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. We are interested in enhancing opportunities for collaboration with other Legal Aid units and offices, and expanding the Unit’s scope of services.. The staff currently consists of a managing attorney (leaving soon), a staff attorney, a paralegal, and a grants coordinator. In addition to a managing attorney, we are seeking another staff attorney.
Responsibilities:
- Works closely with Legal Aid’s management team
- Maintains relations with the local bar and bench, government, community partners, and funders
- Responsible for the overall management of the unit, including hiring, training, supervising, mentoring, and evaluating staff
- Oversee case assignments and the legal work
- Review and respond to client grievances
- Review timekeeping and inspect closed files to ensure grant compliance
- Communicate and meet with community partners and funders
- Attend trainings with and provide training to community partners and funders
- Supervise the preparation of quarterly and annual grant reports and plans
- Serve as the Legal Aid designee for a major funder, conducting site visits, and participating in audits
- Handle a caseload, perform client intake, and participate in community education and outreach
Qualifications:
- Active Georgia bar license and a minimum of five years of litigation experience
- Experience managing staff, including supervising and mentoring attorneys
- Excellent legal writing and oral advocacy skills
- Excellent interpersonal, communication, and organizational skills
- Ability to work in a collaborative, hybrid team environment, and appreciation of diversity
- 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 $80,000, but will increase or decrease depending on experience. Salaries are reviewed and adjusted annually depending on performance and funding.
- Generous fringe benefits including 18 paid holidays (in 2025), 6 weeks paid time off, 6 weeks parental leave
- Individual health insurance, including optional dental and vision coverage with partial payment for dependents
- Life, long-term, and short-term disability insurance
- 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. New managing attorneys are expected to be in the office every work day initially to become familiar with Legal Aid, the team, and the responsibilities of the position.
- 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; transcript not required for internal candidates who have a transcript on file), 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.