The Agricultural Worker Program utilizes a community lawyering model to address the specific, discrete, and systemic issues facing agricultural workers statewide. The model calls for creative, innovative advocacy that uses a multipronged approach to address the issues and their systemic roots. Approaches such as community leadership development and advocacy around policies are as important to the work as traditional legal advocacy. The Agricultural Worker Program (AWP) covers a wide array of legal areas ranging from wage and hour violations to unsafe industry-wide working conditions. AWP’s clients are low-wage agricultural workers, including farmworkers and people who work in: dairies, packing houses, plant and flower nurseries, and meat and animal product processing operations such as meat and egg packing.

Our work impacts farmworkers, indigenous populations, individuals with disabilities, immigrant populations, LGBTQ+ communities, women, children, and low-income families in rural areas in Salinas, CA at the RJU office.

This is an exciting opportunity to be on the ground in communities heavily impacted by wage theft and other employment violations. CRLA seeks a dynamic and passionate individual who will provide direct legal services as well as track data and identify trends, repeat bad actors, and industry violations. The Staff Attorney will develop expertise in this area of law and serve as a resource for CRLA staff and CRLA’s statewide community lawyering efforts.

Reporting to the Directing Attorney, the Staff Attorney provides comprehensive legal services to eligible clients in CRLA priority areas in accordance with CRLA program guidelines, the ABA Standards for Providers of Civil Legal Services, and the Code of Professional Responsibility.

Reporting to the Directing Attorney, the Staff Attorney provides comprehensive legal services to eligible clients in CRLA priority areas in accordance with CRLA program guidelines, the ABA Standards for Providers of Civil Legal Services, and the Code of Professional Responsibility.

Reporting to the Tenant Justice Project Supervising Litigation Attorneys, the Staff Attorney provides comprehensive housing-related legal services to eligible tenants in accordance with CRLA program guidelines, the ABA Standards for Providers of Civil Legal Services, and the Code of Professional Responsibility.

Reporting to the Shriver Supervising Attorney, the Wrap-Around Community Worker will play a pivotal role in providing comprehensive support to low-income tenants navigating housing challenges.

Reporting to the Directing Attorney, the Community Worker will perform initial screenings for eligibility, interviews to determine the nature of the legal problem/s and to identify the type of legal assistance being sought by the applicants.