The mission of Bread for the City is to help Washington, D.C. residents living with low income to develop the power to determine the future of their own communities. We provide food, clothing, medical care, and legal and social services to reduce the burden of poverty. We seek justice through community organizing and public advocacy. We work to uproot racism, a major cause of poverty. We are committed to treating our clients with the dignity and respect that all people deserve.

Bread for the City’s Legal Clinic works to ensure access to justice for individuals in our nation’s capital. The Legal Clinic provides front-line civil legal services primarily in the areas of housing, family, immigration, and public benefits law. The Community Lawyering Project (CLP) uses legal advocacy and organizing to help achieve solutions to community-identified issues in ways that develop local leadership and lasting institutions that can continue to exert power to effect systemic change. CLP does this work in collaboration with community members and in coalition with other legal services organizations and advocacy groups in a way that is strategic, while still being responsive to a community's vision and the political landscape. 

Position Description:

The CLP Staff Attorney will provide legal services to tenants and/or tenant associations and assist in the daily operation of Bread for the City’s CLP practice and the Legal Clinic. The CLP Staff Attorney will conduct legal intakes, provide legal advice and brief services, as well as handle a caseload of individual housing-related cases.

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