Community Legal Services, Inc. of Philadelphia is a non-profit public interest agency providing free civil legal services to low-income Philadelphia residents. As the largest provider of free civil legal services in the Philadelphia area, CLS is both locally and nationally renowned as a premier legal services provider dedicated to ensuring access to justice for all low-income individuals and communities. CLS has eight legal units covering a wide range of civil legal services.
Community Legal Services is seeking a staff attorney to work as a part of the Homeownership and Consumer Rights Unit with a focus on tangled title cases. This exciting and demanding position combines courtroom representation of individual homeowners to help preserve and grow homeownership low-income Philadelphians. This attorney would represent clients facing a variety of tangled title legal issues arising out of but not limited to mortgage foreclosure and tax foreclosure issues. The work may also include some community outreach and education.