Pay: $113,000.00 - $125,000.00 per year
Why This Is a Great Opportunity
- Make a meaningful impact by representing educators in important workplace and education law matters.
- Handle substantive cases involving discipline, credentialing, compensation, accommodations, layoffs, leaves, transfers, and more.
- Build valuable experience across administrative proceedings, employment disputes, negotiations, and legal counseling.
- Join a mission-driven team that has championed workers, educators, unions, and employee rights for decades.
- Enjoy a hybrid schedule with flexibility between our Sacramento and Oakland offices.
- Receive strong benefits including employer-paid family medical, dental, and vision coverage, profit sharing, 401(k) matching, student loan assistance, commute support, and a monthly work-from-home subsidy.
- Take on meaningful responsibility while working alongside experienced attorneys in a collaborative environment.
Location
Sacramento, CA or Oakland, CA | Hybrid schedule with three in-office days and two remote days each week.
Note
Must be admitted to and in good standing with the California Bar and have a J.D. from an ABA-accredited law school. Education law experience is a plus, but not required.
About Us
We are a progressive law firm dedicated to representing workers, educators, unions, and employee benefit plans in meaningful legal matters. Our team combines sophisticated legal advocacy with a strong commitment to workplace rights, collaboration, and professional growth. Confidential Employer.
Job Description
- Represent educators in Education Code disciplinary proceedings before the Office of Administrative Hearings.
- Handle credentialing matters before the Commission on Teacher Credentialing.
- Represent educators in disputes with school districts involving pay, classification, disability accommodations, layoffs, leaves, transfers, tort claims, and related issues.
- Provide advice and counsel to educators on a wide range of employment and workplace matters.
- Manage intake and an active caseload of approximately 20 to 30 cases per month.
- Conduct legal research and develop effective case strategies.
- Draft pleadings, briefs, legal memoranda, correspondence, and other legal documents.
- Participate in administrative hearings, negotiations, and other proceedings.
- Communicate directly with clients and provide thoughtful, practical legal guidance.
- Collaborate with attorneys across the practice while independently managing assigned matters.
Qualifications
- J.D. from an ABA-accredited law school.
- Active California Bar membership in good standing.
- Strong legal research, writing, analytical, and oral advocacy skills.
- Excellent judgment, communication, organization, and time-management abilities.
- Ability to manage a substantial caseload in a fast-paced environment.
- Labor and employment law coursework expected.
- Education law experience is preferred but not required.
- Experience in labor and employment, plaintiff-side employment, union representation, public interest, administrative law, or related litigation is highly relevant.
- Genuine interest in workers' rights, educators, and the labor movement.
Why You Will Love Working Here
You'll have the opportunity to build a rewarding legal practice while representing educators in matters that can directly affect their careers and working lives. We offer meaningful responsibility, professional growth, strong benefits, and a collaborative hybrid environment where attorneys can make a real difference.
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Benefits:
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Retirement plan
- Vision insurance