Section 1: Overview and Purpose of Position Each year refugees and immigrants come to the United States to seek a better life and/or protection from persecution in their home country. To help them build their lives in the United States, JVS offers pro-bono and low-bono legal services for these refugees and immigrants by providing competent and comprehensive immigration legal services. The Staff under Attorney’s supervision will contribute to the activities of the Immigration Services Program and
Jewish Vocational ServiceLegal Aid of Western Missouri seeks a paralegal to support our family law team at our Central office in Kansas City. The family law paralegal assists our attorneys in representing survivors of domestic violence, with a primary focus on obtaining adult and child orders of protection. The paralegal screens and interviews potential clients, presents information to attorneys for review, creates and organizes attorney files, follows up with clients regarding their cases in a timely manner, drafts documents,
Legal Aid of Western MissouriLEGAL AID OF WESTERN MISSOURI STAFF ATTORNEY – GENERAL PRACTICE INDEPENDENCE, MISSOURI Legal Aid of Western Missouri seeks a full-time general practice attorney to be housed in our new Independence, Missouri location. The attorney will be part of our Warrensburg team, which serves 13 counties in west-central Missouri. The position is litigation-centered with a case load consisting of family law, guardianships, and other substantive areas of law in which Legal Aid provides service. Some daytime
Legal Aid of Western MissouriLEGAL AID OF WESTERN MISSOURISTAFF ATTORNEY - ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT UNITKANSAS CITY, MISSOURI The Economic Development Unit of Legal Aid of Western Missouri is seeking a full-time attorney for its Paseo Office in Kansas City, Missouri. The attorney will work with inner-city neighborhood associations and local non-profit community development corporations on targeted inner-city community improvement initiatives. This position will focus heavily on real estate transactions and civil land-use litigation with
Legal Aid of Western MissouriAbout the ACLU of Kansas: The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Kansas is a non-profit and non-partisan organization dedicated to preserving and advancing the civil rights and legal freedoms guaranteed by the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights and the Kansas Constitution. The ACLU of Kansas works in the state legislature, the courts, and local communities to protect the rights of all people living in Kansas. The organization’s work includes efforts to strengthen and defend First
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