Executive Team - Managing Attorney

Managing Attorney 

 (Full-Time, Exempt Position) 

Inner City Law Center (ICLC) is a nonprofit law firm located in the Skid Row neighborhood of Los Angeles. We are looking for extraordinary people to help us end homelessness in Los Angeles. Founded on the fundamental principle that every person should always be treated with dignity and respect, ICLC fights for justice for low-income tenants, working-poor families, people who are disabled or experiencing homelessness, people living with HIV/AIDS, and homeless veterans. 

Position Description: ICLC seeks a highly-motivated Managing Attorney who will become a member of ICLC’s Executive Team and has primary responsibility for ensuring that ICLC provides high-quality legal services; that ICLC’s programs are impactful, efficient, client-centered, and evaluated; that all program deliverables are met; and that our legal representation is consistent with ICLC’s values, vision, and strategic goals. The Managing Attorney directly supervises the leaders of multiple ICLC program teams that provide direct legal services to clients. 

Responsibilities: 

• Directing, supervising, supporting, managing, hiring, training, motivating, counseling and annually evaluating Project Directors to ensure that they:
  • Effectively lead and manage a diverse team in an equitable and inclusive manner. 
  • Understand the interplay between staffing, funding, and caseloads.
  • Develop, implement, and manage team goals, objectives, work plans and policies. 
  • Effectively manage staffing, funding, and cases, develop and manage budgets, meet grant deliverables and other target metrics, ensure effective case management, and report accurate results and client outcomes.
  • Support a healthy work environment that promotes effective legal representation, professional development, open communication, and accountability.
  • Develop and retain high-performing staff by properly directing, supervising, supporting, managing, hiring, training, motivating, counseling and annually evaluating legal advocates and legal support staff.
  • Establish and maintain productive relationships with program funders and funding agencies; ensure flow of information moves between teams and to executive leadership for effective advocacy and program improvement efforts. 

• Partnering with ICLC’s Pro Bono Director to develop relationships with pro bono counsel at some of the highest-profile law firms in the city and with Project Directors to effectively leverage pro bono resources.
• Partnering with the Director of Strategic Initiatives and Director of Program Operations to identify and support cross program initiatives that improve integration of systems, tracking of client data, and quality of client services and experience.
• Partnering with the COO to ensure that ICLC’s commitment to DEIA is infused in every facet of ICLC’s programs.
• Partnering with the Chief Financial Officer in the annual budgeting process.
• Partnering across all ICLC departments to ensure there is clear programmatic alignment between policy, development, and operational strategies.
• Serving as an ICLC ambassador to community partners and government agencies.
• Perform other duties as assigned. 
   

Hiring Criteria: Commitment to ICLC’s mission and values. Mission driven and dedicated to eradicating homelessness and dismantling the systems that contribute to it. Committed to equity, diversity, and racial justice. J.D. and admitted to practice law in the State of California or elsewhere. At least ten years of relevant experience, including at least three years of direct management and supervision experience. Effective at leading and managing a diverse team in an equitable and inclusive manner. Organized, detail oriented, and able to assume responsibility quickly and independently. Creative, strategic, and solution-oriented problem solver. Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Access to reliable transportation.