Reporting to the Tenant Justice Project (TJP) Director and Supervising Litigation 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. The Staff Attorney will work with other CRLA attorneys and support staff providing legal services to owners of mobile homes who lease space in mobile home parks and face significant habitability issues and/or eviction. Funding for this position is through 12/27/2024, with the expectation that continued funding will be awarded.

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. Funding for this position is through 12/31/2024, with the expectation that continued funding will be awarded.

Reporting to the Indigenous Program Legal Director, the Staff Attorney provides comprehensive legal services to eligible clients in CRLA’s priority areas of housing, employment, public benefits, education, and leadership development, with a focus on serving Indigenous Latin American communities in accordance with CRLA program guidelines, the ABA Standards for Providers of Civil Legal Services and the Code of Professional Responsibility. The ideal candidate will have demonstrated interest in serving the target populations and an enthusiasm for creative advocacy.

The CEI Community Worker will be partnered with the local CEI Staff Attorney to implement and evolve creative advocacy strategies to address community-identified environmental justice issues in the unincorporated communities in Stanislaus and Merced Counties. Primary responsibilities include conducting community outreach and education, community leadership development, and developing and implementing advocacy strategies to improve infrastructure, services, and investment in disadvantaged unincorporated communities.

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.

The LGBTQ+ Program Staff Attorney will help increase access to justice for low-income lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) people in rural California, including LGBTQ+ agricultural workers and immigrants. CRLA regularly represents LGBTQ+ clients in a variety of types of legal cases, including immigration, education and employment discrimination, access to gender-affirming care, as well as name and gender marker correction petitions.

The Program Coordinator would serve to assist the Legal Director in knitting together the three CEI offices, as well as facilitating collaboration with other CRLA programs and offices, conducting grant reporting and other funding-related activities, and working with the Legal Director, all three offices, and the CRLA media team to conduct long term strategic media campaigns to achieve systemic and case-related change and to work with the communities we represent to aid them in being effective spokespeople for the change they seek.

The Program Coordinator would serve to assist the Legal Director in knitting together the three CEI offices, as well as facilitating collaboration with other CRLA programs and offices, conducting grant reporting and other funding-related activities, and working with the Legal Director, all three offices, and the CRLA media team to conduct long term strategic media campaigns to achieve systemic and case-related change and to work with the communities we represent to aid them in being effective spokespeople for the change they seek.