Job Announcement: Seton Hall University School of Law Immigrants’ Rights/International Human Rights Clinic
Brush up those resumes, Seton Hall University School of Law is hiring!
The Immigrants’ Rights/International Human Rights Clinic at Seton Hall University School of Law in Newark, New Jersey, is seeking to hire an experienced attorney to serve as Managing Attorney in its Detention and Deportation Defense Initiative (DDDI) project, to start in January 2021. The Managing Attorney will work with Professor Lori A. Nessel, Director of the Immigrants’ Rights/International Human Rights Clinic, and practitioners-in-residence, post- graduate immigration detention fellows, clinical faculty, and staff in the clinic’s DDDI project. This is a year-round non-teaching position, contingent on renewed funding.
The Immigrants’ Rights/International Human Rights Clinic is one of four partners in an exciting and innovative project, funded by the state of New Jersey, and expanded by Essex County, to provide legal representation to detained immigrants. Seton Hall Law’s Immigration Detention Project currently encompasses two practitioners-in-residence, two clinical faculty members who devote a substantial portion of their time to this work, a post-graduate immigration detention fellow, clinical and extern law students, and a full-time paralegal. In addition to the managing attorney, we anticipate hiring another post-graduate immigration detention fellow, another practitioner-in-residence and another paralegal. The ultimate goal of the Project is to provide universal representation to immigrants detained in New Jersey. The Managing Attorney will represent detained immigrants before the immigration court and Board of Immigration Appeals and/or in habeas petitions before the federal courts (depending on the successful candidate’s interest and experience). The Managing Attorney will also oversee the DDDI project’s operations, including case assignment, hiring, professional development of the office staff, and budgeting, and will supervise the project attorneys and law student interns providing assistance with the project. The caseload for the position will be appropriately reduced to take into account these managerial duties. The position will benefit from the support of a full-time paralegal, devoted exclusively to this project.
Position requirements: • A law degree; • At least five years’ experience representing immigrants, preferably detained immigrants, before the immigration courts, Board of Immigration Appeals, and the federal courts; • Membership in a bar of any state (NJ bar membership or willingness to become a member of the NJ bar is desired); • Ability to work independently and as part of a team (managerial or supervisory experience is desired, though not required); and • Strong written and oral communication skills (fluency in another language, particularly Spanish, is a plus, though not required).
Seton Hall University School of Law is just a block from Newark Penn Station, a short train ride or drive from New York City. Given the COVID-19 pandemic, much of the work is being done remotely at this time, including court appearances, but the Center for Social Justice is open for in-person operations and we anticipate this will be an fully in-person position once safety protocols change. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Interested candidates should submit a cover letter, resume, list of references, and unofficial law school transcript at their earliest convenience. The cover letter should address all of the position requirements listed above. To apply, please go to the Careers at Seton Hall website: https://jobs.shu.edu/cw/en- us/filter/?search-keyword=&category=administrator&category=staff. Seton Hall University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, marital status, affectional or sexual orientation or sex.
-KitJ