Legal Assistant Lambda Legal

Lambda Legal – Chicago, IL

Lambda Legal seeks a Legal Assistant for its Legal Department, in the Midwestern Regional Office in Chicago. The Legal Assistant will spend significant time staffing the Legal Help Desk by responding to the public’s requests for help and/or information. The Legal Assistant will also assist attorneys in the HIV Project and other areas with research and preparation of legal filings to advance Lambda Legal’s cutting-edge impact litigation and advocacy.

Legal Assistant Lambda Legal

The Legal Assistant will primarily be responsible for legal and administrative support to attorneys who work on an array of priorities within Lambda Legal’s mission. In addition to the production of legal briefs and cite-checking, the Legal Assistant will prepare other legal filings; perform non-legal research; maintain case files and other organizational systems; draft correspondence; contact court personnel and other attorneys and advocates; and provide general administrative support to attorneys in the Legal Department. Finally, the Legal Assistant will also help staff the Legal Help Desk intake line, which involves initial pre-screening and information-gathering to identify potential clients, as well as helping callers locate resources.
Qualifications

Excellent oral and written communication skills. Motivated, detail-oriented, well-organized, self-starting, dependable, able to work well under pressure, a team player, computer-literate. Microsoft Word, Adobe Acrobat, and internet research skills required. Prior legal secretarial or support work is highly desired, and a willingness to develop the specialized knowledge about the legal system and legal documents necessary to perform duties in a law office setting is essential. Familiarity with LexisNexis, electronic court filing systems (including the federal judiciary’s Case Management/Electronic Case Files (CM/ECF) system), Excel, and PowerPoint is helpful. Because of the focused and challenging nature of the work Lambda Legal does, a background in or familiarity with issues, legal or otherwise, important to the LGBT community and/or people with HIV will greatly strengthen an application. Ability to handle intake calls, often from people facing crises or significant problems, is critical; thus any experience with hotlines is also helpful. Working at Lambda Legal requires a demonstrated awareness of and commitment to the concerns of the communities Lambda Legal represents. A minimum two-year commitment is required, and fluency in Spanish is a plus.
Salary

Mid-30’s, DOE. Excellent employer-paid benefits package including medical, dental, life and longterm disability insurance, and generous employer contribution to retirement account. Generous vacation.

Send your application to ggonzalez@lambdalegal.org.

Lambda Legal is a national organization committed to achieving full recognition of the civil rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people and people with HIV through impact litigation, education, and public policy work. Founded in 1973 and headquartered in New York City, Lambda Legal has regional offices in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas and Los Angeles.

Lambda Legal’s law reform, policy, and education work encompasses a wide range of areas critically important to LGBT people and those living with HIV, including federal and state constitutional law issues; gender identity, sexual orientation and HIV discrimination in employment, schools, youth in out-of-home care systems, health care, and the criminal justice system; relationship protections, including the freedom to marry; child custody, visitation, assisted reproduction, and adoption; foster care and juvenile justice; asylum and immigration policy; and anti-LGBT harassment and violence. Lambda Legal has been involved in numerous landmark United States and state Supreme Court cases, including Lawrence v. Texas , Romer v. Evans , Boy Scouts of America v. Dale , Bragdon v. Abbott, Glenn v. Brumby, University of Alabama v. Garrett , In re Marriage Cases , Varnum v. Brien , Benitez v. North Coast Women’s Care Medical Group , and Brandon v. County of Richardson . For more information about Lambda Legal, visit www.lambdalegal.org

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