Type: Regular, Exempt, Full-time.

Location: San Francisco or Oakland, CA. This is a hybrid role that is required to work in the office 2 days a week.

Deadline: January 31, 2025. Applications will be considered on a rolling basis until filled

Compensation and Benefits: The salary range for this position is $122,534 - $159,879. The compensation is determined based on relevant years of experience. ALC’s comprehensive benefits package includes the following: generous vacation and paid holidays; medical, dental, disability, and life insurance coverage (ALC pays 100% of premiums for employees and 75% for qualified dependents); a flexible spending account (FSA); commuter benefits; and 401(k) retirement plan with employer non-elective contribution and match.

The Opportunity

Asian Law Caucus (ALC) seeks a Managing Attorney at a crucial time for immigrant worker protections. As we anticipate rollbacks of federal workplace rights and increased vulnerabilities for immigrant workers, we are expanding our legal team to strengthen worker power and defend labor protections for Asian and Pacific Islander communities.

Join our dynamic team in advocating for economic justice through a combination of community-centered legal advocacy, strategic litigation, and support for worker organizing. Our attorneys work closely with worker centers and community partners to build lasting power for low-income immigrant workers.

Core responsibilities include:

• Expanding and strengthening the program’s legal support for worker-center partners to promote and support workplace organizing and worker-led campaigns;
• Overseeing the program’s monthly legal counseling clinics;
• Supervising the program’s direct services caseload;
• Developing and pursuing impact litigation and policy advocacy that is informed by our direct-service and community work; and
• Supervising the paralegal, community advocate, and any fellows or law clerks hired within the program.

The position reflects our commitment to integrating legal advocacy with movement building to create systemic change. You’ll work within a supportive environment that values innovation, collaboration, and community partnership, under the guidance of our Workers’ Rights Program Director.

Responsibilities

Day-to-day activities include the following:

Management

• Supervise staff attorneys, paralegals, community advocates, law students, and law fellows, guide their professional development, and manage the team’s progress toward its work plan and goals in alignment with the organization’s mission and strategic priorities.
• Engage in and support strategic planning with the Workers Rights Program Director.
• Perform administrative and operations duties, such as performance reviews and grant reporting and management.

Building Worker Power

• Provide legal support for worker-led and/or worker-center-supported campaigns.
• Grow, strengthen, and maintain strategic community partnerships with grassroots organizations to collaboratively address challenges faced by immigrant workers.
• Develop and support implementation of know-your-rights and other outreach plans to build capacity of new partners to engage in worker-rights advocacy.
• Collaborate with Communications staff to execute narrative-shifting strategies.

Direct Legal Services

• Manage monthly clinics and supervise the Worker Rights Program’s provision of direct services to individual workers.
• Provide high-quality legal representation to individual low-wage workers, in federal and state trial and appellate courts, as well as administrative proceedings, mediation, and direct negotiation with employers.

Systems Change

• Develop and litigate impact cases, including class actions, in state and federal court on issues identified through direct-services work and community partnerships
• Guide the staff attorney, community advocate, and policy team in advocating for policy solutions that advance a pro-worker agenda at the local, state, and/or federal levels, informed by direct-services work and community partnerships
• Identify and develop opportunities for collaboration with other ALC programs, such as tenant-worker advocacy or protections against worksite immigration enforcement.

Desired Qualifications

• B.A./B.S. and J.D. degrees. California bar membership is required
• Demonstrated commitment to building worker power, including through organizing and legal representation
• Demonstrated commitment to low-income, immigrant, and/or API/AMEMSA communities
• Substantive legal experience in labor and employment law
• At least four years of experience providing legal services and/or conducting state/federal court litigation
• Excellent skills in legal research, analysis, and written and oral advocacy
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple cases and projects in a timely manner
• Highly motivated self-starter
• Demonstrated leadership and ability to work independently and in collaboration with other attorneys, advocates, and community-based organizations
• Experience supervising others on specific projects required; long-term supervisory experience is preferred
• Language proficiency in an Asian or Middle Eastern language is a plus

Application Process

Interested candidates should submit the following:

(1) A Cover letter
(2) Resume
(3) Writing sample (no more than 10 pages)
(4) Three professional references (including one direct supervisor reference)