Paralegal
Location: Hempstead, New York
Description: Hofstra University is at present recruited Paralegal right now, this job will be placed in New York. More complete informations about this job opportunity please read the description below. Disaster Recovery Law Clinic, Maurice A. Deane School of Law, Hofstra University
Hofstra Law School, located in Hempstead, NY, is seeking to hire a Visiting Associate Clinical Professor of Law and a Visiting As! sistant Clinical Professor of Law to join our Disaster Recovery Law Clinic, which provides free legal assistance to individuals and small businesses impacted by "Superstorm" Sandy. Although the storm has disappeared from the national news headlines, many in our local communities are still in great need of legal help in its wake. These are expected to be two-year temporary positions that will begin in January 2014.
In the Disaster Recovery Law Clinic, second- and third-year law students represent people affected by the storm in Long Island and the Rockaways. The clinic’s legal work exposes students to both litigation and transactional practice. Clients include homeowners in disputes with insurance companies; tenants in disputes with landlords; individuals seeking public benefits or appealing adverse benefits determinations; homeowners contracting with, or in disputes with, general contractors; and non-profits and community organizations either affected by the stor! m or providing assistance as part of the ongoing disaster reco! very effort. Students engage in client interviewing and counseling, fact investigation, legal research, strategic decision-making, document drafting, mediation, negotiation, and litigation. Because the focus of the clinic is to provide wide-ranging services to people in need, many areas of the law are relevant to the course: administrative law, construction law and contracts, environmental law, insurance law, land use, and property and real estate, among others.
The clinic is a one-semester, 6-credit course for students, with a two-hour classroom seminar each week. The seminars develop students' skills in interviewing, counseling, drafting, negotiation, fact investigation, and trial techniques, and include in-depth discussions on substance and procedure. Our mission is to provide students with a rigorous, hands-on learning experience and the opportunity to develop into skilled, passionate, and ethical lawyers while serving the legal needs of our local communities. ! We seek not just to provide the experiences of an actual law practice to our students, but to teach our students how to learn from those experiences, and how to translate the knowledge they have gained in their non-clinical law school courses into client representation.
The new hires will be joining the current Clinic Director as we expand from an eight-student clinic to a sixteen-student clinic with separate transactional and litigation tracks. Attorney applicants may be considered for both the more senior and more junior professor positions.
Paralegal
The Paralegal for the Disaster Recovery Clinic will have the primary responsibility for conducting intake interviews for potential new clinic clients, and for providing callers we cannot help with referral information for other legal or social services providers. The Paralegal will also be responsible for the daily office management of the clinic, including creating and maintaining our hard-copy ca! se files and maintaining and updating our Time Matters database.
To apply: Please submit a letter of interest, resume or C.V., and a list of references or letters of recommendation via email only to Yvonne Atkinson at the Maurice A. Deane School of Law, Hofstra University, Yvonne.V.Atkinson@hofstra.edu . Inquiries may be directed by email to Michael Haber, Cl! inic Director, at michael.haber@hofstra.edu .
The deadline to apply is November 30, 2013.
Hofstra University is an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering diversity in its faculty, administrative staff and student body, and encourages applications from the entire spectrum of a diverse community.
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