AOS Associate Attorney

About the role

The Associate Attorney will be responsible for working on various types of immigration applications and will help supervise and serve as a legal resource to attorney and non-attorney team members. The ideal candidate will have 3 or more years of experience in family-based and humanitarian immigration law and will have a passion to help as many people without documentation legalize their status as possible. They will be a legal professional who advises and represents clients in relation to their legal rights in immigration services. 

What you'll do

• Creatively identify types of immigration relief for which clients might be eligible.
• Strategize on how to advocate for clients and resolve challenging immigration questions.
• Provide leadership, support, and training to attorney and non-attorney team members.
• Audit work product of attorney and non-attorney team members.
• Provide training on, monitor, and enforce ethical obligations for non-attorney team members.
• Answer legal questions from assigned legal support teams.
• Review and edit USCIS applications and supporting materials and complete operational tasks as necessary for legal team to meet operational goals.
• Stay informed about legislative, regulatory, administrative, and case law changes.

Qualifications

• J.D. degree from an ABA-accredited law school and be an active member in good standing of a state bar
• 3+ years of experience in an immigration law firm handling humanitarian, family-based, and nationality immigration petitions and applications including, but not limited to, VAWA, T-Visa, U-Visa, Asylum, Medical DA, Military PIP, I-601, I-192, I-130, I-485, I-90, and N-400
• Experience preparing USCIS petitions and applications and renewal or extensions of the same.
• Bilingual in English and Spanish strongly preferred
• Advocacy-focused approach to representation of clients
• Continued improvement mindset, with an innovative approach to analyzing and improving operations and processes
• Excitement for change and growth
• Leadership skills and strong work ethics
• If located near a Lisinski Law Firm office (within a 60 miles radius) it will be a requirement to work in office
• If working remote currently but an office is being built within that 60 miles radius of your residence, 30 days within the opening of that building it will be an expectation to work from the office