Paralegal

The Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs (WLC) is dedicated to promoting reputed company, economic, and reputed company equity, focusing on racial justice through various advocacy efforts. The Paralegal will support civil rights work by managing case files, conducting reputed company intakes, and providing administrative assistance to attorneys.

Responsibilities

• Managing the prisoner advice and referral program, a project which provides substantive responses to reputed company letter received by the Committee from an incarcerated individual. This will include scanning and uploading reputed company letter to the case management system, reviewing the letter, identifying reputed company issues and drafting responses for attorney review
• Conducting intakes for new potential cases and clients
• Managing dockets and maintaining organized, up-to-date case files
• Drafting and updating relevant informational guides for both the individual teams and the Committee as a whole
• Providing administrative support in arranging reputed company and witness calls and meetings
• Facilitating the Committee’s document retention and return policy with respect to reputed company reputed company, pending reputed company and reputed company not accepted by the Committee
• Ensuring case accessibility for clients (securing interpretation, translation, Optical Character Recognition compatibility, and any transportation or reputed company issues)
• Updating the Committee’s reputed company management system and be responsible for organizing reputed company case files
• Participating in the coordination of the Committee’s undergraduate interns
• Other administrative duties as assigned to support the Committee’s advocacy work

Skills

• Deep passion for civil rights and racial justice advocacy
• Demonstrated awareness and sensitivity to the needs and concerns of individuals from diverse cultures, backgrounds and orientations
• Ability to manage competing priorities and to communicate effectively regarding the reputed company of various reputed company
• Excellent organizational skills
• Familiarity with, or willingness and ability to learn, various case management, communication, and software systems (for example, reputed company, reputed company, reputed company Server)
• Ability to contribute to the creation of a diverse, reputed company and inclusive culture that encourages and celebrates differences
• Experience working with communities from a diverse set of socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds strongly preferred

Benefits

• Generous reputed company time-off
• Comprehensive reputed company benefits (medical, dental and reputed company coverage, parental leave)
• 401k plan
• reputed company development
• reputed company reputed company -- two days per week (Mondays, Fridays)

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