi-prong approach to providing legal services and effecting reform in the consumer and foreclosure law area, including: defending debt collection and foreclosure actions; initiating affirmative/impact litigation; working in coalition with advocacy groups on policy issues; providing testimony and comments on proposed legislation and regulations; conducting trainings; and communicating with elected officials and the media.

Reporting to an MFJ Director of Litigation, the Special Litigation Supervisor will work with MFJ staff in its four overarching practice areas (Housing, Disability and Aging Rights, Economic Justice and Children’s Rights) to identify problems affecting MFJ’s client base, including issues relevant to pursuing racial justice, that would benefit from impact litigation and law reform work. The unit will supplement MFJ’s litigation docket, not supplant the affirmative litigation currently ongoing in the various practices, and will serve as a resource and back-up as appropriate. The Special Litigation Supervisor will supervise one to two staff attorneys who will be hired as the project develops. MFJ has an active and involved board of directors who are available to co-counsel as appropriate.

Mobilization for Justice, Inc. (MFJ), a non-profit legal services organization that provides free civil legal services to low-income New Yorkers, is seeking a staff attorney for its Foreclosure Prevention Project. The attorney will be part of a team that represents homeowners in New York Supreme Court in Queens, Richmond and Kings Counties, prosecutes federal fair housing and other mortgage-related actions, works in coalition with advocacy groups city- and state-wide on policy issues, analyzes and provides testimony on proposed foreclosure-related legislation; conducts trainings for lawyers, housing counselors, and homeowners, and communicates regularly with elected officials and the media.

Queens Legal Services (QLS) seeks a supervising attorney to join our Housing Rights Project (HRP) in a vibrant community-based civil legal advocacy organization in Queens.

Brooklyn A seeks an attorney to join its Preserving Affordable Housing Program who will represent low income tenants in Brooklyn facing eviction in court and before administrative agencies and bringing affirmative litigation. They will handle a full caseload of representation non-payment, holdover, HP, 7A, and harassment proceedings in Housing Court, which involves frequent motion practice, discovery, and depositions, communication with clients, negotiations with opposing counsel and advocacy with outside agencies on behalf of clients.

Each Staff Attorney is a part of a team of lawyers, social workers and legal assistants
who represent city employees and their families in connection with civil legal matters
covered by the MELS benefit.

The Veteran Advocacy Project (VAP) seeks an attorney to lead our civil legal services, both overseeing and taking on housing and benefits cases, and working with the executive director to build out the practice.