LMU LOYOLA LAW SCHOOL invites applications for a full-time clinical professor and Legal Director of the Loyola Project for the Innocent (“LPI”). As part of the Loyola’s Social Justice Law Clinic (LSJLC), LPI provides direct services to wrongfully convicted individuals. LPI is also involved in policy reform and advocating for legislative changes. LPI’s legal services range from investigation, filing, and litigation of petitions for writ of habeas corpus, to clemency and parole petitions.

LPI’s Legal Director will oversee all aspects of LPI’s litigation, including supervising and participating, as needed, in all litigation needs of the clinic, and overseeing LPI’s legal team. Currently, LPI is staffed with a Senior Director who handles a range of responsibilities, including teaching, supervising cases, and administrative matters, and an Assistant Director who serves as a staff attorney and Director of Investigations. LPI also has a staff attorney and post-graduate fellow who assist in all aspects of LPI’s work, as well as adjunct professors and volunteer attorneys who work on LPI’s cases and supervise students. The Legal Director will, in collaboration with the LPI team, establish priorities for LPI litigation and litigation strategy, represent LPI in state and federal courts, coordinate LPI’s work with the Innocence Network, and represent LPI in its interaction with the District Attorney’s Office.

In addition, the Legal Director will, in collaboration with the Senior Director, oversee the teaching and supervision of law students in LPI’s clinical courses. This includes all responsibilities of a faculty member in a live-client clinic setting, including developing curriculum, regular student supervision meetings, supervised appearances in court as required by the needs of the cases and clients, and supervision of LPI staff.

The Legal Director will also work with University Advancement, the LSJLC Executive Director, LPI’s Advisory Board, staff, and other stakeholders to create and oversee the implementation of fundraising strategies and grant fundraising. 

The selected candidate will join our diverse community of faculty, staff, and students in LSJLC and will be responsible for working with LPI staff to integrate LPI’s activities into LSJLC and the broader law school community and mission. The Law School houses over twenty live-client clinics engaged in social justice legal advocacy on behalf of many different underrepresented communities in Los Angeles, so clinicians collaborate with each other to provide integrated representation that meets clients’ needs in many different legal forums. For more information, please visit www.lls.edu.   

Minimum qualifications include:

·       J.D. degree

·       Admission to the California Bar

·       At least 7 years litigation experience, including both motion practice and trial experience

·       At least 5 years practice experience in criminal law, with some experience in post-conviction practice

·       Experience supervising or teaching individuals in a clinical setting, public defender office, or public interest law office

·       Ability and willingness to work on campus to provide in-person teaching, supervision, and mentoring of clinic students

·       Strong research, writing, and oral advocacy skills to support LPI’s litigation needs

·       Aptitude for directing investigations, legal filings, and evidentiary hearings

·       Strong personal commitment to assisting those in need

·       Commitment to establishing the highest professional standards for criminal justice lawyers

The reasonable expected base salary for this position is $125,000. The salary of the candidate selected for this position will be determined based on a range of factors, including but not limited to, the candidate’s education, training, and experience. Salary is one component of LMU’s total compensation and comprehensive benefits package.

Only those applicants selected for interviews will be contacted.  Applications will be considered on a rolling basis until the position is filled, with priority given to applications submitted by April 7, 2023.

COVID VACCINATION REQUIREMENT:

To ensure the safety and well-being of our community Loyola Marymount University requires that all students, faculty and staff are vaccinated or have been approved for a qualifying medical or religious exemption.

As part of Loyola Marymount University, a Jesuit, Carnegie-classified R2 institution, Loyola Law School seeks outstanding applicants who share its commitment to inclusive excellence and the promotion of justice.  We are equal opportunity employer committed to providing an environment free from discrimination and harassment as defined by federal, state and local law.  We welcome and invite all persons of diverse and intersectional identities, life experiences, and beliefs to apply. Please read more about our commitments and our efforts at https://resources.lmu.edu/officeofinterculturalaffairs/.

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