About Lone Star Justice Alliance Lone Star Justice Alliance (LSJA) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit legal organization with offices in Austin and Dallas, Texas. Since its launch in 2017, LSJA has been committed to systemic change in the broken and flawed justice system for youth and emerging adults. LSJAs far reaching and unwavering voice of change extends from local communities and its youth partners to the halls of the Texas State Legislature. LSJA envisions a justice system that uses developmentally appropriate responses to behavior and treats youth and emerging adults with equity and dignity to promote resilience, conserve costs, and increase public safety. LSJA boldly addresses systemic failures in the justice system through advocacy and innovative evidence-based programs that improve life outcomes for youth and emerging adults. LSJAs holistic approach to systemic reform is one of advocacy and action! While advocating for legislative and policy reform, LSJA has also successfully launched innovative and scalable evidence-based grassroots community programs that manifest a more equitable and humane justice system for youth and emerging adults. From local courtrooms to the United States Supreme Court, LSJA seeks to create a path for a more equitable and humane justice system for youth and emerging adults in Texas and across the country. LSJA has relationships with academia including institutions such as University of Texas - Austin, Southern Methodist University, and Cornell. These relationships, and similar future relationships, contribute to LSJAs nationwide impact. For more information on the Lone Star Justice Alliance please visit its website at https://www.lonestarjusticealliance.org/. The Opportunity The Lone Star Justice Alliance (LSJA) is seeking an experienced attorney with litigation experience to direct its growing legal staff. The perfect candidate is a change-maker who is interested in leading the field of criminal and juvenile justice reform in Texas and will be highly motivated, hard-working, and embrace LSJAs mission and program goals enthusiastically. With experience in trauma-informed lawyering and crafting client-centered narratives, the Legal Director will hold responsibility for the following: Developing the legal and policy strategies for the JustSentening Department by implementing LSJAs mission, accomplishing LSJAs goals and adhering to LSJAs values; Supervising a team of 3-5 attorneys and 10-12 legal interns; Conducting intakes, providing legal advice and support, making strong referrals, and taking on cases for representation as appropriate; Advising, counselling, and representing child clients with legal matters; Conducting depositions, producing interrogatories, and generally engaging in contested discovery matters; Staying up to date on state and federal laws and policies pertaining to criminal and juvenile justice, the school-to-prison pipeline, and collateral consequences in the criminal justice system; Maintaining organized client files, case notes, and database systems for caseload as determined with the Chief Executive Officer; Supporting PR, development, communications, and storytelling projects as needed; Preparing written reports on matters of national and statewide importance to reform efforts; Supporting the development team by contributing to grant applications and reports, newsletters, website updates, and action alerts and by cultivating individual donors; Conducting administrative tasks as needed.