Brooklyn Legal Services Corporation A (Brooklyn A) seeks an attorney, with at least 5 years experience, to work in its Preserving Affordable Housing Program, Group Representation Unit, which brings affirmative litigation and fair housing cases on behalf of low-income tenants in Brooklyn. Since 1968, Brooklyn A has provided free legal services for low-income residents and organizations of Brooklyn, pursuing a uniquely neighborhood-based mission of justice, empowerment and community development.

Queens Legal Services (QLS) seeks two staff attorneys to join our Housing Rights Project in a vibrant community-based civil legal advocacy organization in Queens. The staff attorneys will join a vibrant practice in the heart of Southeast Queens, serving low-income tenants throughout the borough. We are looking for candidates who are excited to work in a fast-paced environment on housing-related matters, including landlord/tenant actions, eviction defense and affirmative litigation on behalf of tenants. The attorneys will be expected to work closely with community-based organizations and conduct weekly, evening and weekend outreach and off-site intake with our partners.

The staff attorney will join Brooklyn A’s Preserving Affordable Housing team. The work involves representing individuals and families facing eviction in court and before administrative agencies with advocacy based on legal research, drafting documents, pleadings, motions, and briefs with knowledge of legal procedures to effectively counsel clients and insure the best possible outcome in each case. Staff Attorneys will handle a full caseload of full representation non-payment and holdover 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. 

RiseBoro Legal Empowerment and Assistance Program (LEAP), seeks a Staff Attorney to further LEAP’s mission of providing underserved low-income residents in Brooklyn with high quality, free legal services and assistance designed to preserve safe and affordable housing, and prevent needless homelessness by representing tenants facing illegal or unnecessary evictions, displacement, and tenant harassment. RiseBoro/LEAP is a uniquely holistic community based housing organization that provides clients with brief legal advice, full representation in housing court and other administrative agencies, tenant organizing, and tenants' rights workshops.

Queens Legal Services (QLS) seeks a full-time staff attorney to coordinate Legal Hand Queens, a storefront community legal resource center operated in partnership with the Center for Court Innovation (CCI). Legal Hand is one of the Access to Justice Initiatives implemented by NYS Court’s Permanent Commission on Access to Justice. Legal Hand currently operates in Queens, Bronx and Brooklyn. http://www.legalhand.org

Staten Island Legal Services (across the street from the ferry), is part of Legal Services NYC, the largest provider of free civil legal services in the nation. We are seeking a staff attorney to work in our Housing Unit assisting low-income tenants throughout the borough in avoiding displacement through a range of legal avenues. The attorney will litigate cases in housing court, administrative forums, and other state and federal courts on behalf of people facing eviction, and in affirmative cases challenging landlords, administrative agencies and other actors who threaten Staten Island residents' ability to obtain and retain safe and affordable housing. The work will involve developing expertise in housing court practice, housing programs and subsidies, and public benefits. The attorney will have opportunities to conduct community outreach and to provide trainings to other advocates, tenant associations, community members and community organizations.

After decades of the continued loss of affordable housing in NYC, many low-income New Yorkers face a desperate situation in trying to maintain their housing. Through the work of our Housing Units, Legal Services NYC is at the forefront of the fight to prevent evictions, preserve affordable housing, and ensure that our clients’ apartments are safe.

The Housing Unit, in particular, preserves affording housing for Brooklyn's low-income communities through representation of low-income individuals and families throughout Brooklyn who are facing threats of eviction, harassment, or issues of habitability. Additionally, we advocate on the behalf of clients to retain or attain crucial public benefits that can preserve affordable housing.

CAMBA Legal Services, Inc. (CLS) is the legal services arm of CAMBA, Inc. CLS provides free civil legal services to low-income New Yorkers in the areas of consumer law, foreclosure prevention, immigration, housing law, and domestic violence assistance. In addition to providing direct representation and providing legal advice and counsel to thousands of clients, CAMBA attorneys also engage in legislative advocacy, impact litigation in both state and federal court, provide community education and offer expert training on a wide range of issues, services that allow members of our community improve their lives.

As NYC’s Universal Access initiative continues to expand the Right to Counsel to all low-income New Yorkers facing eviction, NYLAG’s Tenants’ Rights Unit (“TRU”) has an immediate opening for a Supervising Attorney in its Tenants’ Rights Unit (TRU) to supervise attorneys that practice in Brooklyn. We are looking for an experienced attorney with strong leadership and management skills who is passionate about asserting tenants’ rights and is ready to fight hard to defend our client population, which consists primarily of low-income tenants of color threatened with eviction and displacement due to rapid development and gentrification.

The Community Development Project (CDP) at the Urban Justice Center seeks applicants for the position of staff attorney focusing on litigation and advocacy on behalf of low-income tenants connected to organizing campaigns.

The Housing Unit preserves affording housing for Brooklyn's low-income communities through representation of low-income individuals and families throughout Brooklyn who are facing threats of eviction, harassment, or issues of habitability. Additionally, we advocate on the behalf of clients to retain or attain crucial public benefits that can preserve affordable housing.

Bronx Legal Services' Housing Unit is hiring attorneys to work as part of New York City's Universal Access to Counsel in Housing Court initiative (UAC), which seeks to provide legal assistance to all tenants facing eviction in court. UAC attorneys will primarily litigate cases in housing court, administrative forums and other state and federal courts on behalf of people facing eviction, and may also litigate affirmative cases challenging agencies and actors who threaten Bronx residents' ability to obtain and retain affordable housing.

The Housing Unit is also hiring attorneys for its Tenant Rights Coalition (TRC), which seeks to combat tenant harassment and displacement through individual representation, as well as representation of tenant groups in affirmative litigation to address building-wide issues that could include repairs, overcharges or other issues. TRC attorneys work closely with community-based organizers.

Brooklyn Legal Services seeks a Staff Attorney for its Housing Law Unit. 

The Staff Attorney will represent tenants and groups in Housing Court eviction proceedings, administrative proceedings, Supreme Court actions against administrative agencies, impact litigation in Federal and other courts, and other litigation. Other duties include intake, community education, and community outreach. The position may be located in any of our four offices in Bed-Stuy, Clinton Hill, East New York/Brownsville, and downtown Brooklyn. 

Manhattan Legal Services seeks at least five staff attorneys to work in our Housing Unit. 

The Housing Unit represents low-income clients in many different forums, including defending tenants in eviction proceedings in Housing Court and Supreme Court, representing tenants at administrative hearings, bringing affirmative litigation and handling appeals at all levels.

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

The staff attorneys will join a vibrant practice in the heart of Southeast Queens, serving low-income tenants throughout the borough. We are looking for candidates who are excited to work in a fast-paced environment on housing-related matters, including landlord/tenant actions, eviction defense and affirmative litigation on behalf of tenants. The attorneys will be expected to work closely with community-based organizations and conduct weekly, evening and weekend outreach and off-site intake with our partners.

The Bronx Defenders – an innovative, progressive, holistic indigent defense office in the South Bronx – seeks an energetic advocate with a commitment to social justice to fill a Spanish Speaking Staff Attorney opening in its Civil Action Practice.

The Civil Action Practice seeks a staff attorney to focus on housing justice and to advance its Right to Counsel in Housing Court work as well as provide comprehensive advocacy and representation to help our clients resolve a broad range of civil legal problems. 

Sanctuary for Families, Center for Battered Women's Legal Services, the largest provider in the U.S. of legal services exclusively for victims of domestic violence and related forms of gender-based violence seeks a dynamic individual with a commitment to working with victims and survivors. The Staff Attorney will primarily handle housing matters such as eviction and HP actions in the housing courts of the five boroughs ofNew York City, lease termination matters, and legal advocacy on public housing, housing subsidies, and public benefits. The Staff Attorney will also provide civil legal screenings at the Brooklyn Family Justice Center and represent clients on some family law matters.

The Legal Aid Society, the nation's oldest and largest social justice legal services organization, has openings for dedicated, entry level housing staff attorneys in the Civil Practice. 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. There are opening for Staff Attorneys in all five boroughs.

The Legal Aid Society's Civil Practice has experienced and entry-level 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 three experienced and talented lawyers 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 Attorneys of the Housing Programs. The Housing Program has courthouse, senior, and community-based offices.

The Supervising Attorney will be responsible for the smooth and effective day-to-day operations of the Housing Program in the assigned office. The Supervising Attorney will also coordinate some grant projects, mentor and supervise staff, provide legal leadership, and prioritize legal issues. The Supervising Attorney participates in Practice-wide management discussions and decision-making and is responsible for maintaining relationships with other stakeholders in the legal, court, and service communities.

The Safety Net Project (SNP) at the Urban Justice Center seeks applicants for the position of Housing Staff Attorney. The Staff Attorney will provide direct legal representation to tenants in the area of landlord-tenant law, including civil proceedings in NYC Housing Court, affirmative litigation and New York City Housing Authority Administrative (NYCHA) hearings and appeals.