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Neighborhood Defender Service of Texas (NDS) has a legal services office providing free, community-based, client-centered, holistic housing defense representation to low-income residents of Harris County. NDS clients are represented by multidisciplinary teams including attorneys, advocates, and team administrators. NDS adheres to a client-centered approach to representation that emphasizes a heightened responsiveness to clients’ needs.
The Harris County Eviction Defense Team plays an integral role in NDS’s fulfillment of its holistic mission and in realizing the right to counsel in housing proceedings. The practice is part of the monumental movement toward a civil Gideon, providing assigned counsel representation to low- and no-income tenants facing a wide range of eviction proceedings in order to safeguard the right to secure, stable housing and combat the destabilization and disintegration of Harris County’s diverse communities. The Staff Attorney is responsible for providing client-centered representation to the clients of the Housing Defense Practice.
THE NEIGHBORHOOD DEFENDER SERVICE OF HARLEM (NDS) is a community-based, client-centered, holistic public defense office located in Harlem, providing civil, criminal and family representation to residents of Northern Manhattan. NDS seeks to hire an experienced: Investigator.
The Criminal Defense Practice at NDS represents residents of Northern Manhattan who are charged with crimes and cannot afford to hire a lawyer. Clients are represented by teams composed of lawyers, investigators, social workers, advocates, and team administrators. NDS also provides pre-arrest representation to clients under threat of arrest. NDS adheres to a client-centered approach to representation that emphasizes a heightened responsiveness to clients’ needs prior to arrest, while a case is pending, and after the case concludes. NDS is committed to addressing the comprehensive legal and social service needs of clients.
NEIGHBORHOOD DEFENDER SERVICE OF TEXAS is a community-based, client-centered, holistic public defender with offices in San Antonio, Houston, and San Marcos. We are seeking a highly organized, self-driven, and resilient individual dedicated to our mission. NDS (Neighborhood Defender Service) Texas represents people charged with felony and/or misdemeanor crimes and others facing eviction and cannot afford to hire a lawyer. Clients are represented by teams composed of lawyers, investigators, social workers, client advocates, interpreters, and team administrators. NDS adheres to a client-centered approach to representation that emphasizes a heightened responsiveness to clients’ needs prior to arrest, while a case is pending, and after the case concludes. NDS is committed to addressing the comprehensive legal and social service needs of clients while treating each client with dignity and respect.
The Program Manager is an integral part of the defense team who demonstrates a commitment to serving marginalized persons and communities. The Program Manager helps shape our present and future—contributing to a collaborative environment and culture of excellence in alignment with our values, working hand-in-hand with and under the supervision of the Managing Director. At NDS Texas, how we represent our clients is as important as individual case outcomes and our ideal Program Manager approaches the cultivation of a positive office culture.
Managing Director
THE NEIGHBORHOOD DEFENDER SERVICE OF HARLEM is a community-based, client-centered, holistic public defense office located in Harlem, providing criminal, civil, and family representation. Neighborhood Defender Service (NDS) clients are represented by multidisciplinary teams. NDS is accepting applications for the position of Managing Director of the Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem office.
Overview
NDS’smission is to make justice a reality for those furthest from its reach. NDS is at the forefront of providing the highest quality legal representation through client-centered community-based, collaborative, and holistic public defense. Pioneering this approach in Harlem in 1990, we have emerged as a leading provider of holistic public defense representation in theUnited States. For more than 30 years, we have steadfastly served the people, families, and communitiesof Northern Manhattan. Expanding our footprint, we opened an office in Wayne County, Michigan(Detroit) in 2019 and, in 2022, established offices in Texas - Houston, San Antonio, and Hays County. Wealso bolstered our commitment to New York City with the opening of a Family Defense Conflict Practicein the Bronx, where we continue to grow the holistic model.
NDS has gained international recognition for our innovative model, consistently paving the way inholistic defense representation for low-income clients. Our scope of work encompasses Early Defenseefforts in both family and criminal defense cases, providing legal representation and social workadvocacy during investigations, pre-filing conferences, as well as pre-arrest and pre-arraignmentrepresentation for eligible residents. We specialize in multi-forum representation, extending across alllegal proceedings, including family, criminal, immigration, housing, employment, public benefits, andasset forfeiture. Moreover, we offer ongoing social services to clients and their families, addressing theunderlying issues that led to their involvement with the legal system or pose a risk of future courtinvolvement.
About NDS Harlem:
NDS Harlem takes pride in delivering exceptional representation to low-income clients facing the potential challenges of family separation, criminal charges, evictions, or other legal matters.Our annual representation spans approximately 5,000 individuals in Northern Manhattan, encompassingEast, Central, and West Harlem, Washington Heights, and Inwood and approximately 300 clients served throughour Bronx Conflicts Team. As a full-service nonprofit public interest law firm, we operate three distinctpractices: Family, Criminal, and Civil Defense. Our approach goes beyond viewing clients as legal cases;instead, we recognize them as complex individuals with full lives, often contending with years ofsurviving under profound racial and economic disparities.
Position Summary
The Managing Director of Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem oversees the programmatic excellenceof the holistic public defense practice with offices in Harlem and the Bronx. The Managing Director fosters a positive, effective, and accountable culture within their team of approximately 175 attorneys, social workers, client advocates, investigators, and support staff. NDS is an organization with a national scope that is still rooted in community-based offices. The incoming Managing Director will excitedly embrace this supportive model, leveraging the resources within the national structure to advance Harlem’s unique priorities and needs. An effective communicator, the Managing Director will understand how to communicate and operate in a complex, matrixed environment,and work across functional areas to ensure the ultimate success of the overall program. This position reports to the CEO(Chief Executive Officer).
THE NEIGHBORHOOD DEFENDER SERVICE is building a community‐based, client‐centered, holistic public defense office in Wayne County and we invite you to join our team as we represent our clients with excellence. Building on 30 years of experience of providing high quality representation, we are expanding our efforts to bring the same caliber of representation to the communities of Wayne County. We are seeking a team of highly organized, self‐driven, and resilient individuals dedicated to our mission. The Criminal Defense Practice at NDS Detroit will represent residents of Wayne County who are charged with felony crimes and cannot afford to hire a lawyer. Clients are represented by teams composed of lawyers, investigators, social workers, client advocates, and team administrators. NDS adheres to a client‐centered approach to representation that emphasizes a heightened responsiveness to clients’ needs prior to arrest, while a case is pending, and after the case concludes. NDS is committed to addressing the comprehensive legal and social service needs of clients while treating each client with dignity and respect.
The Investigator is an integral part of the defense team who demonstrates a commitment to serving marginalized persons and communities. The Investigator will help shape our present and future—contributing to a collaborative environment and culture of excellence in alignment with our values. At NDS Detroit, how we represent our clients is as important as individual case outcomes and our ideal Investigator approaches the cultivation of a positive office culture and the representation of indigent clients with equal rigor and commitment.
THE NEIGHBORHOOD DEFENDER SERVICE is building a community-based, client-centered, holistic public defense office in Wayne County and we invite you to join our team as we represent our clients with excellence. Building on 30 years of experience of providing high quality representation, we are expanding our efforts to bring the same caliber of representation to the communities of Wayne County. We are seeking a team of highly organized, self-driven, and resilient individuals dedicated to our mission. The Criminal Defense Practice at NDS Detroit will represent residents of Wayne County who are charged with felony crimes and cannot afford to hire a lawyer. Clients are represented by teams composed of lawyers, investigators, social workers, client advocates, and team administrators. NDS adheres to a client-centered approach to representation that emphasizes a heightened responsiveness to clients’ needs prior to arrest, while a case is pending, and after the case concludes. NDS is committed to addressing the comprehensive legal and social service needs of clients while treating each client with dignity and respect.
The Capital Trial Staff Attorney demonstrates a commitment to serving marginalized persons and communities and an enthusiasm for holistic defense. The ideal Staff Attorney is an experienced felony trial attorney who demonstrates a commitment to serving marginalized persons and communities, preferably with experience in a public defender office, in a public interest organization, or in the indigent criminal defense context. The Staff Attorney will help shape our present and future—contributing to a collaborative environment and culture of excellence in alignment with our values. At NDS Detroit, how we represent our clients is as important as individual case outcomes and our ideal Staff Attorney approaches the cultivation of a positive office culture and the representation of indigent clients with equal rigor and commitment.
THE NEIGHBORHOOD DEFENDER SERVICE is building a community-based, client-centered, holistic public defense office in Wayne County and we invite you to join our team as we represent our clients with excellence. Building on 30 years of experience of providing high quality representation, we are expanding our efforts to bring the same caliber of representation to the communities of Wayne County. We are seeking a team of highly organized, self-driven, and resilient individuals dedicated to our mission. The Criminal Defense Practice at NDS Detroit will represent residents of Wayne County who are charged with felony crimes and cannot afford to hire a lawyer. Clients are represented by teams composed of lawyers, investigators, social workers, client advocates, and team administrators. NDS adheres to a client-centered approach to representation that emphasizes a heightened responsiveness to clients’ needs prior to arrest, while a case is pending, and after the case concludes. NDS is committed to addressing the comprehensive legal and social service needs of clients while treating each client with dignity and respect.
The Staff Attorney demonstrates a commitment to serving marginalized persons and communities and an enthusiasm for holistic defense. The ideal Staff Attorney is an experienced felony trial attorney who demonstrates a commitment to serving marginalized persons and communities, preferably with experience in a public defender office, in a public interest organization, or in the indigent criminal defense context. The Staff Attorney will help shape our present and future—contributing to a collaborative environment and culture of excellence in alignment with our values. At NDS Detroit, how we represent our clients is as important as individual case outcomes and our ideal Staff Attorney approaches the cultivation of a positive office culture and the representation of indigent clients with equal rigor and commitment.
THE NEIGHBORHOOD DEFENDER SERVICE OF HARLEM (NDS) is a community-based, client-centered, holistic public defense office located in Harlem, providing civil, criminal and family representation to residents of Northern Manhattan. NDS seeks to hire an experienced: Supervising Investigator.
The Criminal Defense Practice at NDS represents residents of Northern Manhattan who are charged with crimes and cannot afford to hire a lawyer. Clients are represented by teams composed of lawyers, investigators, social workers, advocates, and team administrators. NDS also provides pre-arrest representation to clients under threat of arrest. NDS adheres to a client-centered approach to representation that emphasizes a heightened responsiveness to clients’ needs prior to arrest, while a case is pending, and after the case concludes. NDS is committed to addressing the comprehensive legal and social service needs of clients.
Neighborhood Defender Service of Texas (NDS) has a legal services office providing free, community-based, client-centered, holistic housing defense representation to low-income residents of Harris County. NDS clients are represented by multidisciplinary teams including attorneys, advocates, and team administrators. NDS adheres to a client-centered approach to representation that emphasizes a heightened responsiveness to clients’ needs.
The Harris County Eviction Defense Team plays an integral role in NDS’s fulfillment of its holistic mission and in realizing the right to counsel in housing proceedings. The practice is part of the monumental movement toward a civil Gideon, providing assigned counsel representation to low- and no-income tenants facing a wide range of eviction proceedings in order to safeguard the right to secure, stable housing and combat the destabilization and disintegration of Harris County’s diverse communities. The Client Intake Coordinator is responsible for providing client-centered information to the clients of the Housing Defense Practice.
The Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem (NDS) is a community-based, client-centered, holistic public defense office located in Harlem, providing the highest quality representation in criminal, civil, immigration and family courts to residents of Northern Manhattan and the Bronx who cannot afford to hire a lawyer. NDS clients are represented by multidisciplinary teams including attorneys, advocates, team administrators and social workers. NDS is accepting applications within our Family Defense Practice for Staff Attorneys to join immediately as well as for Law Graduates to join in Fall 2024.
Overview
The Family Defense Practice at NDS represents parents in family policing cases (sometimes called “child welfare” cases) filed by the Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) as well as related family court cases, including custody, visitation and termination of parental rights proceedings. Through our holistic approach to representation, the Family Defense Practice provides parents with the help they need—both inside and outside of court—to keep their families safe and stable. Parents are represented not only by a high-quality attorney, but also social workers, team administrators, and parent advocates. NDS is committed to advancing due process rights for parents by fighting unwarranted state intervention in their lives and advocating for related systemic change.
The Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem (NDS) is a community-based, client-centered, holistic public defense office located in Harlem, providing the highest quality representation in criminal, civil, immigration and family courts to residents of Northern Manhattan and the Bronx who cannot afford to hire a lawyer. NDS clients are represented by multidisciplinary teams including attorneys, advocates, team administrators and social workers. NDS is accepting applications within our Family Defense Practice for a Family Preservation Staff Attorney.
Overview
The Family Defense Practice at NDS represents parents in family policing cases (sometimes called “child welfare” cases) filed by the Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) as well as related family court cases, including custody, visitation and termination of parental rights proceedings. Through our holistic approach to representation, the Family Defense Practice provides parents with the help they need—both inside and outside of court—to keep their families safe and stable. However, when clients’ families continue to be separated by ACS and the Family Court after Article 10 Disposition, the risk of termination of parental rights, or the civil death penalty, increases exponentially. Cases at this stage can evolve into complex civil litigation that will benefit from focused attention and experience. As part of NDS’s commitment to advancing due process rights for parents by fighting unwarranted state intervention in their lives and advocating for related systemic change, FDP seeks to hire an experienced attorney to provide direct representation on post-disposition and termination of parental rights (TPR) cases and to establish and develop our Family Preservation practice for all clients who face family separation.
The Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem (NDS) is a community-based, client-centered, holistic public defense office providing free legal representation to residents of Northern Manhattan in criminal, civil and family proceedings.
NDS seeks to hire a current law student to join the Immigration Defense Team for a part-time internship in Spring 2024. As part of NDS’ commitment to holistic representation, the Immigration Defense Team defends Northern Manhattan residents facing removal due to contact with the criminal legal system. In addition to representing clients in removal proceedings, the Immigration Defense Team advises attorneys in our Criminal Defense Practice on the immigration consequences of a criminal conviction. The practice also represents clients in a number of affirmative applications such naturalization, adjustment of status, work permit applications, and more, primarily for clients with criminal history. The legal intern will be involved in client intake, legal research on questions of criminal/immigration law and direct client representation in removal proceedings and affirmative applications.
NEIGHBORHOOD DEFENDER SERVICE
POSITIONS AVAILABLE: Staff Attorneys, NDS Texas (Del Rio) – Operation Lone Star Defense Team
NEIGHBORHOOD DEFENDER SERVICE of Texas is a client-centered, holistic public defense office that addresses the humanitarian crisis at the southern border by providing criminal defense representation and Padilla consultations to individuals arrested by Texas law enforcement along that border through Operation Lone Star.
NDS represents non-citizen clients as well as US-citizen clients who are charged with crimes and cannot afford to hire a lawyer. Clients are represented by teams composed of lawyers, investigators, social workers, client advocates, and team administrators. NDS adheres to a client-centered approach to representation that emphasizes a heightened responsiveness to clients’ needs.
The first office NDS Texas OLS Defense Team office is based in San Antonio and opened in January 2022. A second office opened in Houston in August 2022. Flexible work arrangements and partial telecommuting are available.
THE NEIGHBORHOOD DEFENDER SERVICE OF HARLEM (NDS) is a community-based, client-centered, holistic public defense office located in Harlem, providing criminal, civil, and family representation. NDS clients are represented by multidisciplinary teams. NDS is accepting applications for the position of Senior Accountant.
The Senior Accountant will ensure all compliance with respect to finances within the NDS, Harlem office. Reporting to the Controller, the Senior Accountant will work closely with finance members, executive management, the payroll department and all other required departments to ensure timely and accurate financial reporting, and maintenance of financial data within the Financial Edge reporting system. The senior accountant will also be responsible for accounting and banking, assisting with filing invoices for payments and entering payroll registers.