Staff Attorney - Tenant Rights Coalition
Position Overview
Job Description
Legal Services NYC (LSNYC) fights poverty and seeks racial, social and economic justice for low-income New Yorkers. For over 50 years, we have challenged systemic injustices that trap people in poverty and provided legal services that help our clients meet basic needs for housing, income and economic security, family and immigration stability, education, and health care. LSNYC is the largest civil legal services provider in the country; our staff of more than 600 people in neighborhood-based offices and outreach sites across all five boroughs helps hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers annually. We partner with scores of community-based and client-run organizations, elected officials, public agencies, pro bono lawyers, and the courts to maximize our effectiveness. Our work fights discrimination and helps to achieve equity for all low-income New Yorkers.
LSNYC employees have numerous opportunities for growth and professional development, including access to our internal Justice Learning Center, which provides opportunities to earn free CLEs and gain experience as a trainer.
BROOKLYN LEGAL SERVICES
STAFF ATTORNEYS, TENANT RIGHTS COALITION
Brooklyn Legal Services seeks two Staff Attorneys for its Tenant Rights Coalition. This is a staff position based in our Brownsville, Brooklyn office.
About us
Brooklyn Legal Services (BLS), part of Legal Services NYC (LSNYC), is a civil legal services organization with a mission to fight poverty and seek racial, social, and economic justice on behalf of low-income New Yorkers. Our office provides a wide range of civil legal services and balance individual case representation, impact litigation and policy advocacy, as well as outreach, education, and trainings, in various subject areas. We have a wall-to wall union that includes attorneys, paralegals, social workers, and support staff. As a community-centered, social justice organization, BLS is committed to fostering an inclusive and equitable workplace where staff and clients feel welcome. Through our various affinity groups and committees, we actively work to foster collegial relationships among staff and allow staff to explore and grow in our understanding of and challenge systemic barriers within our organization and through our legal work. All employees are expected to learn about and seek to understand, identify and overcome barriers to justice from individual preconceptions to structural barriers and work to realize our organizational goals and mission.
The Tenant Rights Coalition (TRC) is a team of approximately 20 legal workers performing anti-displacement work in partnership with tenant leaders and community organizers throughout Brooklyn to combat the impacts of gentrification and greed. Our Unit is based in a community office in Brownsville; however, our day-to-day work includes but is not limited to, supporting tenant association meetings at buildings in south, central, and east Brooklyn neighborhoods, defending against and/or asserting claims in Housing Court, Supreme Court, Appellate Court, Federal Court, and/or at various administrative agencies, conducting workshops and trainings, staffing multiple monthly clinics, and supporting local and statewide coalition work. The Staff Attorney will work closely with the TRC team and our community partners to support Brooklyn tenants through bold and creative litigation and advocacy in multiple forums with an ever-changing legal landscape. Occasional evening and weekend hours may be necessary.
Responsibilities include:
- Manage high volume, diverse caseload that includes both individual and group cases;
- Staff and/or lead various workshops, trainings, and clinics, both on and off-site;
- Attend and/or lead team meetings and substantive trainings;
- Attend and/or support tenant meetings at buildings throughout Brooklyn, including some evenings and weekends;
- Prepare and appear at multiple court appearances in various forums, including responsibility for all aspects of litigation from client interviews, legal research and writing, to conducting hearings and trials;
- Support local and statewide coalition spaces to support larger organizing goals of our community partners and tenant leaders;
- Work well within teams of multiple stakeholders – including legal and non-legal work...
Perks & Benefits
Practice Area
General Practice
Position
Mid
Applicant Location Requirements
Applicants must be located in: US
Application Contact
Contact: Legal Services NYC Hiring Team
Application Deadline
June 22, 2026
Employment Type
Full time
