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Job Description The Legal Aid Society s Criminal Defense Practice has two openings for Supervising Attorneys in the Criminal Appeals Bureau (CAB) unit. CAB provides legal representation for people who have been convicted of a crime and cannot afford to pay an attorney. CAB is the largest post-conviction public defender in New York City, annually serving over 1,000 people with misdemeanor and felony convictions. Through our appellate practice, CAB advocates against the unjust and illegal ...

Job Description The Legal Aid Society s Criminal Defense Practice has openings in the Parole Revocation Defense Unit (PRDU) for Staff Attorneys beginning in the Fall of 2026. A PRDU Staff Attorney represents clients accused of violating their conditions of release at administrative parole revocation hearings and recognizance hearings held in the criminal and supreme courts, federal detention facilities, hospital prison wards and, where applicable, local correctional facilities throughout ...

Job Description The Legal Aid Society s Criminal Defense Practice is seeking an experienced attorney for its Decarceration Project. The Decarceration Project is a first-of-its-kind unit that reimagines how public defenders confront pretrial detention. Through strategic litigation, policy advocacy, and early intervention, the Decarceration Project fights to ensure as many of our clients return to their communities after arrest as possible. Attorneys in the Decarceration Project are Legal ...

Job Description The Legal Aid Society s Criminal Defense Practice has an immediate opening for a Crim-Imm Staff Attorney in the Immigration Justice Team (IJT). The Criminal Defense Practice is the primary public defender in New York City providing holistic, client-centered representation to people facing misdemeanor, felony, and homicide charges. The Immigrant Justice Team advises clients of the Criminal Defense Practice on the immigration consequences of criminal arrests and works to ...

Job Description The Legal Aid Society s Criminal Defense Practice seeks an experienced, committed and talented lawyer to join a team of skilled advocates as a Supervising Attorney in the Prisoners Rights Project (PRP). The Prisoners Rights Project works to protect the legal rights of people incarcerated in New York City jails and New York State prisons. We do so through impact litigation seeking systemic reforms, most often as class actions in federal and state courts; legislative ...

Attorney-in-Charge, Civil Citywide Units#25-189 New York, New York, United States Deadline is 3:00 PM EST for Date Listed Oct 30, 2025 Job Description The Legal Aid Society s Civil Practice is seeking an experienced and talented lawyer with a deep commitment to public interest leadership, practice, and policy. This Attorney-in-Charge of Civil Citywide Units will join a dedicated team of staff across all five boroughs who are representing NYC residents across a broad spectrum ...

Staff Attorney, Adolescent Intervention and Diversion (AID) - (Bronx) #25-108 Bronx, New York, United States Deadline is 3:00 PM EST for Date ListedNov 24, 2025 Job DescriptionThe Legal Aid Society has an opening for an Adolescent Intervention and Diversion (AID) attorney in the Bronx Criminal office. AID is an interdisciplinary team model comprised of Staff Attorneys, Mitigation Specialists and Investigators dedicated to representing teenage clients prosecuted in the adult criminal courts. ...

Staff Attorney, Parole Revocation Defense Unit #25-180 New York, New York, United States Deadline is 3:00 PM EST for Date ListedNov 19, 2025 Job DescriptionThe Parole Revocation Defense Unit has an immediate opening for a Staff Attorney. PRDU represents clients accused of violating the conditions of their release at parole revocation and recognizance hearings in courtroom locations in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens as well as other NYC-located offices and facilities. ...

Criminal Defense Practice Staff Attorney Entry Level Fall 2026 #25-148 New York, New York, United States Deadline is 3:00 PM EST for Date ListedDec 01, 2025 Job DescriptionThe Legal Aid Society's Criminal Defense Practice is seeking dedicated and passionate entry-level Staff Attorneys for trial offices in the five boroughs of New York City. Entry level staff attorneys are defined as those that have 0-3 years of experience in criminal defense, are admitted to practice in the ...

Criminal Defense Practice Staff Attorney Entry Level Fall 2026 #25-148 New York, New York, United States Deadline is 3:00 PM EST for Date ListedDec 01, 2025 Job DescriptionThe Legal Aid Society's Criminal Defense Practice is seeking dedicated and passionate entry-level Staff Attorneys for trial offices in the five boroughs of New York City. Entry level staff attorneys are defined as those that have 0-3 years of experience in criminal defense, are admitted to practice in the ...