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The Forefront Project , a charitable project of the Hopewell Fund, provides essential pro bono legal services to nonprofit organizations advancing and defending reproductive rights, health, and justice (RRHJ). From 17 clients in its first year to well over 100 in 2024, Forefront has had the honor of supporting a growing network of advocacy, education, and policy organizations, clinics, abortion funds, and state and regional coalitions. These organizations are at the forefront of the RRHJ movement to ensure access to reproductive healthcare and uphold the rights of individuals to make decisions about their bodies, reproductive health, and family life. At this critical time, as The Forefront Project is providing essential legal advice and representation to a large and growing number of RRHJ organizations across the country, they are now seeking nominations and applications for a Senior Staff Attorney who brings strong experience advising nonprofit organizations. This Senior...

Salary Range: $97,750.00 To $123,625.00 Annually POSITION SUMMARY: Western Resource Advocates (WRA) is hiring a Senior Attorney to join our Clean Energy Team. The Senior Attorney, Clean Energy, will represent WRA across the region in state-level administrative proceedings, as well as state and federal litigation as necessary.  The Senior Attorney will independently manage a docket of complex regulatory litigation in multiple states, primarily before state electric utility regulatory agencies, with minimal direct oversight. The Senior Attorney will also identify opportunities to advance WRA’s policy goals in various regulatory proceedings and executes actions to secure those outcomes.  About Western Resource Advocates WRA fights climate change and its impacts to sustain the environment, economy, and people of the West. We respect the different needs of diverse people and partner with them to develop a shared vision for progress—one that advances...

Summary  The Fines & Fees Justice Center (FFJC) is seeking a Senior Advocacy & Campaigns Strategist - NY who will be part of  FFJC’s advocacy team, which includes both staff working in FFJC’s focus states, as well as members of the national advocacy team. This position will be principally responsible for building, strengthening, and maintaining fines and fees reforms in New York State, while building key relationships and providing strategic and technical assistance to partners working to advance fines and fees advocacy across the state. The Strategist will also help build bipartisan coalitions, identify new state and local partners and respond to requests for assistance from advocates, activists, justice system stakeholders and legislators with strategic and technical assistance in the State of New York.  The position requires travel throughout New York to meet with stakeholders, participate in legislative meetings and coalition meetings, and conduct community...

Summary The Staff Attorney helps advance ACLUM’s civil rights and civil liberties agenda in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, across the entire range of ACLU of Massachusetts priority issue areas. The focus of this role is to develop and pursue litigation, perform legal research and analysis, participate in developing strategies for both litigation and non-litigation advocacy, and contribute to ACLUM’s integrated advocacy between departments. This position reports to an assigned Managing Attorney and works closely with members of the Legal Department, cooperating attorneys, and other ACLUM departments to achieve litigation and other advocacy objectives for the organization. The ideal candidate will have legal experience in one or more of the following areas: privacy, surveillance and technology; criminal law and civil litigation challenging various stages of the criminal legal system; race, gender, LGBTQIA+, and/or disability discrimination; or free expression and/or religious...

Summary The Senior Staff Attorney helps advance ACLUM’s civil rights and civil liberties agenda in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, across the entire range of ACLU of Massachusetts priority issue areas. The focus of this role is to lead case teams and develop strategy for litigation, perform legal research and analysis, participate in developing strategies for both litigation and non-litigation advocacy, and contribute to ACLUM’s integrated advocacy between departments. This position reports to an assigned Managing Attorney and works closely with members of the Legal Department, cooperating attorneys, and other ACLUM departments to achieve litigation and other advocacy objectives for the organization. The ideal candidate will have legal experience in one or more of the following areas: privacy, surveillance and technology; criminal law and civil litigation challenging various stages of the criminal legal system; race, gender, LGBTQIA+, and/or disability discrimination; or...