Overview
Managing Attorney – Farm Worker Rights Division Jobs in Denver, USA at Colorado Legal Services
Organization Overview
Colorado Legal Services (CLS) is Colorado’s statewide nonprofit legal aid program, with thirteen offices providing civil legal assistance to low-income Coloradans throughout the state. CLS provides free legal assistance in a broad variety of legal areas, including family law, public benefits, eviction defense, consumer protection, services to survivors of serious crime and human trafficking, and many others.
CLS has strengthened lives, assisted families, and supported communities-one person at a time for over 100 years. We are committed to providing high-quality, free legal advice and representation to eligible individuals throughout Colorado. We have a long history of successful impact and advocacy. CLS strives to bring about substantive, transformational change in the lives of those we serve.
At CLS, we value representation. We value and respect our staff’s wide variety of backgrounds and experiences. We ensure representation of our client communities in our staff, Board of Directors and leadership teams. We also envision a fair, just, trusted, and harm reductionist legal system that emphasizes access to and implementation of true justice for every Coloradan.
Job Description
The Managing Attorney for the Farm Worker Rights Division (FWRD) leads legal advocacy for migrant and seasonal agricultural workers, focusing on employment and civil rights law. FWRD also sometimes represents agricultural workers who have endured labor trafficking and other severe crimes in obtaining humanitarian visas for themselves and their derivates. The Managing Attorney oversees a team conducting both litigation and outreach work.
The role requires litigation expertise, community partnership, and management skills to ensure the program provides impactful and excellent advocacy for Colorado’s most exploited and vulnerable agricultural workers.
All of our managers have the responsibility of working with staff to meet CLS’ statewide organizational, professional, and community goals, which emphasize providing high-quality civil legal services to low-income Coloradans and achieving the best possible outcomes for our clients. They are guided by all four of our CLS values: excellent advocacy; empowerment, collaboration, and courage. They are responsible for being leaders, mentors, counselors, role models, hiring managers, teachers, administrators, time managers, culture creators, community engagers, crisis managers, and performance expectation setters.
Managing Attorneys also practice law and manage their own caseloads in addition to their other duties. Our managers also continually work towards developing and growing competencies in the following areas:adaptive & collaborative management; coaching & empowering people; communication & active listening; community engagement; empathetic and trauma-informed leadership; and practice area expertise. While the responsibilities of a manager at CLS are wide-ranging and challenging, carrying them out successfully is vital to the success of the organization and to serve our client communities.
Job Duties
- Provides the oversight, assistance, guidance, and supervision necessary to ensure the effective administration, operation, and management of FWRD.
- Cultivates a culture that supports staff while holding staff to high expectations of performance by modeling patience, empathy, and sound judgment.
- Provides supervision and guidance for FWRD’s attorneys, paralegal, outreach coordinator, and interns, including periodically reviewing their legal work and providing training, professional development, employee coaching, and performance evaluation.
- Oversees staff workloads, client relations, external partner relations, and interpersonal team dynamics, and works with Senior Leadership on addressing personnel issues consistent with our Collective Bargaining Agreement.
- Leads the FWRD team in representing agricultural worker clients before federal and state courts and administrative agencies, in the following areas:
- Employment law (wage theft, working conditions, discrimination, human trafficking, and civil rights)
- Humanitarian visas and naturalization for agricultural workers who…
Title: Managing Attorney – Farm Worker Rights Division
Company: Colorado Legal Services
Location: Denver, USA
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