Commission on Domestic and Sexual Violence - Legal Fellow
American Bar Association
- Washington DC
- $54,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Undertakes substantive legal work for a grant-funded project and/or provides substantive support and expertise to an assigned section. Fellowship assignments typically do not exceed two calendar years in duration.
- Undertakes substantive legal work for a grant-funded project and/or provides substantive support and expertise to an assigned section.
- May perform pro-bono assistance under the direction and supervision of a direct service host agency, if required by the grantor, through a collaborative arrangement with ABA entities.
- Provides substantive advice, information, and policy on a substantive area of law or public policy.
- Conducts research and meets with appropriate counterparts to develop memoranda, reports, technical analyses, and policy recommendations.
- Analyzes law, regulations, court rules, and policy proposals and synthesizes findings into appropriate reports/memoranda on law or public policy.
- Analyzes data and crafts meaningful and actionable presentations on legal and public policy issues. May advise on event planning, model documents and templates, and training methodologies intended to optimize data transfer and retention.
- May provide outside legal assistance and pro bono support to such entities such as legal aid or similarly situated group.
- Performs other related duties as required.
- Possession of, or actively pursuing a Juris Doctorate with at least 2 years completed, from an ABA-accredited law school.
- Must be admitted to the bar of at least one jurisdiction, either within 6 months of attaining the JD or within 6 months of employment.
- Must have received the award of a Fellowship from a recognized program.
- As a normal course of business, this job will typically require travel of less than 5% of the time.