Managing Attorney jobs in San Francisco, CA

Managing Attorney is responsible for managing the daily operations of a law firm or an organization's legal department. Provides leadership and participates in the most complex legal actions. Being a Managing Attorney directs law office operations, case assignments, and staffing. Oversees the activities and work products of subordinate attorneys. Additionally, Managing Attorney monitors case status, timelines, and issues. Mentors and coaches attorneys and implements staff professional development programs. Requires a JD. Requires State Bar membership. Typically reports to top legal executive. The Managing Attorney manages subordinate staff in the day-to-day performance of their jobs. True first level manager. Ensures that project/department milestones/goals are met and adhering to approved budgets. Has full authority for personnel actions. To be a Managing Attorney typically requires 5 years experience in the related area as an individual contributor. 1-3 years supervisory experience may be required. Extensive knowledge of the function and department processes. (Copyright 2024 Salary.com)

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Managing Housing Attorney
  • Open Door Legal
  • San Francisco, CA FULL_TIME
  • Managing Housing Attorney - San Francisco, CA

    Full-Time, Hybrid

    About Us:

    “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” - Nelson Mandela

    We believe that even the biggest problems can be broken down into small, achievable steps. Poverty and access to justice are part of the same problem. And we’re solving this problem together. At Open Door Legal (ODL), we’re pioneering the country’s first system of universal access to civil legal representation to dramatically reduce poverty and prove that the law really can belong to all of us. We’ve grown 150x in 10 years and in the next 2 years, we hope to finish scaling across San Francisco. To achieve this goal, we’ve created an award-winning and best-in-class legal aid organization full of passionate, motivated, gritty, thoughtful, and team-oriented people. We believe that injustice is the heart of poverty and we're looking for someone to join us in ensuring justice for all.

    Overview of Position:

    Housing has the attention of everyone in the country and especially the SF Bay Area. A safe and healthy home is a universal human need, yet it is consistently unrealized or threatened for those in poverty or those overlooked by our country’s racist systems. All San Francisco tenants have the rare right to receive free legal counsel to help ensure people who call this “cool gray city” home may continue to do so without constant fear of eviction, outrageous rent hikes, or unsafe living conditions. Open Door Legal provides holistic, trauma-informed housing services helping people access everything they need to feel safe and secure in their homes. Through our work we also deter bad actors who prioritize wealth from continuing to disenfranchise low-income San Franciscans.

    We’re hiring a Managing Housing Attorney who will lead, manage, and direct Open Door Legal’s highly-effective Housing Team. Overall, this position is intended to be a challenging and rewarding experience for someone looking to grow in their substantive and strategic leadership and change lives along the way. You should approach problems with curiosity and enthusiasm. Your leadership is demonstrated in the quality of the people you’ve led AND the work you’ve produced together. Cultural humility is not just conceptual to you, you embody it and commit to growth. Success in this role requires grit, dynamism, teamwork, care, and passion (also our team’s five values). You will report directly to our Director of Legal Services

    Responsibilities:

    • Manage the largest department at Open Door Legal to ensure that we are continually pursuing our mission of universal access to legal services with housing-related legal needs. This includes the day-to-day supervision and support of our highly effective and passionate housing attorneys and advocates (currently 5).
    • Hire, train, support, and manage through influence the performance of all housing department staff, interns, and volunteers in collaboration with the Director of Talent and Culture.
    • Drive and implement the strategic vision for Open Door Legal’s housing cases and growth as a department to eventually cover the housing needs of the entire city of San Francisco.
    • Develop and maintain public relations with government agencies, decision-makers, other legal aid organizations, and the community.
    • Drive the creation of uniform systems, checklists, solutions, best practice protocols, and templates to increase the capacity of all team members to deliver consistently high-quality work products with minimal supervision, and ensure you and your team are following best practices.
    • Lead with humility the knowledge management of all areas of housing law for Open Door Legal. Drive the creation of uniform systems, checklists and templates. Along with housing team members, bring and develop innovative solutions to tricky issues around case capacity concerns, intake distribution, case opening standards, verification of quality control and onboarding new attorneys.
    • Directly represent clients which may require court appearances. Ideally spending 20-30% of time on billable case work.
    • Litigate affirmative housing cases in San Francisco Superior Court both solo and with pro bono attorneys as co-counsel.
    • Collaborate and work cross-functionally with the Director of Legal Services and Development team to assist with program design, development, grant administration and funding.
    • Meet with the other practice heads at least bi-monthly to collaborate and coordinate on meeting ODL’s mission.
    • Provide and ensure your team is providing services and support to our low-income clients with sensitivity and awareness to cultural, socio-economic, and disability barriers to service and can skillfully navigate difficult or tense situations. Ensure that the housing department’s client feedback rating continues to be positive.
    • Embrace and embody our values of teamwork, grit, caring, passion, and dynamism.

    Requirements:

    • Membership in good standing with the California State Bar. Applicants without active California bar membership will not be considered. However, those without a license are encouraged to apply to volunteer with us at opendoorlegal.org/volunteer.
    • Minimum of relevant professional experience is six (6) years.
    • Minimum of two (2) years of civil litigation experience.
    • Must show experience directly supervising and building the leadership of staff attorneys and be able to provide references from attorneys supervised.
    • California housing law and superior court civil procedure knowledge.
    • Must genuinely enjoy and be motivated by working with low-income clients, many of whom are people of color, and be able to work effectively with clients impacted by trauma (emotional, mental, and physical).
    • Strong time management skills to effectively supervise and perform legal work in a fast-paced environment and high-volume practice.
    • Show an enthusiasm for and commitment to self-learning and professional development.
    • Excellent writing, editing, and proofreading skills, with the ability to be detail-oriented.
    • Excellent interpersonal and alignment-building skills to excel in providing constructive feedback to people you supervise and in building relationships with other organizations and agencies as ODL's ambassador.
    • High level of comfortability learning and using technology and case management systems. We use Salesforce, Dropbox, and the Google Suite.
    • Must be willing to make a minimum two-year commitment to the organization.
    • This is a hybrid position and will be expected to be in-office at least three (3) days/week.

    Bonus Points:

    • Experience practicing in San Francisco housing court representing tenants in unlawful detainer cases and filing affirmative housing cases in San Francisco.
    • Jury trial experience.
    • Experience representing clients living in subsidized housing (PHA, HUD, Housing Choice Vouchers).
    • Experience working in a high-volume legal aid organization, public defender’s office or similar environment.
    • Having lived a significant period of your life in San Francisco proper.
    • Bilingual in Spanish.
    • Bilingual in Cantonese.

    Starting compensation is $95,500 to $111,500 per year based on experience.

    Benefits:

    • Loan Repayment Assistance - for staff pursuing 10-year public interest debt forgiveness, we will pay the minimum payment on all qualifying loans so that you don’t need to worry about student loan debt (this is a conditional benefit).
    • Medical/Dental/Vision Plan offerings at 100% coverage
    • Generous paid time off (four weeks of paid vacation and two weeks of paid sick/care time)
    • We care deeply about the mental and emotional fitness of our staff and financially invest in staff who pursue ways to address this through a stipend.
    • Flexible work hours
    • Generous paid parental leave
    • 401K/Retirement Account
    • We believe everyone is always learning. We financially invest in professional development for each staff member and provide many internal and external mentorships, coaching, and learning opportunities (conferences, workshops, etc.).
    • We are a fun and hard-working office with best-in-class technology solutions for anyone who’s passionate about making a meaningful and measurable difference.

    Applications will be processed on a rolling basis.

    Ideal starting date: as soon as possible

    Open Door legal is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal records, consistent with applicable federal, state, and local law.

    We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please let us know at whitney [at] opendoorlegal [dot] org.

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Director/Managing Attorney, HAP
  • The Bar Assoc of San Francisco
  • San Francisco, CA FULL_TIME
  • Be part of a critical effort to prevent homelessness in San Francisco. The Justice & Diversity Center of The Bar Association of San Francisco (JDC) advances fairness and equality by providing free leg...
  • 1 Month Ago

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Attorney
  • Acme Corporation Career Center
  • San Francisco, CA FULL_TIME
  • National labor and employment law firm seeking associate attorney with 2-3 years' experience. Firm is well known across the country for their seminars and training. Excellent academic credentials requ...
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Attorney
  • Law Tyme, Inc.
  • San Francisco, CA FULL_TIME
  • Mid-size Law Firm seeks an experienced Associate Attorney with approximately 5 plus years of litigation experience. This Attorney will practice in Civil Litigation, some Commercial Litigation, Constru...
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Attorney
  • Redgrave LLP
  • San Francisco, CA FULL_TIME
  • Redgrave LLP is one of the largest legal practices focused exclusively on addressing the legal challenges that arise at the intersection of the law and technology, including eDiscovery, information go...
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Managing Dentist
  • Sonrava Health
  • San Francisco, CA FULL_TIME
  • Overview Our General Dentists perform a variety of preventative, restorative, endodontic, and surgical procedures that fall under the scope of general dentistry. We’re big on teamwork, so you’ll be wo...
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Grants & Contracts Officer
  • Bay Area Legal Aid
  • Oakland, CA
  • BayLegal seeks a Grants & Contracts Officer with a strong commitment to public interest and social justice advocacy to b...
  • 3/28/2024 12:00:00 AM

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Managing Immigration Attorney
  • Catholic Charities Yolo-Solano
  • Vallejo, CA
  • Job Description Job Description Catholic Charities of Yolo-Solano (CCYS) is a non-profit organization serving low-income...
  • 3/28/2024 12:00:00 AM

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Family Law Attorney - Remote
  • Wade Law Group
  • San Francisco, CA
  • Job Description Job Description This is a growing litigation and family law group focused on serving California individu...
  • 3/28/2024 12:00:00 AM

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Toxic Tort Paralegal
  • Wilson Elser
  • San Francisco, CA
  • Job Description Job Description Wilson Elser's San Francisco office seeks a Paralegal to join the toxic tort practice te...
  • 3/28/2024 12:00:00 AM

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1) Staff Attorney 2) Managing Attorney to Legal Director
  • People With Disabilities Foundation
  • San Francisco, CA
  • Job Description Job Description PWDF seeks a Staff Attorney (SA) and also seeks a Managing Attorney (MA) [to convert to ...
  • 3/27/2024 12:00:00 AM

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Legal Assistant
  • O'Connor, Runckel & O'Malley
  • Walnut Creek, CA
  • Job Description Job Description Law Offices of O’Connor, Runckel & O’Malley, Walnut Creek, CA. Seeking Part-time/Full-ti...
  • 3/27/2024 12:00:00 AM

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Litigation Client Service Specialist
  • Staff
  • San Francisco, CA
  • As a member of the Client Service Team (CST), the Client Service Specialist (CSS) is responsible for providing legal adm...
  • 3/27/2024 12:00:00 AM

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Managing Attorney
  • Modern Family Law
  • Oakland, CA
  • Modern Family Law seeks an experienced Family Law Attorney for an exciting role as Managing Attorney of our Oakland offi...
  • 3/25/2024 12:00:00 AM

San Francisco is located on the West Coast of the United States at the north end of the San Francisco Peninsula and includes significant stretches of the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay within its boundaries. Several picturesque islands—Alcatraz, Treasure Island and the adjacent Yerba Buena Island, and small portions of Alameda Island, Red Rock Island, and Angel Island—are part of the city. Also included are the uninhabited Farallon Islands, 27 miles (43 km) offshore in the Pacific Ocean. The mainland within the city limits roughly forms a "seven-by-seven-mile square", a common local collo...
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Income Estimation for Managing Attorney jobs
$229,049 to $315,435
San Francisco, California area prices
were up 4.5% from a year ago

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