Employment Opportunities at MLRI

MLRI has occasional need for law student and volunteer assistance.  When we do, we will post a general invitation below giving information about the steps you should take.

On more rare occasions, we have employment opportunities.  Any such opportunities will also be listed below giving complete details about the position and information about how to apply.

Immigration Lawyer

Massachusetts Law Reform Institute,  a statewide legal services advocacy and support center for low-income people and their advocates, seeks a creative and energetic lawyer to expand its immigrant rights program.  Working together with MLRI’s senior immigration lawyer, Iris Gomez, this lawyer will engage in multi-faceted systemic advocacy on immigration law and immigrant rights issues in order to protect low income immigrants’ access to legal status and right to fair treatment from federal immigration authorities and to achieve equal treatment from state and local government irrespective of race, ethnicity and unfair immigration status restrictions.  The lawyer’s responsibilities will include policy advocacy to governmental agencies, impact and appellate litigation (including amicus briefs), and legislative advocacy, as well as technical assistance and legal support to advocates throughout Massachusetts—such as training and legal rights education and related activities that build the institutional strength of organizations critical to our mission.  A minimum of three years of experience in the immigration law/immigrant rights field is required.

Salary is based on a scale commensurate with experience.  MLRI pays all costs of employee benefits except for co-pays imposed by health care providers.   MLRI is an employer that welcomes diversity among its staff.

Please send a resume and information on at least three work references to Allan Rodgers, Executive Director, at the address listed above, by March 7, 2008.