Job Description
Attorney, Northeast Florida Medical Legal Partnership
Jacksonville Area Legal Aid (JALA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing legal assistance and advocacy for low-income individuals and families. We work to ensure access to justice and fair treatment in the areas of housing, consumer rights, family law, and other essential legal services. Learn more about our work at
POSITION SUMMARY
JALA seeks a dedicated Florida-licensed attorney to manage its Northeast Florida Medical Legal Partnership (NFMLP). This is a full-time position based in JALA’s downtown Jacksonville office. The attorney will have to spend three days per week onsite at Wolfson Children’s Hospital, where the attorney will screen patients for health-harming civil legal aid needs, attend clinical meetings with healthcare providers, and conduct intake and case placement for patients identified as needing civil legal services. The attorney will also be expected to handle a small caseload. Experience in housing or special education law is preferred.
What you get when you come to JALA
JALA is the premier litigation legal aid firm in the Southeastern United States. We are mission-driven, and our team makes a difference in our community. As a JALA employee, you can expect immediate hands-on experience interviewing and counseling clients as well as litigating cases in Federal and State courts.
Staff can expect to take on challenging cases for our at-risk clients while being mentored and supported in taking on such cases. While there is a premium placed on initiative and self-motivation, you can expect to be supervised by lawyers who are recognized as subject matter experts in their field (JALA is the only law firm in Florida with three Florida Bar Consumer Protection Lawyers of the Year on staff, for example).
Our lawyers and paralegals regularly serve on local and statewide committees, and our lawyers have gone on to become hearing officers, magistrates, judges, and administrative law judges. In addition to the opportunity to litigate early, our lawyers and staff are trusted as professionals - we have adopted a hybrid work environment (although not all positions are able to work remotely). Regardless of what others may prefer, we embrace diversity and inclusion as a way to ensure we are the most prepared to offer the best and highest level of representation for clients, as this is what they deserve from us.
Salary/Benefits
Salary commensurate with experience. Sign-on bonus. Benefits package include, but are not limited to, hybrid work model, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability insurance, group life insurance, 401(k) (match 100% of deferrals up to 6% of compensation), generous leave policy (13 paid holidays plus 22 personal leave days in first year, one-month sabbatical every four years), and membership in Access Perks, a private discount network.
Responsibilities:
- Applicant intake and client interviews.
- Advice and counsel for individuals seeking legal assistance.
- Possible representation of clients in administrative and/or court hearings.
- Handle clinics and outreach events.
- Comply with grant requirements.
- Coordinate and advertise four topic-specific legal trainings for healthcare providers per year.
- Present at grand rounds and assist with training and education of medical residents and fellows on the Medical Legal Partnership model and other relevant areas of civil legal aid.
- Identify systemic issues with which the NFMLP and healthcare providers can partner.
- Collect and analyze health provider referral data and case outcomes to demonstrate the fiscal impact on the healthcare system.
- Draft bi-annual reports and coordinate meetings of healthcare provider stakeholders.
- Participate in the development and improvement of the Medical Legal Partnership model statewide and nationally.
- Seek and apply for grant funding opportunities to further Medical Legal Partnership models.
- Perform other duties and projects as required by supervisor and/or management.
Qualifications:
- Excellent interpersonal skills.
- Member in good standing of The Florida Bar.
- Minimum of 1 to 4 years’ experience in the practice of law, preferably within legal aid services.
About Company:
The mission of Jacksonville Area Legal Aid, Inc. is to provide high-quality legal assistance to low-income and special needs groups, to empower them to accomplish energetic and affirmative advocacy, all to alleviate the circumstances, incidents, and causes of poverty and discrimination.
Developed during the Great Depression and subsequent recession of 1937, the organization that has become Jacksonville Area Legal Aid, Inc. JALA was born when a group of Jacksonville Bar attorneys banded together to provide legal services to those in need.
Called different names over the years, including Duval County Legal Aid Association, it was officially named Jacksonville Area Legal Aid in 1973. The organization achieved 501(c)3 status in 1976. JALA now serves 17 counties of North Florida, including Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Dixie, Duval, Gilchrist, Hamilton, Lafayette, Levy, Madison, Nassau, St. Johns, Suwannee, Taylor, and Union.
Job Tags
Full time, Work at office, Local area, Immediate start, Remote work, Relocation package, 3 days per week,