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Health Law Partnership Staff Attorney (HeLP)

Atlanta Legal Aid Society (“Legal Aid”) seeks a Staff Attorney for the Health Law Partnership (“HeLP”). HeLP is a community-based, medical-legal partnership between Georgia State University College of Law, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, and the Atlanta Legal Aid Society. HeLP aims to improve the health and well-being of low-income children, who are patients at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, by coordinating services to address legal, social and economic conditions threatening their health.

Legal Aid’s component of HeLP provides legal services to low-income families of children in Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta’s three hospitals: Scottish Rite, Arthur M. Blank, and Hughes Spalding; children seen in Children’s Clinics and physician offices that are part of the Clinically Integrated Network; and children at the Center for Advanced Pediatrics. Legal Aid attorneys are located at each of the three hospitals, and at the Center for Advanced Pediatrics.

Responsibilities: 

  • Conducting client intake, and providing referrals, advice, brief service, or representation in a variety of civil legal matters affecting children’s health, including public benefits and health insurance, poor housing conditions, disability rights, access to educational services, and family law.  
  • Training and coordinating with doctors, social workers, and other health care professionals 
  • Working with students in law, medicine, social work, public health, and bioethics
  • Participating in task forces and committees of service providers

Qualifications: 

  • Active member in good standing in the State Bar of Georgia
  • Minimum of two years of relevant legal experience
  • Strong work ethic and adaptability
  • Excellent legal writing and oral advocacy skills
  • Excellent interpersonal, communication, listening, and organizational skills
  • Ability to balance compassion and pragmatism 
  • Demonstrated ability to work independently and in a collaborative, hybrid team model, with an appreciation for diversity
  • Eagerness to learn and openness to feedback
  • Demonstrated commitment to public service, participation in law school clinics or trial advocacy courses, familiarity with poverty law, and previous work with low-income people are strongly preferred 
  • Proficiency in languages other than English is highly valued
  • Candidate will need to comply with Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta health screening and immunization requirements

Salary and Benefits: 

  • The salary is $63,750, depending on experience. Salaries are reviewed and adjusted annually, depending on funding.
  • Generous fringe benefits, including 18 paid holidays in 2025, 6 weeks of paid time off (accruing at 2.5 days per month) in the first two years, and 6 weeks of parental leave (12 weeks after one year)
  • Individual health insurance, including optional dental and vision coverage, with partial payment for dependent health insurance
  • Life, and long 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
  • State Bar of Georgia dues and CLE expenses 
  • This position may be eligible for Public Service Loan Forgiveness through the U.S. Department of Education.
  • Legal Aid offers a hybrid work schedule that allows staff to work 2 days remotely subject to management approval and a probationary employment period.

 

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 e-mail addresses of three professional references (preferably individuals who have supervised or managed your work) with a brief statement as to the connection to the applicant, as one (1) PDF using our online application system at the following link: Atlantalegalaid.org/jobs.  Only applications with all the requested documents will be considered for an interview.

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

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

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