Open Door Legal

Managing Attorney - External Partnerships

San Francisco, CA · Contract

Sponsorship not specified$96k-$112kDetected 12 days ago

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About the role

These partnerships help us increase our capacity and close the justice gap.
You will also work out of multiple office locations in San Francisco.
They are located in the Bayview, Western Addition, Excelsior, and Sunset neighborhoods.

Recruit and maintain our referral relationships with Pro Bono partners, contract attorneys, private law firms, and legal service organizations.
This includes attending networking and professional events to meet and recruit potential referral partners.
Conduct initial meetings with interested pro bono attorneys and conduct periodic meetings with partners to ensure ongoing participation in the referral system.
Gather all necessary data and outcomes information from referral partners for grant reporting needs.
Take the lead on organizing our legal clinics and monitoring the delivery of services by non-legal know-your-rights counselors.
Ensure that cases placed with external partners have a positive client feedback rating.
You may type your cover letter into the text box or combine your cover letter and resume into one PDF document for upload.

Excellent writing, editing, and proofreading skills, with the ability to be detail-oriented.
Must be willing to make a minimum two-year commitment to the organization.

Experience working in a high-volume legal aid organization, public defender's office, or similar environment, or as a pro bono attorney.
Experience working with low-income and vulnerable populations.
Having lived a significant period of your life in San Francisco proper.
Comfortable practicing, translating, and interpreting in Spanish and/or Cantonese (this comes with a slight compensation increase upon assessment).

We financially invest in individual professional development for each staff member and provide many internal and external mentorships, coaching, and learning opportunities (conferences, workshops, etc.).
If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please let us know at whitney [at] opendoorlegal [dot] org.

"It always seems impossible until it's done." - Nelson Mandela We believe that even the biggest problems can be broken down into small, achievable steps.
Poverty and access to justice are part of the same problem.
And we're solving this problem together.
At Open Door Legal (ODL), we're pioneering the country's first system of universal access to civil legal representation to dramatically reduce poverty and prove that the law really can belong to all of us.
We've grown 150x in 10 years, and in the next 2 years, we hope to finish scaling across San Francisco.
To achieve this goal, we've created an award-winning and best-in-class legal aid organization full of passionate, motivated, gritty, thoughtful, and team-oriented people.
We believe that injustice is the heart of poverty, and we're looking for someone to join us in ensuring justice for all.
Overview of Position: We are hiring a Managing Attorney - External Partnerships who will lead, manage, and direct our pro bono partners, contract attorneys, private law firms, and legal service organizations as they take on referred cases.
As part of the Triage Team, you will work with members of each of our practice areas to coordinate placing viable legal matters either internally or externally with our partners.
We currently have four offices.
We anticipate opening new locations in the Tenderloin and Mission neighborhoods by the end of the year.

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