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We engage in unwavering legal defense and strategic litigation for immigrant children and adults facing detention and deportation in the Capital Region and beyond, because everyone has the right to be free, safe, and supported.\nOur Work Environment:\nAmica Center’s Children’s Program is a highly collaborative work environment. We are committed to providing high-quality, trauma-informed legal and social services and a culture of professional growth and support for staff. Although aspects of our work are completed in smaller teams, we work towards integrated and client-focused services across the program by embracing interconnectivity. We strive to create systems that provide structure while fostering innovation and adaptability. Supervisors in our program share a commitment to teaching, mentorship, and work life balance.\nPosition Summary:\nA Contract Attorney in the Children’s Program works collaboratively with staff and leadership to:\nEnsure that clients receive high-quality legal services while detained and after release to our local area,\nProvide direct legal services to unaccompanied immigrant children,\nTrack time and case work to ensure contractual and grant compliance.\nGeneral Duties and Responsibilities\nRepresentation:\nTakes on (or works with others on) a caseload of full legal representation of clients in removal proceedings before the local immigration courts, USCIS, and state courts in the following types of case: Asylum, Withholding of Removal, protection under the Convention against Torture, Special Immigrant Juvenile Status, U-Visas, and T-Visas.\nManage potential client follow-up after intake, including sponsor intake, assessment of legal relief.\nOrganizational Services:\nAssist other program staff in completion of their workload during high-work/low- bandwidth periods.\nOversee the timely and accurate entry of case information into shared databases.\n[1] This list is illustrative and not intended to be a complete classification of all job functions or tasks.\nCompetencies Required:\nLegal Proficiency\nThe Contract Attorney utilizes their expertise in immigration law and procedure to provide high quality, innovative, client-centered and culturally competent representation. The Contract Attorney stays abreast of developments in the law and ensures that their supervisees are trained in new legal developments. The Contract Attorney competently supervises direct reports and paralegals on legal strategy, research, writing, and client relationships.\nClient and Programmatic Proficiency\nThe Contract Attorney contributes to the effective management of the program's shelter, client, and in-office obligations to ensure that clients receive zealous representation, funding obligations are met, and that the program collaborates effectively within the organization and with peer groups. 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