Job Opportunities - Northeast

ACLU | Staff Attorney, Senior Staff Attorney, or Senior Counsel in the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer & HIV Project (New York, NY) [$92,374 - $210,677]

The Staff Attorney, Senior Staff Attorney, or Senior Counsel will be responsible for creating and implementing multi-pronged strategies using litigation, legislative and policy advocacy, and public education to further the ACLU’s strategic goals. OUF.

The Bronx Defenders | Civil Action Practice Policy Director (Bronx, NY) [$116,504 - $131,259]

The Civil Action Practice (CAP) Policy Director will work with the Managing Director of Policy, the CAP Managing Director and the CAP Leadership Team, to develop and advance CAP’s policy agenda in our core practice areas including housing, benefits, employment, property, government misconduct and reentry; amplify our clients’ voices in policy debates; and provide advice and expertise to coalition partners, stakeholders, and policymakers.  The CAP Policy Director will develop policy expertise in specific areas and be expected to represent The Bronx Defenders in policy campaigns and working groups that impact our clients.  The CAP Policy Director will work with the Managing Director of Policy to coordinate policy reform efforts across the office and serve as CAP’s liaison to The Bronx Defenders' Policy Team. The CAP Policy Director will report to the Managing Director of Policy. OUF.

The Bronx Defenders | Staff Attorney (Bronx, NY) [$91,000  (5 years) to $109,000+ (10+ years) DOE]

The Bronx Defenders are seeking experienced civil rights litigators to join the Bronx Defenders Impact Litigation Practice. Our practice litigates proactive challenges to systemic injustices our clients face. We collaborate with defenders in each BxD practice area (criminal defense, family defense, immigration, and the civil action practice) to identify litigation and other advocacy projects that will have the greatest practical impact on strengthening our clients’ defense and preventing further legal system involvement. Our current slate of projects includes challenges to the NYPD’s flagrant misuse of sealed arrest records, racially discriminatory policing through an arbitrary gangs database, racially discriminatory family policing by ACS, arbitrary immigration detention, and inhumane conditions of confinement in immigration detention. The priority deadline for applications is Friday, July 11. You may apply after July 11 so long as this posting remains live. 

Community Legal Aid | Staff Attorney – Housing and Homelessness (Springfield, MA) [$73,000 - $100,000]

Central West Justice Center (CWJC), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Community Legal Aid (CLA), seeks a staff attorney to work in its Springfield office. The attorney will represent tenants in eviction cases, tenants facing denials or terminations from public and subsidized housing programs, and families appealing denials or terminations from the state's Emergency Assistance homeless shelter program. The attorney will regularly participate in a Housing Court lawyer-for-the day program. The attorney will have significant client contact and will engage in community outreach and education, and may be involved in some grant-reporting activities. OUF.

Community Legal Aid | Staff Attorney – Housing (Greenfield, MA) [$73,000 - $106,000]

Community Legal Aid (CLA) seeks a housing attorney to work in its Greenfield office. The core part of the attorney’s job will involve representing tenants in eviction cases and assisting tenants facing denials or terminations from public and subsidized housing programs. OUF.

Community Legal Aid | Staff Attorney: Immigration (Springfield, MA) [$73,000 - $106,000]

Central West Justice Center (CWJC) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Community Legal Aid (CLA). CWJC seeks an attorney to join a vibrant, talented team that provides legal assistance in a range of humanitarian-based immigration law matters, including but not limited to removal defense, VAWA petitions, U and T visas, SIJ petitions, and asylum cases. OUF.

Community Legal Aid | Temporary Staff Attorney – Housing (Worcester, MA) [$73,000 - $106,000]

Community Legal Aid (CLA) seeks a housing attorney to work in its Worcester office for the period of one year, with the possibility of extension. The attorney will represent tenants in eviction cases, assist tenants facing denials or terminations from public and subsidized housing programs, and handle other housing-related matters. OUF.

Committee for Public Counsel Services | Private Panel Attorney (Boston, MA) [$100,000 - $150,000]

CPCS contracts with private attorneys to provide legal representation in Massachusetts for those unable to afford an attorney in most matters in which the law requires the appointment of counsel. This includes representation in criminal, delinquency, youthful offender, child welfare, mental health, sexually dangerous person and sex offender registry cases, as well as related appeals and post-conviction matters. OUF.

Earthjustice | 2026 Summer Law Clerk (Kingston, NY) [$1,320 per week]

Summer law clerks will have the opportunity to work with several attorneys on case development and litigation strategy. Students may draft pleadings and briefs, do legal research, develop strategy and legal theories, gather evidence, and attend client meetings and court proceedings. Earthjustice’s summer law clerk program also includes various programmatic offerings, such as in-person and virtual seminars with attorneys and guest speakers on current environmental issues, interactions with other local and regional environmental groups, and a job interview workshop. Summer 2026 Law Clerkships will accept applications from July through Labor Day 2025.

Free Speech For People | Senior Counsel (Amherst, MA) [$100,000 - $120,000]

Free Speech For People is seeking an experienced public interest attorney to join our cutting-edge legal team as Senior Counsel. Ideal candidates will have civil rights, campaign finance, anti-corruption, and/or election law experience, and be prepared to take a leading role in our work to defend our Constitution and our democracy and to fulfill the promise of political equality for all. OUF.

Greater Boston Legal Services | Administrative Assistant (Boston, MA) [$47,000]

Greater Boston Legal Services (GBLS) seeks two Administrative Assistants / Floaters who will have primary responsibilities to provide a wide range of administrative and clerical support for all program units and to cover the job duties for other Administrative Secretaries/Legal Assistants during their leaves or in case of need. These positions require an in-office schedule Monday through Friday, between 9:00 am and 5:00 pm. Apply by July 31, 2025.

Greater Boston Legal Services | Community Engagement Director (Boston, MA) [$100,000 - $120,000]

The Community Engagement Director is a new leadership position that will play a pivotal role in ascertaining the needs of the communities that GBLS serves and ensuring that those needs drive GBLS’s collective work and priority setting. The Community Engagement Director will serve as a critical link between GBLS and communities in Greater Boston experiencing the most pervasive inequities, and will coordinate existing and new initiatives arising from community input across all units and practice areas at GBLS. The Community Engagement Director will report directly to the Executive Director and work in close partnership with all GBLS managers/directors and external partner constituencies. Apply by August 31, 2025.

Greater Boston Legal Services | Administrative Secretary/Legal Assistant (ASLA)  (Boston, MA) [$47,000 - $49,000]

GBLS seeks a qualified candidate to immediately fill an Administrative Secretary / Legal Assistant (ASLA) position within the Immigration Unit (IU). The Immigration Unit represents clients in a range of immigration law matters, including asylum, T and U-visas, VAWA relief, Special Immigrant Juvenile Status petitions, and removal proceedings. This position is a hybrid position, and the AS/LA is expected to be in the office a minimum of 3 days per week. OUF. 

Greater Boston Legal Services | Paralegal - Elder, Health & Disability Unit  (Boston, MA) [$50,000 - $52,000]

Greater Boston Legal Services (GBLS) seeks a paralegal to work in the Elder, Health and Disability Unit. We provide free legal services and representation to clients in the greater Boston area who cannot afford private legal representation. The Unit represents elders, people with disabilities and families to ensure that they have income, health care and services needed to live independently in the community. The unit’s work includes access to SSI income for children and adults, access to affordable health care for all and representation of elders in benefits and housing matters. Our special projects include: Medicare Advocacy Project, Children’s Disability Project, and School to Prison Pipeline Intervention Project. The unit’s work includes keeping people out of institutions and improving the quality of life for those who live in institutions. We empower people to make decisions about their lives and support people with disabilities in their fight for accessibility and integration.  OUF.  

Greater Boston Legal Services | Paralegal – Immigration Law Unit  (Boston, MA) [$50,000 - $52,000]

Greater Boston Legal Services (GBLS) seeks a full-time paralegal to join the Immigration Law Unit (IU). The Immigration Unit represents clients in a range of immigration law matters, including asylum, T and U-visas, VAWA relief, Special Immigrant Juvenile Status petitions, and removal proceedings. Deadline for applications is July 14,2025 or until position is filled.

Greater Boston Legal Services | Staff Attorney (CORI and Re-Entry Project) (Boston, MA) [$82,000 - $86,500]

Greater Boston Legal Services (GBLS) seeks an attorney with 4 to 9 years of experience for a short-term 3-month temporary position starting after September 1, 2025 with a potential extension of the temporary employment contract for another 3 months.  The attorney will work in the CORI & Re-entry Project to assist individuals before and after release from incarceration in sealing and expunging their criminal records, and advising them on their legal rights related to CORI in the context of job applications, job interviews, and occupational licensing. The attorney will assist with CORI clinics. The attorney will have significant client contact and will work closely with community partners in person or by zoom and other means. The attorney will represent clients in court in criminal record sealing and expungement matters. Deadline for applications is August 15 2025 or until position is filled and applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. 

Greater Boston Legal Services | Staff Attorney (Welfare Law Unit) (Boston, MA) [$82,000 - $86,500]

Greater Boston Legal Services (GBLS) seeks to hire a staff attorney with 0 to 5 years of legal experience to join our Welfare Law Unit (WLU). The WLU uses a range of legal advocacy to enforce legal rights to cash welfare benefits, food assistance and childcare benefits. The WLU’s legal advocacy includes direct representation of individual clients and their families; systemic administrative advocacy directed at targeted state and federal agencies; class action and other impact lawsuits; and legislative advocacy campaigns to expand, improve, and defend income, food, and childcare programs. The WLU's clients include parents with children and single adults with disabilities.  Many of our clients have experienced domestic violence or other traumas, have disabilities and/or children with disabilities, are unhoused, and are immigrants. The deadline for applications is August 15, 2025, or until the position is filled.     

Health Law Advocates (HLA) | Litigation Director (Boston, MA) [$110,000 - $150,000]

Health Law Advocates (HLA) is a non-profit, public interest law firm committed to ensuring universal access to quality health care in Massachusetts. HLA seeks an experienced, self-motivated, creative plaintiffs' litigator to enhance its in-court practice. This litigator, after consultation with staff and experienced board members, will initiate litigation to achieve health care justice, often in partnership with other organizations and law firms. These are individual cases coming principally from our intake process, which can lead to broad-based impact litigation as well. OUF.

Lawyers for Civil Rights | Senior Attorney (MA) [$110,000 - $130,000]

Lawyers for Civil Rights (LCR) fights discrimination and fosters equity through creative and courageous legal advocacy, education, and economic empowerment. The Senior Attorney will actively develop litigation and will also support strategic policy advocacy, community outreach, and communication efforts to ensure the organization’s visibility across diverse communities and social justice movements. The Senior Attorney will report to LCR’s Litigation Director or Deputy Litigation Director. Apply by August 8, 2025.

The Legal Aid Society | Senior Financial Analyst (New York, NY) [$95,000 - $105,000]

The Legal Aid Society (LAS) has an annual revenue of more than $400 million in restricted City, State and unrestricted development revenue to fund its three practice areas, Criminal Defense, Juvenile Rights and Civil Legal Services. The Senior Financial Planning & Analysis Analyst works closely with the Manager of FP&A to execute the organizations financial strategy, primarily funded by government funding agencies and private foundations. This role assists the Manager in overseeing and managing the financial planning and analysis team, providing essential financial analysis for annual budgets, quarterly forecasts, and multi-year finance planning. Apply by October 31, 2025.

The Legal Aid Society of Westchester | Attorney (White Plains, NY) [$72,000 - $95,000]

The Legal Aid Society of Westchester provides quality mandated criminal defense to indigent individuals charged with serious felony crimes throughout Westchester County. New York State Bar Admission is required. The successful candidate will have a valid New York State drivers license and a car as attorneys travel to appear in local courts throughout the county. Attorneys work collaboratively with social work and investigative colleagues in small teams. OUF.

Lichten & Liss-Riordan, P.C. | Contract Attorney (6-month term, could be extended) (Flexible, but preference for Boston, MA or San Francisco, CA) [$110,000 - $140,000]

Lichten & Liss-Riordan is a nationally acclaimed plaintiff-side employment law firm, specializing in class action wage and hour litigation. We are particularly well known for our pioneering and high stakes work challenging independent contractor misclassification and innovative litigation and arbitration strategies to advance workers’ rights. We are seeking contract attorneys to assist with an exciting mass arbitration.  This position would provide excellent experience with handling remote trials.  We are looking for attorneys with outstanding research, writing, and oral argument skills, and a dedication to creative and passionate advocacy on behalf of workers.  Responsibilities include handling all aspects of arbitration, including defending depositions, presenting witness testimony at hearings, arguing before arbitrators, briefing trial motions and other complex issues, working closely with clients, and working closely with partners, associates, and staff on our team.  Prior relevant experience preferred. OUF.

Massachusetts Law Reform Institute | Child Welfare Attorney (Boston, MA) [$70,000 - $105,000]

Massachusetts Law Reform Institute (MLRI) seeks an experienced attorney to lead its statewide child welfare advocacy.  The attorney will lead and support strategic campaigns to prevent children and parents from entering the MA child welfare system and to create a well-resourced community-based system of support so Massachusetts children and families can thrive without involuntary state intervention.  In addition, the attorney will support the statewide MA Family Preservation Project (FPP) by providing technical assistance, trainings and other forms of substantive support to project attorneys and other advocates in civil legal services programs across the state who are representing families involved in or at risk of involvement in the child welfare system.  This position will report to the Deputy Director of Advocacy/Supervising Attorney of the Families & Children practice group. OUF.

NAACP Legal Defense & Education Fund, Inc. | Assistant Counsel (New York, NY) [$120,000 - $151,000]

Legal Defense & Education Fund’s litigation, public policy advocacy and public education programs in the substantive areas of criminal justice, economic justice, education, and political participation seek to ensure the fundamental and basic human rights of all people to quality education, economic opportunity, the right to vote and fully participate in democracy, and the right to a fair and just judicial system. LDF continues to make an impact in the area of public service and was recognized by Fast Company as one of its 2023 Brands That Matter under its public service category. LDF seeks an experienced Assistant Counsel, who will report to a senior litigator, to join the legal team. Applications must be received no later than September 19, 2025, and will be considered on a rolling basis.

Neighborhood Legal Services | Executive Director (Buffalo, NY) [$190,000 - $240,000]

Neighborhood Legal Services of Buffalo is looking for its next Executive Director.  NLS has a staff of 115 people, including our experienced managers and senior leaders.  In 2024, we closed 8052 cases, benefitting 16,580 individual clients and members of their families.  We have grown significantly over the years – our current budget is approximately $18 million/year – giving us a solid foundation to meet the needs of our client populations.  This position is an excellent opportunity for a leader, team-builder, connector and communicator who is passionate about the delivery of justice to marginalized communities. OUF.

NEIWPCC | Staff Accountant (Lowell, MA) [$64,000 - $74,000]

NEIWPCC is a regional commission that helps the states of the Northeast preserve and advance water quality.  NEIWPCC is seeking a full-time Staff Accountant to perform AP/AR accounting duties. This is a great opportunity to apply your accounting knowledge within a non-profit setting, supporting an organization focused on environmental protection. Submit your cover letter, resume, and a brief writing sample by email to jobs@neiwpcc.org by July 13, 2025. Please reference #25-Lowell-006 in the email subject line. Accepting applications until the position is filled.

One8 Foundation | Senior Director of Operations & Administration (Boston, MA) [$190,000 - $220,000]

The Senior Director of Operations & Administration is responsible for management of all finance and administration of the Foundation including operations, grants management, budgeting, bill pay, information technology and human resources. The One8 Foundation is at an important growth period, scaling giving and reach. It requires a senior leader who can ensure the administration of the organization keeps pace with the Foundation’s actions and aspirations. The strategic, ambitious, hands-on nature of our approach to grantmaking must be matched by an internal operation committed to flawless customer service and continual improvement. The Senior Director is responsible for staying one step ahead of the grantmaking team, continually looking for systems and processes that increase both our effectiveness and efficiency. We are an analytic, data-oriented team yet our existing systems do not capture the promise of new technologies that can improve our work. Although we are not seeking an IT expert in this role, this operational leader must have demonstrated experience in identifying and using new technology to drive improvement. OUF.

Prisoners’ Legal Services of Massachusetts | Pro Bono Advocacy Counsel (Boston, MA) [$69,000+]

Prisoners’ Legal Services (PLS) is seeking a full-time Pro Bono Advocacy Counsel to expand access to civil legal services and representation for individuals incarcerated in Massachusetts prisons and jails. The Pro Bono Advocacy Counsel will develop and cultivate relationships with advocacy organizations, the private bar, and volunteers to increase legal representation for incarcerated individuals. This includes building partnerships with law firms, solo practitioners, law schools, and the judiciary to create effective case referral systems and offering guidance to individuals representing themselves in court. OUF.

Project Place | Director of Client Services (Boston, MA) [$90,000 - $100,000]

Project Place in Boston is hiring a Director of Clinical Services to lead and develop a trauma-informed clinical team offering holistic, equity-centered behavioral health supports for individuals experiencing homelessness and reentry. This leadership role manages clinical operations, supervises staff, enhances program quality, and collaborates with cross-functional teams to ensure high-impact, client-driven care — all within a deeply mission-aligned, Boston-based nonprofit. OUF.

Sylvia Rivera Law Project | Director of Legal Services (New York, NY) [$125,000]

The Director of Legal Services, along with the Directors of Litigation and Client Services, will be responsible for the administration and oversight of SRLP’s legal program. The Director of Legal Services will also participate in advocacy, training, and public education, while maintaining a small caseload. The Director of Legal Services will report to all members of DST, Staff, and Collective and collaborate across departments. The Director of Legal Services will honor the collective structure and work to disrupt and deconstruct the inherent power dynamics between attorneys and non-attorneys in legal nonprofits. OUF.

Sylvia Rivera Law Project | Director of Litigation (New York, NY) [$125,000]

The Director of Litigation, along with the Directors of Legal Services and Client Services, will be responsible for the administration and oversight of SRLP’s legal program. The Director of Litigation at SRLP will lead the organization’s litigation strategy with a focus on civil defense, civil rights violations, and class action lawsuits impacting TGNCI communities. The role includes advocating for TGNCI individuals in custody, addressing conditions of confinement such as healthcare access, housing transfers, and safety, while ensuring compliance with the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA). The Director of Litigation will also support movement lawyering efforts, collaborating with grassroots organizations and communities to advance systemic change. In addition, the position involves spearheading public education, Know Your Rights trainings, and policy implementation to safeguard the rights of TGNCI people. The Director of Litigation will report to all members of DST, Staff, and Collective. The Director of Litigation will be expected to maintain a small caseload. OUF.

TakeRoot Justice | Workers’ Rights Senior Staff Attorney (New York, NY) [$82,700 - $93,950]

TakeRoot Justice is hiring a Senior Staff Attorney with 5+ years of substantive legal experience to join it’s Workers’ Rights practice. The position involves representing low-wage workers in wage-and-hour, anti-discrimination, and other employment actions in federal and state court, before administrative agencies, and in pre-litigation negotiations with employers. The Senior Staff Attorney will also lead Know-Your-Rights trainings and partner with community-based centers in all five boroughs of New York City. The successful candidate will be passionate about client-centered lawyering, building collective worker power, and advocating for low-wage workers. OUF.

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