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Family Law Staff Attorney - Community Justice Unit (CJU)
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- Family Law Staff Attorney - Community Justice Unit (CJU)
- The Legal Aid Society's Criminal Defense Practice is seeking a Family Law Staff Attorney in the Community Justice Unit (CJU) with experience in Family Law and Family Court issues and a deep commitment to anti-violence to support the legal needs of participants across all five boroughs in the City's Cure Violence program.
- The Community Justice Unit, under Legal Aid's Law Reform and Special Litigation Unit, provides legal services, case consultations, and anti-violence services in specific catchment areas in each of the five boroughs through a Crisis Management System based on the ideology of Cure Violence.
- This public health model responds to gun and gang violence through community services such as mediation, legal and social services, and interruption of violence.
- The CJU Staff Attorneys develop relationships with and support the legal needs of Crisis Management System (CMS) partner organizations engaged in the Cure Violence model; provide legal services and referrals to people engaged by our partner organizations as part of the violence-interruption model; and better connect CJU's work with the work of other Legal Aid units in the specified borough.
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