Staff Attorney

**JOB ANNOUNCEMENT**

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**Medical-Legal Partnership Staff Attorney (Contract)**
- Solano County Office _

**POSITION**:Staff Attorney for Medical-Legal Partnership

**TO APPLY**:Send cover letter, résumé, writing sample, and three references with

telephone numbers to:
Shannon McCaffrey, Managing Attorney

1810 Capitol Street

Vallejo, CA 94590

**APPLICATION**

**DEADLINE**:May 15, 2023

**START DATE**:June 1, 2023

**PROGRAM DESCRIPTION**:
Founded in 1956, Legal Services of Northern California (LSNC) provides high quality civil legal
assistance to the poor, elderly, and people with disabilities in 23 northern California counties.
LSNC’s Solano County office receives special funding to partner with Kaiser Permanente to
provide legal information, education, advice and assistance to health care consumers on a variety
of civil legal matters.

**RESPONSIBILITIES**:
Under supervision of the Solano County office’s Managing Attorney, will participate in all

aspects of advocacy and litigation including, but not limited to: client interviews, factual

investigation, legal research, discovery, preparation of legal documents, negotiations, trials,

and appellate work in both state and federal courts; appear at administrative hearings; provide

legal advice to individual clients, and general legal information to eligible community groups

as well as to the public in general; responsible for serving medical-legal partnership sites,

including intake and case handling for medical-legal partnership clients and ongoing medical

provider training. Travel to off-site local medical-legal partnership locations and other

locations in LSNC’s service area for training and events will be required.

**QUALIFICATIONS CRITERIA**:
a. Knowledge of the principles and procedures of litigation in state and federal

Courts, administrative agencies and hearing rights; substantive areas of law

relevant to program/office case priorities; principles of community

development and establishment of working relationships; the theories of

changes in the law and how to implement strategies for developing changes;
principles and procedures of legislative advocacy; the importance of written

reports to management; computer research methods.

b. Skills: Client interviewing, investigation, legal research, analytical reasoning

ability, creativity, excellent English writing skills, negotiation, trial skills,

appellate writing and oral argument, communication/listening skills, ability to

work under stress and short time lines, ability and desire to work with/for poor

people, people with disabilities and other under-served populations; ability to

empathize with the client community, and the ability to do computer research.

c. Language: An ability to relate to the client community being served; bilingual

in a language spoken by client communities preferred, but not required.

**EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE**:
J.D. or L.L.M. and a member of the California Bar. This is an entry-level position or higher - attorney

with one (1) to five (5) years’ experience working with low-income people preferred; experience with

community outreach preferred; Spanish-speaking ability preferred, but not required.

**SALARY RANGE**:$5,607 (Step 1) to $5,939 (Step 5) per month DOE****:

- See LSNC’s Policy on Salary Scales and Scale Placement at lsnc.net _

**BENEFITS**: Legal Services of Northern California offers an excellent fringe benefit

plan.

LSNC PROVIDES A BILINGUAL BONUS FOR EMPLOYEES WHO SPEAK A SECOND

LANGUAGE, OTHER THAN ENGLISH, COMMONLY SPOKEN BY CLIENTS WHEN THE

SECOND LANGUAGE IS USED ON THE JOB FOR WHICH THE PERSON IS EMPLOYED.

**LSNC IS AN EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY/AFFIRMATIVE ACTION EMPLOYER**

**AND ENCOURAGES WOMEN, PEOPLE OF COLOR, PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES,**

**OLDER PEOPLE, AND LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENDER PEOPLE TO**

**APPLY.