Asian Pacific Islander Legal Outreach

Post Bar Fellow - Immigration Rights

Oakland, CA

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About the role

About Asian Pacific Islander Legal Outreach API Legal Outreach is the largest social justice legal organization focused on the Asian/Pacific Islander, Latinx, and immigrant communities of the Greater Bay Area and the Central Valley.
Once the fellow passes the California Bar, there is a potential to transition to a Staff Attorney position.
Provide case management and assist with legal services under the supervision of a licensed attorney to eligible clients, particularly but not exclusively in the area of immigrant rights.

Fluency in API language or Spanish ● Bicultural skills relevant to low-income communities.

A growing community-based organization founded in 1975, our mission is to provide culturally competent and linguistically appropriate direct services to the most marginalized segments of our community including low-income women, seniors, immigrants, and youth.
With offices in Oakland and San Francisco, our work is focused in the areas of Gender-based Violence, Immigration and Immigrant Rights, Disability Rights, Senior Law and Elder Abuse, Anti-Human Trafficking, Youth Violence Prevention, Anti API Hate Violence, the preservation of affordable housing and small businesses, and other social justice issues.
Position Overview Under the supervision of the Supervising Attorney for Immigrant Rights, the Post Bar Fellow in Immigrant Rights will assist with various legal services to low-income clients, particularly but not exclusively in the area of immigration.
They will actively participate in community outreach, represent the organization at various forums, and assist in the broader administrative tasks of the organization.
This role will be instrumental in our mission to serve underserved Asian, Pacific Islander, and BIPOC communities in the Greater Bay Area and is based in our East Bay office.

API Legal Outreach is an equal opportunity employer to all, regardless of age, ancestry, color, disability (mental and physical), exercising the right to family care and medical leave, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, political affiliation, race, religious creed, sex (includes pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding and related medical conditions), and sexual orientation.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

This listing is sourced directly from Asian Pacific Islander Legal Outreach's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.