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Staff Attorney, Elder Law Unit (Job46)
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- Brooklyn Legal Services (BLS) seeks a Staff Attorney for its Elder Law Unit.
- BLS focuses on the problems that have the greatest impact on our clients — preserving affordable and decent housing, maintaining income support, redressing abusive lending and consumer practices, promoting family stability and mitigating the effects of domestic violence, and advocating for older adults and people with disabilities.
- The Elder Law Unit is a general practice unit designed to provide comprehensive legal services to Older Adults residing in Brooklyn.
- The mission of the Unit is to assist Older Adults to maintain their independence and to be able to live with dignity, and we accomplish our mission through legal representation, affirmative litigation, collaboration with community-based organizations, and education and outreach.
- The Unit assists in a broad range of civil legal needs, including public assistance and other benefits, social security, healthcare and home care, housing, advance directives and permanency planning, consumer debt, guardianship, and elder abuse.
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