The Public Interest Law Center, a nationally renowned 57-year-old nonprofit, uses high-impact legal strategies to advance the civil, social, and economic rights of communities in the Philadelphia region facing discrimination, inequality, and poverty. We use litigation, community education, advocacy, and organizing to secure access to fundamental resources and services. Our practice areas include employment, environmental justice, healthcare, housing, public education, and voting.
In the last 15 months, the Law Center has been especially focused on responding to the Trump administration’s unprecedented threats to democracy, the rule of law, and the most vulnerable in our society. We have represented transgender youth and their families in quashing sweeping subpoenas demanding their sensitive medical records, intervened to prevent the federal government from obtaining private voter information that would be used to fuel baseless challenges to voter eligibility, stopped the early termination of consent decrees imposed to remedy discriminatory lending, and sought to continue a race discrimination lawsuit dropped by the EEOC “based solely on a Presidential directive.” We do all this while working to ensure safe, affordable housing for renters, adequately funded public schools, access to employment for people with criminal records, preservation of urban community gardens, and the counting of every vote.
Job Description:
The Law Center is seeking applications for a full-time attorney to work on our major initiatives across multiple project areas, including public education and housing. Reporting to the Legal Director, the attorney will be responsible for all aspects of litigation, including identifying high impact cases, developing legal theories, and conducting factual investigation, research, discovery, trial, appeals, and enforcement. They are expected to stay informed about the challenges facing the diverse communities in which we work and to identify high-impact litigation solutions where appropriate.
The attorney also will be responsible for developing and implementing a wide range of additional strategies to achieve clients’ goals, including advocacy, organizing, community education, and coalition building.