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Florida Rural Legal Services, Inc. (FRLS) · 3 months ago

Family Law Staff Attorney

Fort Myers, FL

Full-time

Hybrid

Mid Level

$68K/yr - $68K/yr

3+ years exp

Florida Rural Legal Services, Inc. (FRLS) is a non-profit law firm that provides free civil legal aid to eligible individuals and vulnerable communities across Florida. The Family Law Staff Attorney will provide civil legal assistance primarily to victims of domestic violence under the VOCA Grant, engaging in responsibilities such as client representation, outreach, and maintaining compliance with legal requirements.

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Responsibilities

Interviews, certifies eligibility, and identifies the legal problems of FRLS clients within a specific area of law and provides clients with appropriate legal assistance in the form of advice, referrals, or actual representation

Participates in outreach

Represents clients in court and before administrative agencies as accepted

Provides documentation, statistical information and other records as required by the Managing Attorney, Advocacy Director, or Executive Director

Participates in case acceptance meetings

Participates in training to keep up CLE’s and required and legally relevant training as may be provided by the program and as mandated by Florida Bar rules

Adheres to office hours, exhibits a strong work ethic and excellent time management skills, communicates, and treats clients and staff with courtesy and respect, provides constructive feedback to other advocates (including paralegals) on cases discussed

Serves as a role model to support staff by promoting the values of hard work, high quality advocacy and treating others with courtesy and respect

Attempts to ensure accessibility of the local office(s) when necessary, by serving clients, including rural clients, non-English speaking clients and client with disabilities

Promotes good relations with public, including client groups, service providers, press, and private bar, attending/speaking at local meetings as appropriate and approved by the Managing Attorney, Deputy Director, Advocacy Director and/or Executive Director

Develops and maintains familiarity with FRLS policies, as well as requirements of LSC and other funders, and adheres to those policies and requirements

Maintains accurate follow-up system to review cases when needed

Performs other duties as assigned

Qualification

Family lawJuris DoctorateBarred in FloridaStateFederal court proceduresMicrosoft SuiteBilingual EnglishSpanishOrganizational skillsInterpersonal skillsCommunication skillsWork collaboratively