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Job Description The Legal Aid Society s Criminal Defense Practice seeks an experienced, committed and talented lawyer to join a team of skilled advocates as a Supervising Attorney in the Prisoners Rights Project (PRP). The Prisoners Rights Project works to protect the legal rights of people incarcerated in New York City jails and New York State prisons. We do so through impact litigation seeking systemic reforms, most often as class actions in federal and state courts; legislative ...

Job Description The Legal Aid Society s Criminal Defense Practice is seeking an experienced attorney for its Decarceration Project. The Decarceration Project is a first-of-its-kind unit that reimagines how public defenders confront pretrial detention. Through strategic litigation, policy advocacy, and early intervention, the Decarceration Project fights to ensure as many of our clients return to their communities after arrest as possible. Attorneys in the Decarceration Project are Legal ...