Tenant Eviction Defense New Lawyer Fellow

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Tenant Eviction Defense New Lawyer Fellow

The candidate will help develop program infrastructure to scale service delivery, including document automation, workflow management systems, templates, and forms. Commit to learning how to provide limited scope legal services. Do extensive, substantive legal work to protect tenants from eviction, including legal research, discovery compilation and analysis, asset distribution calculations, negotiations, and trial preparation–formal and informal–such as memos, witness exams, motions, etc. Regularly litigate in multiple counties, navigating local rules, customs, and cultures. Collaborate with the program team, including director, other fellows, paralegals, and clerks, and with the broader organization to deliver and improve services. Support community legal education program development, including outreach, curriculum building, networking, volunteer recruitment, and ambassadorship. Use the organization’s tech stack to optimize workflow and communications. Use and help build the organization’s internal knowledge base regarding substantive legal and operational issues. Manage communication with clients, opposing parties, attorneys, and witnesses; and Help make it fun because life is too short for work to be a bummer. Oregon law license in good standing.

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The Commons Law Center
810 NW Marshall St, 300
Portland
Oregon
United States 97209
Website : https://thecommonslawcenter.org