Free Speech For Individuals is looking for an skilled public curiosity legal professional to hitch our cutting-edge authorized workforce as Senior Counsel. Very best candidates may have civil rights, marketing campaign finance, anti-corruption, and/or election legislation expertise, and be ready to take a number one position in our work to defend our Structure and our democracy and to satisfy the promise of political equality for all.
Free Speech For Individuals, a nationwide nonpartisan nonprofit group, was based on the day of the Supreme Courtroom’s Residents United v. FEC resolution in January 2010. We’ve been working since then on a multi-part technique to reclaim our democracy.
Our latest initiatives embody litigation difficult unlawful intimidation of voters, voter suppression legal guidelines, and insecure voting techniques; public advocacy to problem corruption on the US Supreme Courtroom; the 14Point3 litigation and grassroots advocacy marketing campaign underneath the Fourteenth Modification’s Insurrectionist Disqualification Clause in opposition to present and former elected officers concerned within the January 6, 2021 revolt; growing, lobbying for, and defending cutting-edge laws to struggle political spending by firms with vital overseas funding and to eradicate tremendous PACs; and growing and lobbying for complete mannequin laws to carry social media firms accountable after they interact in focused amplification of disinformation and threats of violence on their platforms. Most of our initiatives contain daring new authorized approaches quite than routine software of well-established legislation and, whereas we’re a small group, we punch effectively above our weight.
(For an entire checklist of our points and initiatives, go to our website.)
Job duties
Particular initiatives will emerge and evolve and job duties will fluctuate over time, however the day-to-day will probably middle on litigation (serving as lead counsel, often together with outdoors counsel in complicated, affirmative litigation, amicus briefs, and/or defensive litigation if legal guidelines that we assist cross are challenged in courtroom), laws (drafting; grassroots and direct lobbying; testifying; and organizing supportive testimony), and authorized help for the group’s advocacy earlier than administrative companies. Senior Counsel can also play a task in supervising attorneys, authorized fellows, and interns. Job duties can also embody media interviews; public talking; writing op-eds; organizing panels, symposia, or comparable occasions; and dealing with our marketing campaign and communications groups on our grassroots campaigns.
The legal professional will report back to Free Speech For Individuals’s Authorized Director, primarily based in Massachusetts. The place would require occasional journey to places across the nation.
{Qualifications}
J.D. and membership in good standing in a state bar;
5-7+ years lawyering expertise, which can embody judicial clerkships;
Expertise with influence litigation, different types of civil litigation, or appellate litigation;
Dedication to public curiosity work and robust intrinsic motivation;
Demonstrated potential to work on novel, intellectually complicated authorized points;
Sturdy written and oral advocacy expertise;
Demonstrated potential to work independently in a nonprofit setting with a distant workspace;
Demonstrated potential to develop and preserve collaborative relationships with colleagues, professional bono counsel, shoppers, grassroots organizers, and different stakeholders;
Most popular, however not required: expertise in constitutional, civil rights, and/or election legislation.
Location: Distant, with occasional journey.
Advantages and Wage:Â Along with a aggressive annual wage starting from $100,000-120,000 relying on expertise, a complete advantages plan is obtainable, together with 100% employer paid dental, imaginative and prescient, and medical well being protection.
Utility directions:Â Ship a canopy letter, resume, and writing pattern that demonstrates your potential to handle intellectually complicated points to Rosemary Hamington at:
legal professional (at) freespeechforpeople (dot) org
Free Speech For Individuals is an affirmative motion employer and recruits, employs, retains, and promotes individuals in a way that doesn’t discriminate in opposition to any individual due to race, shade, ethnicity, faith, intercourse, sexual orientation, gender identification, gender expression, nationwide origin, age, veteran standing, or bodily or psychological potential which is unrelated to job efficiency.
