Health Law Unit Managing Attorney

Atlanta Legal Aid Society (“Legal Aid”) seeks a Managing Attorney for its Health Law Unit located in its downtown Atlanta office. The Health Law Unit is a general law unit whose attorneys represent clients facing a wide variety of civil legal issues, including family law, housing, consumer, public benefits, education, and health law. Health Law Unit clients face a number of life-threatening illnesses affecting their health and well-being. We coordinate services to address legal, social, and economic conditions threatening their health. The staff currently consists of an interim managing attorney, two staff attorneys, and a grants coordinator. In addition to a managing attorney, we are seeking a paralegal and another staff attorney.

Responsibilities: The Managing Attorney works closely with Legal Aid’s management team and maintains relations with the local bar and bench, government, community partners and funders. The Managing Attorney is responsible for the overall management of the unit including hiring, training, supervising, mentoring, and evaluating staff; overseeing case assignment and the legal work; reviewing and responding to client grievances; reviewing timekeeping and inspecting closed files to ensure grant compliance; communicating and meeting with community partners and funders; attending trainings with and providing training to community partners and funders; supervising the preparation of quarterly and annual grant reports and plans; serving as the Legal Aid designee for a major funder; conducting site visits; and participating in audits. The Managing Attorney also handles a caseload, performs client intake, and participates in community education and outreach.

Qualifications: A Georgia bar license or eligibility for the next Georgia bar exam and a minimum of five years of litigation experience are required. Applicants must possess experience managing staff including supervising and mentoring attorneys; excellent legal writing and oral advocacy skills; excellent interpersonal, communication and organizational skills; the ability to work in a collaborative, hybrid team model; and an appreciation of diversity. A demonstrated commitment to public service, participation in law school clinics, trial advocacy courses, previous work with low-income people and/or people with serious health conditions, and knowledge of health and poverty law are preferred. Proficiency in languages other than English is highly valued.

Salary and Benefits: The salary for five years of legal experience is $65,100 plus a $4,000 annual manager stipend. (The salary offered may increase or decrease depending on the actual, relevant experience of the selected candidate.) Salaries currently increase annually based on a salary scale. We recently engaged a compensation consultant to review our current structure and make recommendations for improvement. The program provides generous fringe benefits including 18 paid holidays (in 2024), 6 weeks paid time off, 6 weeks parental leave; health (including optional dental and vision coverage), life, and long and short-term disability insurance; partial payment for dependent health insurance; a salary reduction option for a flexible spending account; educational loan reimbursement up to $600 per month (after a set off of other loan reimbursement amounts); voluntary tax-sheltered annuity with 3% match; Georgia Bar dues and CLE expenses. Legal Aid offers a hybrid work schedule that allows staff to work 2 days remotely subject to the approval of management and a probationary employment period. This position may be eligible for Public Service Loan Forgiveness through the U.S. Department of Education.

Application Requirements: Submit a letter of interest; resume; writing sample (advice letter, legal memorandum or brief); official law school transcript (a copy is acceptable pending your order of an official transcript); and the names, phone numbers and email addresses of three professional references (preferably individuals who have supervised or managed your work) as one (1) PDF using our online application system at atlantalegalaid.org/jobs.

Your application will be acknowledged. No phone calls please. For assistance with technical difficulties in submitting your application, please email [email protected].

Legal Aid considers all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, or any other legally protected status.