Senior Staff Attorney

Position Summary

The Cardozo School of Law’s Kathryn O. Greenberg Immigration Justice Clinic is interested in hiring an attorney as Senior Staff Attorney to start in the summer of 2025.

The Immigration Justice Clinic at Cardozo is an in-house year-long intensive live client clinic in which students represent immigrants in a variety of matters. Individual cases most frequently involve deportation/removal proceedings in the immigration and federal courts. Substantively, the clinic’s docket focuses primarily on immigrants facing deportation because of encounters with the criminal legal system and more generally on immigration enforcement issues. In addition, students and Clinic staff have the opportunity to represent immigrant community-based and national advocacy organizations engaged in impact projects on cutting-edge immigration issues. Impact litigation and legislative advocacy are mainstays of the clinic’s docket. You can learn more about the clinic under the “Learn About Our Work” link at http://www.cardozo.yu.edu/immigrationjusticeclinic.

Position Responsibilities

The Senior Staff Attorney’s core responsibilities would include a combination of the following:

• Work on deportation defense or related cases in the immigration, federal, and state courts
• Work on impact litigation and advocacy projects with immigrant community-based and national advocacy organizations
• Supervision of clinic students on litigation and advocacy projects
• Assistance in and administration of the Clinic and related activities
• Primary responsibility for the clinic docket during the summer session
  
  

In addition, the Senior Staff Attorney would play an important role supporting Cardozo’s planned immigration-related center in which the Clinic will be housed and would have some autonomy to construct their own docket of relevant work in accordance with their interests and the center.

Experience & Educational Background

• J.D required
  
  

Salary Range

$85,000 - $90,000

About Us

The Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law is a leader in legal education, located in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village. The law school is renowned for its program in intellectual property, which includes the FAME Center for Fashion, Arts, Media and Entertainment Law. Cardozo Law has a long tradition of public advocacy and is the birthplace of the Innocence Project and the home of our Center for Rights and Justice. Cardozo offers a world-class faculty and encourages creative thinking and innovation in the legal profession. Cardozo provides students with a strong foundation in legal theory combined with practical hands-on experience in a variety of areas including criminal law, civil rights law, and business law. The school prides itself on creating a vibrant and warm community for faculty, staff and students.

A division of Yeshiva University, Cardozo Law School offers an excellent compensation package, and a broad range of employee benefit plans. The law school is a secular institution within a religious university and welcomes people of all religions, ethnic backgrounds, races and sexual identities.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Yeshiva University is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing employment opportunities to all employees and candidates without regard to race, color, age, sex, national origin, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.