Description:
Brief Description: A Muslim Civil Rights and Advocacy Group is seeking a talented Staff Attorney to join its civil rights department at this crucial time in our nation's history.Essential Functions/Duties
The Staff Attorney will be primarily responsible for:
- Performing legal research and drafting legal documents, including answers, motions, and other routine court filings
- Drafting written work product, including legal and research memorandums and other legal documents, as requested
- Drafting demand letters and engaging in alternative dispute resolution to resolve civil rights cases outside court intervention
- Representing clients during FBI interrogations
- Assisting trial attorneys with various aspects of litigation, including, but not limited to, client interviews, factual investigation, legal research, discovery, preparation of trial documents, negotiations, trials, and appellate work
- Participating in speaking engagements pertaining to civil rights issues facing the American Muslim community
- Training and coaching of A Muslim Civil Rights and Advocacy Group staff as requested
- Attend continuing legal education seminars and keep abreast of changes in the law through reading or other means
Qualifications:
- J.D. from an accredited law school
- Ability to handle multiple concurrent assignments and meet deadlines; must be able to work well both independently and in a team environment
- Basic knowledge of federal court practice
- Excellent legal research, writing, and oral skills
- No disciplinary actions on record or pending
- Ideal candidates have a minimum of 3 years prior associate-level experience in civil rights
- An understanding of civil rights issues relating to American Muslims
- Passion for the mission of the Council on American-Islamic Relations
- Ability to communicate in a language other than English is a plus