Job Description

Position Summary

We seek to hire an Immigration Staff Attorney in its Plantation office. Working as a part of an interdisciplinary team, the attorney will represent unaccompanied minors; non-citizen minors who were abused, neglected, or abandoned by one or both parents; immigrant children not living with their parents; asylum; and special immigrant juvenile status before the Immigration Court and the Department of Homeland Security and will be cross-trained in other areas of immigration.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide individual immigration consultations and know-your-rights presentations to immigrant communities.
• Represent clients before various agencies, including immigration court, ICE, USCIS, and state and federal courts, in applications and advocacy for relief from removal.
• Engage with allied community organizations, including presenting community education programs;
• Participate in the preparation of grant and billing reports.

Education & Experience

• Active membership in a State Bar (Does not have to be Florida);
• The attorney will have a J.D. degree from an ABA-accredited law school
• Experience serving low-income communities preferred but not required;

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