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Staff Attorney, Eviction Prevention Project - (210001HW)
The Clinical Law Program at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law seeks a Staff Attorney (payroll title – Research Assistant) to lead and grow the program’s interdisciplinary Eviction Prevention Project (EPP). The Staff Attorney position offers a unique opportunity to lead and expand the Clinical Law Program’s eviction prevention work, represent tenants facing eviction, and work as part of an interdisciplinary team with law and social work faculty and students, and community partners.
The EPP, established in August 2020, is currently housed within the Law School’s Medical-Legal Partnership Clinic (directed by Professor Sara Gold since 2011) and staffed by faculty and law students in four clinics of the Maryland Carey Law Clinical Law Program (Public Health Law, Medical-Legal Partnership, Fair Housing, and Mediation). The EPP provides legal and social work services to low-income tenants with acute housing needs due to their inability to pay rent and/or living in unsafe conditions. The Staff Attorney will join the Medical-Legal Partnership Clinic, which collaborates with social workers and healthcare providers to address clients’ health-harming civil legal needs. The Staff Attorney will work with other law and social work faculty involved in the EPP to represent clients, assist clinic faculty in the supervision of law student attorneys representing clients, administer the EPP, and develop a long-term strategy to assess and address the legal needs of low-income renters, including law and policy change at the state and local levels.
Salary: $60,000-$75,000 depending on experience. This is a full-time, one-year position that is expected to be extended to two years, subject to staff attorney performance and availability of funding.
To apply: Interested applicants should submit (a) a cover letter, (b) resume, (c) the names and telephone numbers of at least three references by November 5, 2021. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.