VABAW Job Postings/Opportunities June 2021

Attorney (4+ Years Experience)

Barnard Iglitzin & Lavitt, LLP

Seattle, WA

Barnard Iglitzin & Lavitt, LLP is the Pacific Northwest’s largest and oldest union-side labor and employment firm, seeks a full-time attorney to join our dynamic litigation practice starting in the fall of 2021.  We are looking for a candidate with 4+ years of experience representing unions or otherwise reflecting a demonstrated commitment to social justice and the labor movement. The ideal candidate will be capable, from day one, of handling complex litigation and arbitration and managing a diverse array of organizational client needs. Our clients include, among many others, nurses, hotel, hospital, and homecare workers; flight attendants and pilots; educators; fire fighters; machinists; teamsters; longshore workers; and those in the building trades.  If you are passionate about representing working people, labor organizations, and other organizations devoted to social justice please submit: (1) detailed cover letter, (2) resume, and (3) three references, c/o David Helfer, Executive Director, to helfer@workerlaw.com.  Candidates from diverse backgrounds—including on the basis of race/ethnicity, sexuality and gender identity, and ability—are encouraged to apply. No phone calls, please.

 

Attorney (7+ Years Experience)

Barnard Iglitzin & Lavitt, LLP

Seattle, WA

Barnard Iglitzin & Lavitt, LLP is the Pacific Northwest’s largest and oldest union-side labor and employment firm, seeks a full-time attorney to join our dynamic litigation practice starting in the fall of 2021.  We are looking for a candidate with 7+ years of experience representing unions or otherwise reflecting a demonstrated commitment to social justice and the labor movement. The ideal candidate will be capable, from day one, of handling complex litigation and arbitration and managing a diverse array of organizational client needs. Our clients include, among many others, nurses, hotel, hospital, and homecare workers; flight attendants and pilots; educators; fire fighters; machinists; teamsters; longshore workers; and those in the building trades.  If you are passionate about representing working people, labor organizations, and other organizations devoted to social justice please submit: (1) detailed cover letter, (2) resume, and (3) three references, c/o David Helfer, Executive Director, to helfer@workerlaw.com.  Candidates from diverse backgrounds—including on the basis of race/ethnicity, sexuality and gender identity, and ability—are encouraged to apply. No phone calls, please.

 

Labor & Employment Associate

Dorsey & Whitney

Seattle, WA

Dorsey & Whitney is a trusted legal advisor and valued business partner with 19 locations across the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia. We are a premier legal counselor to companies worldwide in a wide range of industries, including food, beverage & agribusiness; technology; banking & financial institutions; development & infrastructure; energy & natural resources and healthcare.

 We are seeking an experienced Labor & Employment Associate for our Seattle office. To view the full job posting details, please click here. 
How To Apply

You can apply online at www.dorsey.com/careers/attorneys. We have a simple online application form. We do not accept application materials by mail or email except as a reasonable accommodation for qualified disabled applicants. Individuals unable to use our online process due to a disability should call (612) 492-5119.

 

Corporate Counsel

Highspot

Seattle, WA

As Corporate Counsel, you will be part of a team providing legal support throughout the sales cycle for our fast-growing,  global SaaS company. This means a lot of different things and it’s going to change over time. You will also support our growing procurement team and our Highspot Sales Acceleration Partner program. 

Highspot helps sales teams improve customer conversations and achieve their revenue goals. From content optimization and performance analytics to in-context training, guided selling, and more, the Highspot platform delivers enterprise-ready features in a modern design that sales reps and marketers love. Using Highspot, marketing leaders have deep insights and analytics into the performance and influenced revenue of content, campaigns, and marketing assets.  What makes the solution special? It’s loved by sales reps globally, and is the #1 rated sales enablement platform on G2 Crowd. 

 

Various Associate Positions - DWT

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP (DWT)

Location – California, Portland, Seattle

California

 Employment Associate – Mid-Level – Los Angeles or San Francisco – Class Action Focus

 Portland

 Restaurant Business Transactions Associate – Mid-Level – Portland

 Seattle

 IP Litigation Associate – Mid-Level – Seattle

Media Litigation Associate – Mid-Level – Seattle

Employment Associate – Mid-Level – Bellevue or Seattle

 

Staff Attorney

Columbia Legal Services

Kennewick and Yakima, WA

Columbia Legal Services seeks two (2) full-time bilingual (English/Spanish) Staff Attorneys to join our statewide advocacy team. Our staff attorneys engage in systemic, multi-forum legal advocacy and community engagement to dismantle the structures that perpetuate poverty, racism, and other injustices in Washington and increase communities’ access to political power. Due to an increase in funding and advocacy opportunities, we are filling multiple positions and seek a mix of both developing (0+ years) and more experienced candidates. All interested applicants who meet the qualifications are encouraged to apply. The positions are based in Kennewick, WA and Yakima, WA.

Send a cover letter, resume, and a 5-10 page writing sample, in PDF format to careers@columbialegal.org. Please make Eastern WA Staff Attorney your subject line. We accept applications on a rolling basis, with priority given to those received before March 7, 2021. CLS will only contact you if we decide to pursue your application. If you need a reasonable accommodation for the application process, please contact the above email.

 

Resource Attorney – Crimimmigration Team

Washington Defender Association’s Immigration Project

Seattle, WA

 The Washington Defender Association (WDA) is the the statewide support infrastructure for our state’s public defense community. We serve over 1600+ members who are public defenders, investigators and other legal workers representing people facing the consequences of criminal legal system involvement. We are a small but mighty team guided by the belief that everyone belongs in the circle of human concern. We are dedicated to dismantling the barriers to belonging that burden all who are entangled in Washington State’s criminal legal system and disproportionately fall upon Black, Indigenous and People of Color and other marginalized groups, such as noncitizens, differently-abled people, and those with behavioral health challenges, substance use disorder and neurodivergence. 

The Responsibilities of WDA’s Immigration Project Resource Attorney include: 

·                     Defender Engagement: Cultivate and evolve relationships with public defenders and defender offices throughout Washington that: 

o    Ensure defender practices to provide effective assistance to achieve outcomes that avoid or mitigate immigration consequences.  

o    Identify emergent issues and collaborative response strategies; and  

o    Build capacity to leverage defender engagement toward local, state (and national) systemic changes in the criminal and immigration legal systems.   

·                     Immigration Case Consultations: Deliver high quality, timely case-specific support in response to a high volume of assistance requests from defenders. 

·                     Training: Provide webinar and in-person training to defenders, community partners and other criminal legal system stakeholders. 

·                     Resources: Develop practice advisories and other tools addressing immigration consequences of criminal convictions and criminal legal system involvement. 

·                     Systems Advocacy: Engage with community partners and stakeholders to advance systems change advocacy on state and local issues regarding noncitizens who become involved in criminal legal systems; identify opportunities to integrate community partners into WDA advocacy efforts.  

·                     Race Equity Work And Other Organizational Evolution Efforts: Participate in WDA’s internal and external work to actualize our commitments to JustLead Washington’s Race Equity and Justice Initiative (REJI) framework and other projects focused on our growth and development.  

 

Staff Attorney

Northwest Immigrant Rights Project

Tacoma, WA

 Northwest Immigrant Rights Project (NWIRP) seeks a bilingual attorney to provide direct representation, community outreach and education to adults facing removal (deportation) proceedings and people detained by ICE. This role is currently mostly remote due to COVID-19, but will resume to work out of NWIRP’s Tacoma office once operations return to in office.   

The attorney will provide legal representation to individuals in removal proceedings held at the Northwest Detention Center, a regional immigration center where community members are detained by ICE. The attorney will provide direct representation to detained persons in removal proceedings, including representation at the Tacoma or Seattle Immigration Courts, the Board of Immigration Appeals and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. The attorney will be managing a high-volume workload with complex legal issues in immigration and criminal law.