Immigration Attorney

Ybarra Maldonado Law Group • Full-time • Phoenix, Arizona, United States • $75k - $120k / year • 3m ago

Ybarra Maldonado Law Group is seeking an Allstar Associate Immigration Attorney to join our growing DREAM team. Are you passionate about immigration law and seeking justice for undocumented families? Are you organized and self motivated? Do you enjoy drafting creative legal arguments and taking on challenging cases? Do you love to learn and thrive in an environment of top performers? We are a growing client centered law firm looking to build the best law firm for our gente in Arizona. We have a long standing reputation of dedication and commitment to serving the migrant community with the utmost respect, dignity, and a high level of professionalism. We strive to make everyone that walks through our doors feel welcomed and respected. We understand that many of our clients are facing very difficult and challenging situations, and therefore strive to ensure that while in our office, they feel at home and more at ease knowing that our team will do everything they can to win their case and facilitate the legal process for them.

***Experience with the preparation and filing of immigration applications and petitions with government agencies. Draft, review, and file legal documents, legal research, travel to visit detained clients, court hearings. Experience with Removal/deportation Defense, Asylum, U Visas and Family based petitions, DACA, Permanent Residencies, Naturalization and Consular Processing, Cancellation of Removal, FOIA's, Bond Packets, Asylum Applications, Adjustment of Status Forms, Motions.

Requirements: The ideal candidate must be able to manage complex tasks efficiently; prioritize work load in extremely time-sensitive field of law; meet strict deadlines; be extremely detail oriented and have the ability to edit carefully; provide outstanding service to the families we serve; be flexible and adaptable to a fast-paced changing environment; organized; self-motivated with strong initiative; have a positive attitude; have a professional demeanor in appearance and manner. An ideal candidate will be energetic, quick learner, self-starter, knowledge of immigration law (family and deportation defense). Ability to take direction from extremely experienced immigration paralegals. Please review the job requirements, qualifications, and job duties below. If interested in applying, please submit the following documents; 1) a letter of interest 2) a resume - please address these documents to angeles@abogadoray.com. BILINGUAL highly preferred but will consider all candidates with experience working with marginalized spanish speaking and/or indigenous communities. Organized with attention to detail -Sensitivity and experience working with diverse populations -Must be dedicated to the YMLG mission of advocating for the rights of immigrant and Latino communities -Great communication and problem solving skills -Reliable -Willingness to learn -Self-starter / Not afraid to take Initiative/ willingness to work evenings and Saturdays when necessary with time sensitive matters.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $75,000.00 - $120,000.00 per year

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