Staff Attorney & Clinical Supervisor

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East Bay Community Law Center (EBCLC) is a non‑profit legal services organization and the community‑based clinical program for U.C. Berkeley Law School. It is one of the Bay Area’s largest and most effective system disrupters. With a dual service and teaching mission, EBCLC is a racial justice organization committed to building a culturally diverse workplace centered on equity. With about 50 staff, 100 clinical law students a year, and a $7 million annual budget, EBCLC is the largest provider of free legal services in Alameda County, providing multimodal, collaborative, and holistic legal services to over 4 000 clients annually and engaging in legislative and policy advocacy at the state and local level.

EBCLC’s Education Defense and Justice for Youth (EDJY) Program, the umbrella program for the Youth Defender Clinic and Education Justice Clinic, provides holistic legal representation to youth in Alameda County, CA. We combine legal advocacy and social work to disrupt the “school‑to‑prison pipeline.” The team strives to uplift the voices and rights of young people—particularly young people of color—through holistic legal representation in Alameda County, local and statewide policy advocacy, and community engagement.

We are hiring a Staff Attorney/Clinical Supervisor to join our dynamic EDJY Program team.

• Represent students in school district expulsions and expulsion appeals, limited related special‑education matters, and district and state administrative complaints.
• Represent youth and adult clients in juvenile record‑sealing cases in juvenile court.
• Teach, train, and supervise Berkeley Law clinical students and summer law student interns.
• Attend in‑person client appointments, court proceedings, and engage in‑person fieldwork to support our clients. Fieldwork typically includes visits to our youth clients’ homes, schools, juvenile detention facilities, and public spaces such as parks and libraries.
• Partner with the Alameda County Public Defender’s Office and other juvenile defense attorneys to advocate for clients in juvenile court.
• Engage with community partners and statewide coalitions to confront the criminalization and incarceration of youth, school push‑out practices, civil rights violations, and the school‑prison nexus more broadly.
• Complete case management tasks.
• Additional projects as assigned by the EDJY Program Co‑Directors.

The ideal candidate is committed to pursuing racial justice and community healing, enthusiastic about engaging in interdisciplinary advocacy in which the lawyer does not always lead, and eager to train the next generation of social justice lawyers. The Staff Attorney/Clinical Supervisor may be eligible for a Senior Staff Attorney title if they complete EBCLC’s requirements for “senior status.”

Starting salary for this full‑time exempt position is $85,000–$103,000, based on the applicant’s law school graduation date, as dictated by the EBCLC salary scale. This is a bargaining‑unit position. Applicants interested in a senior status title must complete the requirements outlined in the 2023‑25 EBCLC Collective Bargaining Agreement before attaining senior status.

Benefits include fully paid health insurance (medical, dental, and vision) for employees and their dependents, life and disability insurance, generous paid leave (vacation, sick, and holidays), flexible spending accounts for qualified health, dependent care, and commute expenditures, and retirement options.

EBCLC is a hybrid workplace. EDJY staff work in EBCLC’s office located on Adeline Street in Berkeley 2–3 days per week. Your supervisor will review EBCLC’s Office Use Protocol with you, which outlines the safety protocols employees are expected to follow when using the office.

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