Supervising Attorney, Immigration

Full Time - Remote Professional Bakersfield, CA, US

Salary Range: $85,000.00 To $ Annually

Supervising Attorney, Immigration

UFW Foundation

Department:
Immigration Legal Services

Reports to:

Directing Attorney, Immigration

Location:

This is a fully remote position, open to candidates based anywhere in the continental U.S.

Salary Range: $85,000–$105,000 annually, depending on experience

Right now, families are being separated faster than the courts can hear their cases. We need someone who won't let that stand. You'll carry a caseload of your own, the same affirmative relief and removal defense work as every attorney on your team. You'll also build the team that keeps showing up after you've moved on to the next case. You'll win a case this week.

You'll train the attorney who wins the next hundred. That is how this work outlasts any one person, including you.

For nearly 20 years, the UFW Foundation has worked to ensure that every farm worker and immigrant has the opportunity to live and work with dignity, safety, and respect. That work now spans two fronts. On one front, we run one of the largest federally accredited immigration legal services programs in California, standing between families and a system that’s separating them faster than courts can hear their cases.

On the other front, we’re building a Workers’ Rights program to confront wage theft, unsafe heat, and retaliation head-on. Farm workers are 35 times more likely to die from heat-related illness than the rest of the U.S. workforce. That is exactly the kind of gap we exist to close. Both programs are growing right now to meet a moment that demands it, from active litigation challenging a federal wage cut in court to public testimony documenting the human cost of immigration enforcement.

Across California, Arizona, Georgia, Illinois, Michigan, New York, and Washington, that’s what a farm worker or immigrant family can expect from us: dignity, safety, and respect, backed by lawyers who show up.

Remote :
This is a fully remote position, open to candidates based anywhere in the continental U.S. Those within commuting distance will have an opportunity to work from one of our California offices.

Travel:
Candidates within commuting distance will travel regularly for court hearings, as well as vis its to community college campus e s, service centers, and trainings . Candidates outside of commuting distance may travel 1-2 times per year for organizational convenings.

Team:
You will lead a team of attorneys, accredited representatives, legal assistants, and fellows, and report to a Directing Attorney.

What follows are the core responsibilities of this role, the work that will fill most of your week. It isn't meant to be a complete list. Casework shifts with client need, court schedules, and whatever the organization needs most in a given season, and no list this short could capture all of that. This gives you a general picture of the role, not a complete list of everything it could include.

Direct Legal Services & Casework

Manage an active caseload across affirmative relief and removal defense: naturalization, DACA renewal, family-based petitions, adjustment of status, asylum, withholding and CAT relief, VAWA, U and T visas, SIJS, and Cancellation of Removal.

Represent clients before USCIS, EOIR, and California state courts, including bond hearings and full removal defense.

Conduct client intake, draft pleadings and applications for relief, and maintain timely, accurate case records.

Deliver Know Your Rights presentations and community college outreach as part of your assigned campus and community lawyering work.

Team Supervision & Development

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