About LSPC
Legal Services for Prisoners with Children (LSPC) is a nonprofit legal organization that fights for the human rights and liberation of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people. We build community power through legal advocacy, policy advocacy, community organizing, and leadership development. Our work is grounded in an abolitionist framework and a commitment to racial and gender justice, and we follow the lead of those with lived experience of incarceration in all our work. Learn more at prisonerswithchildren.org.
Position Description: Staff Attorney
Oakland, CA
About LSPC
Legal Services for Prisoners with Children (LSPC) is a nonprofit legal organization that fights for the human rights and liberation of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people. We build community power through legal advocacy, policy advocacy, community organizing, and leadership development. Our work is grounded in an abolitionist framework and a commitment to racial and gender justice, and we follow the lead of those with lived experience of incarceration in all our work. Learn more at prisonerswithchildren.org.
About The Role:
The Staff Attorney, reporting to the Supervising Attorney, will work with a team of attorneys, policy advocates, community organizers and directly impacted people and their families to directly advance civil legal services in California — in furtherance of LSPC’s mission to:
Release people from jails and prisons
Restore civil and human rights
Reunify families and communities impacted by mass incarceration
As an IOLTA-funded legal support center, LSPC’s primary purpose is the advancement of civil legal services for indigent Californians. Our focus is on the civil rights and civil needs of currently and formerly incarcerated and convicted people, with a current focus on fair chance employment and occupational licensing, sentencing reform (adults and youth), ending predatory collection practices of court-ordered debt, protecting family unity and upending the family policing system, ending involuntary servitude, and advancing fair chance housing, disability justice, and climate justice for incarcerated people.
What You’ll Do:
As an LSPC Staff Attorney, you bring passion and demonstrated commitment to expanding access to justice for communities impacted by policing and incarceration through developing deep expertise in civil legal issues impacting policed communities, individuals experiencing incarceration, reentry legal issues, and collateral legal impacts on the families of those subject to policing and incarceration.
Develop and deliver legal trainings on issues related to the civil and human rights of incarcerated, formerly incarcerated, and convicted persons and their families.
Conduct legal research and deliver legal technical assistance and consultation to civil legal service providers throughout California and nationally.
Partner with LSPC policy advocates and organizers to provide policy advocacy support for civil legal services by serving on coalitions and task forces, conducting legislative and regulatory research, bill analysis and bill drafting, participating in strategy sessions and direct public policy advocacy with legislators, elected officials and other administrative officials and entities.
Provide litigation support for civil legal services through participation in impact litigation which may include drafting and reviewing amicus briefs, fact investigation, legal research and analysis, and serving as co-counsel.
Produce relevant legal resource materials covering a broad array of legal issues impacting incarcerated, formerly incarcerated, and convicted persons and their families.
Actively network, engage and outreach to the civil legal aid community in California to learn about pressing legal issues and collaborate to develop strategic responses to help close the justice gap for incarcerated, formerly incarcerated, and convicted persons and their families.
Review and respond to requests for legal information from incarcerated individuals and their family members.
Train and supervise legal interns.
Participate in and support LSPC’s outreach, organizing and community building events.
Work in conjunction with all LSPC staff members to determine strategic priorities.
Compensation & Benefits
Salary: $85,000-$95,000 annually (full-time exempt)
Health & Wellness: 100% employer-paid health, dental, and vision insurance (including dependents), plus acupuncture and chiropractic coverage
Time Off: Generous vacation, sick leave, and paid holidays, including an office closure at the end of the year
Professional Growth: Opportunities for professional development and leadership training within a supportive, justice-driven team
