Free Speech For Individuals is looking for a public curiosity legal professional, ideally with constitutional legislation, social justice, and/or election legislation expertise, to hitch a cutting-edge non-profit combating for democracy.
Free Speech For Individuals, a nationwide nonpartisan nonprofit group, was based on the day of the Supreme Courtroom’s Residents United v. FEC determination in January 2010. We’ve been working since then on a multi-part technique to defend our Structure and to reclaim our democracy.
Our current tasks embody our 2025 marketing campaign calling upon Congress to question and take away Donald Trump from public workplace for his a number of abuses of energy; our campaigns to finish tremendous PACs and to combat political spending by firms with important international funding; litigation difficult the unlawful intimidation of voters and voter suppression legal guidelines; advocacy to problem the usage of disinformation and the amplification of disinformation by social media corporations to undermine voters’ rights and our democracy; campaigns calling upon state and native officers to hold out felony investigations into the unlawful kidnapping of U.S. residents and extortion of U.S. firms by the Trump administration; and the 14point3 marketing campaign beneath the Fourteenth Modification’s Insurrectionist Disqualification Clause, to problem the qualification for workplace of elected officers concerned within the January 6, 2021 revolt, together with Donald Trump. Most of our tasks contain daring new authorized approaches reasonably than routine software of well-established legislation and, whereas we’re a small group, we punch nicely above our weight.
(For a whole checklist of our points and tasks, go to our site.)
Job duties
We’re looking for a public curiosity legal professional to combat for democracy. Particular tasks will emerge and evolve and job duties will fluctuate over time, however the day-to-day will seemingly middle on litigation (writing or aiding with briefs and/or working with outdoors counsel in affirmative litigation, amicus briefs, and/or defensive litigation if legal guidelines that we assist go 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 businesses. Job duties might also embody occasional 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 (Courtney Hostetler), based mostly in Sharon, MA. The place shall be distant, however might require occasional journey to places across the nation.
{Qualifications}
J.D. and membership in good standing in a state bar
3+ years of expertise
Dedication to public curiosity work and robust intrinsic motivation
Demonstrated skill to work on novel, intellectually advanced authorized points
Sturdy written and oral advocacy expertise
Demonstrated skill to work independently in a nonprofit setting
Most popular: Coursework and/or work expertise in constitutional legislation, social justice, and/or election legislation
Location: The place seemingly shall be distant and candidates will need to have a demonstrated skill to work independently.
Advantages and Wage: Along with a aggressive wage of $75-90K yearly, a complete advantages plan is obtainable, together with 100% employer paid dental, imaginative and prescient, and medical well being protection.
Software directions: Ship a canopy letter, resume, writing pattern that demonstrates your skill to deal with intellectually advanced points, and (for those who graduated fewer than 5 years in the past) legislation college transcript to Oske Buckley 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 fashion that doesn’t discriminate towards any individual due to race, colour, ethnicity, faith, intercourse, sexual orientation, gender identification, gender expression, nationwide origin, age, veteran standing, or bodily or psychological skill unrelated to job efficiency.
