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Navajo Board of Election Supervisors Seeks Attorney

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here is the notice: PDF

Here is the description:

Provide legal guidance and advice to Navajo Board of Election Supervisors and Navajo Election Administration, Navajo Nation Council, standing Committees involving various areas of law, such as Title 11 Election Code and other codes as the need requires. Analyzes legal issues and advised accordingly, drafts legal pleadings, briefs, memoranda, resolutions and correspondence in representing the Nation, pursues negotiations to settle disputes. Review past court, Office of Hearing & Appeals, Ethics and Rule Office rulings. Interviews and prepares witnesses for testimonial court hearings; prepares court cases by drafting complaints, order to show cause, preliminary motions, indictments, briefs and supporting affidavits; all written work is thoroughly reviewed by a supervising attorney; makes court related appearances on behalf of the Nation.

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Sarah M Donnelly

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Morongo Band of Mission Indians

Tribal Attorney, Full Time, Salary D.O.E.

BASIC DUTIES: Under the direction of the In House General Counsel, the Tribal Attorney shall represent the interests of the Morongo Tribal Government, Morongo Tribal Administration, various Morongo Tribal programs, including but not limited to direct representation in tribal and state court of the Morongo Child and Family Services Department and other Morongo Tribal government / programmatic interests as directed by the In House General Counsel.

EXPERIENCE & EDUCATION: Admitted to practice law and in good standing with the California Bar Association. One (1) year of legal experience working for an Indian Tribe, or a firm representing Tribal interests, or three (3) years of legal experience involving trial work in family law, elder law, child welfare or the Indian Child Welfare Act at the state, tribal or federal level, or other legal experience involving Indian law or related areas. Must have proven excellent past work record evidenced by favorable references from past employers. If no past employer, then letter of reference from either one California State Court Judge or two attorneys admitted to practice in the state in which they practice.  A Juris Doctor Degree from a recognized law school and membership in the California Bar Association. Must have a good academic law school recorded evidenced by law school transcripts.

APPLY: Submit your resume and letter of interest by email:  resumes@morongo-nsn.gov or fax 951-922-0321. Visit our website at www.morongo-nsn.gov for employment application.  Interviews are by appointment only. Call 951-755-5180 for more information.

Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians

Tribal Court Clerk, Dowagiac, MI

Responsibilities: Ensure clerical duties and responsibilities of the Tribal Court are met.  Assist Court Administrator in the development of judicial and Tribal Court infrastructure.  Fulfill a full range of clerical responsibilities including but limited to accept and file pleadings, prepare case files, data entry, developing procedures and processes.

Qualifications: Bachelor’s Degree in related field required. Relevant experience in lieu of degree may be considered. Completion of a Paralegal Certificate Program Degree preferred. Three years of prior clerical work experience required. Two years of prior clerking experience in a court strongly preferred.

Salary/Benefits: Salary is based on experience and education. Full benefits including medical, dental, optical and retirement plan.

Closing Date: November 11, 2016

Applications:  applications and resumes accepted through our online career center at http://www.pokagonband-nsn.gov/

Yurok Tribe

Deputy General Counsel, Full Time Regular $72,999/$86,806, FF Date for these positions are 11/18/16. For more info visit www.yuroktribe.org or call (707) 482-1350 ext 1376.

National Indian Gaming Commission

Assistant Director of Compliance, Washington D.C. Closes 11/16/16.

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Sarah M Donnelly

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Galanda Broadman PLLC

Associate Attorney, Seattle, WA.

Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe

Senior Associate General Counsel, Mt. Pleasant, MI.

Associate General Counsel, Mt. Pleasant, MI.

Tohono O’odham Nation

Assistant Attorney General, IV Health, Sells, AZ. At least eight years of relevant experience, including experience in health law.  The Office of Attorney General represents the interests of the Tohono O’odham Nation in tribal, state, and federal venues. The Nation offers generous benefits including paid holidays, sick and annual leave, low cost medical, dental, and vision insurance.  Applicants must pass a background check.  Send resume, legal writing sample, and three references to Acting Attorney General Laura Berglan via email at laura.berglan@tonation-nsn.gov.

University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law

Program Specialist, Indigenous Peoples Law & Policy, Tuscon, AZ. Review begins Tuesday, November 8, 2016.

Opening for Associate Attorney at Mentor Law Group PLLC

Sarah M Donnelly

UPDATE (11/28/16): Job has been filled

Job Title: Associate Attorney
Location: Seattle, WA
Salary DOE
Open until filled

Mentor Law Group, PLLC, seeks to add an experienced associate to its practice in Seattle. We are a small but growing law firm with expertise in natural resources and federal Indian law, practicing primarily in water resources law.

We represent a wide variety of clients, including Indian tribes, corporations, farmers, and local governments. We currently have exciting projects in three western states (Arizona, Oregon and Washington), and we work in several others. Our offices are in Pioneer Square and we also work remotely.

Applicant must be a member of the bar of a western state and have experience in one or more of the following practice areas: Environmental law, Natural Resource law, Indian law or litigation. We are looking for candidates with outstanding ability and potential for continued growth. Law review experience is strongly preferred. Impeccable writing and research skills are necessary. We are looking for candidates who are strategic in crafting solutions to ambiguous situations, self-motivated, and goal-oriented. This is a great opportunity to work on significant cases.

Qualified applicants should submit a cover letter tailored to this announcement, as well as a résumé, writing sample, transcript, and list of at least three references, to Sarah Neighbors, our Firm Administrator, at neighbors@mentorlaw.com.

Director of Student Services and Skills Posting for Lakehead University

Sarah M Donnelly

One contract position (three-year term), Thunder Bay Campus

Highly organized and possessing excellent interpersonal skills, you will play a key role in the administration of our legal program. Working closely with the Dean, you will be responsible for providing the coordination of services for student recruitment and retention, delivering the Integrated Practice Curriculum (IPC), assisting course instructors with developing skills-exercise content for their courses, coordinating the third-year Practice Placement program with legal supervisors, and offering career support for upper level students.

You have a JD or LL.B. degree and three years of legal practice experience. Ideally, you possess membership in the Law Society of Upper Canada, have knowledge of Indigenous communities, and have previous experience with post-secondary administration, program development, and/or post-secondary instructional delivery. Collaborative and able to work with individuals of various backgrounds, you have outreach experience with law firms, legal departments in government organizations, and other community legal entities. Some travel is required.

This position is an initial three-year full-time contract with potential for renewal and is subject to budgetary approval. Salary is commensurate with experience. If you are interested in applying, please submit your curriculum vitae and cover letter outlining your experience to:

Lakehead University – Office of Human Resources
University Centre
Room UC-0003
fax: 807-346-7701
e-mail: careers@lakeheadu.ca

The deadline for applications is December 9, 2016. If you have questions about this position, please feel free to contact, Dean EagleWoman at lawfaculty@lakeheadu.ca.

Lakehead University is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and welcomes applications from all qualified individuals including women, members of visible minorities, Aboriginal persons, and persons with disabilities. If you require accommodations for interviews or other meetings, please contact Human Resources at (807) 343-8334. We appreciate your interest; however, only those selected for an interview will be notified.

NIWRC Hiring Native Affairs Senior Advisor for StrongHearts Helpline

Sarah M Donnelly

Download(PDF): NIWRC-StrongHearts Senior Advisor

The National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center, Inc. (NIWRC) is a Native nonprofit organization that was created specifically to serve as the National Indian Resource Center (NIRC) Addressing Domestic Violence and Safety for Indian Women. Under this grant project and in compliance with statutory requirements, the NIWRC will seek to enhance the capacity of American Indian and Alaska Native (Native) tribes, Native Hawaiians, and Tribal and Native Hawaiian organizations to respond to domestic violence.

AmeriCorps Attorney Opening in Utah

Sarah M Donnelly

Download(PDF): DNA_AmeriCorps Member Posting

DNA-People’s Legal Services in Shiprock, NM, has an opening for an AmeriCorps Member: Medical-Legal Partnership Attorney in Montezuma Creek/Monument Valley, Utah. This attorney would partner with Utah Navajo Health System to provide legal services to patients.

Aboriginal & Indigenous Law Faculty Posting for Lakehead University

Sarah M Donnelly

Tenure Track Position – Aboriginal and Indigenous Law Curriculum

Lakehead University’s Bora Laskin Faculty of Law invites applications for a tenure track position to teach within the Aboriginal and Indigenous Law curriculum. Rank of appointment is commensurate with qualifications, teaching, and research. The appointment will commence on July 1, 2017. Review of applications will begin on November 15, 2016 and continue until the position is filled. Aboriginal and Indigenous candidates are encouraged to apply.

The ideal candidate will have teaching and research expertise in Indigenous legal traditions. Given the Faculty’s presence in Anishinaabe and Métis territory, preference will be given to qualified candidates with research and teaching expertise in either Anishinaabe law or Métis law or both. The Faculty invites candidates to discuss their experience engaging with the language, worldview, traditions, and protocols of an Indigenous people, and the ways in which their teaching and research address the relationship between Indigenous laws and Indigenous languages, worldviews, traditions, and protocols, where such is the case. The Faculty encourages applications from candidates who employ Indigenous pedagogy in their teaching, including land-based pedagogy.

The Bora Laskin Faculty of Law has a tripartite mandate, which includes a focus on Aboriginal and Indigenous law, natural resources and environmental law, and rural and small firm practice. The Faculty’s Integrated Practice Curriculum incorporates the requirement of articling into the Faculty’s three-year program. The Law Society of Upper Canada has approved the Integrated Practice Curriculum; as a result, successful graduates may be called to the bar in Ontario without completing a separate period of articles. Our faculty have experience practicing law, and many of our courses include skills-based exercises. The Faculty encourages applications from those who have experience in the practice of Indigenous law, and who can incorporate Indigenous skills exercise into their courses.

Applicants must have a law degree, and preference will be given to those who also have a graduate degree in law. Complete applications will consist of the following:

  • a cover letter that includes a teaching and research statement;
  • a curriculum vitae,
  • Law transcripts;
  • up to two samples of published research; and,
  • the names and email addresses of three referees.

Complete applications should be sent to:
Dean Angelique EagleWoman
Bora Laskin Faculty of Law
Lakehead University, 955 Oliver Road, Thunder Bay, ON  P7B 5E1
e-mail: lawfaculty@lakeheadu.ca

If you have questions about this position, please feel free to contact Dean EagleWoman, at lawfaculty@lakeheadu.ca. Review of the applications will begin November 15, 2016 and continue until the positions are filled.

A completed Confirmation of Eligibility to Work in Canada form should be submitted with the application.

Lakehead University is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and welcomes applications from all qualified individuals including women, members of visible minorities, Aboriginal persons, and persons with disabilities. We appreciate your interest; however, only those selected for an interview will be notified. Lakehead University is committed to supporting an accessible environment. Please ask us how we may help you by contacting the Office of Human Resources, Lakehead University, 955 Oliver Road, Room UC0003, Thunder Bay, ON  P7B 5E1 (807) 343-8334 or e-mail human.resources@lakeheadu.ca.

Executive Director Vacancy with Anishinaabe Legal Services on Leech Lake Reservation

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Alaska Legal Services Corporation

Shelter-Based Staff Attorney, Juneau, AK

Alaska Legal Services Corporation is hiring a full-time attorney in Juneau, funded by a three-year grant from the U.S. Department of Justice. The grant’s purpose is to enhance options available to victims of domestic violence to resolve family disputes quickly and peacefully, and to provide representation in a variety of civil matters.  The project will prioritize services to two traditionally underserved and vulnerable groups of domestic violence victims: Alaska Native/American Indian victims and victims experiencing disabilities.

The attorney will appear in state and tribal court civil proceedings involving family law, housing, consumer protection, public benefits, and health care.  The attorney will also partner with AWARE (Aiding Women in Abuse & Rape Emergencies) on a project to develop and provide safe, out-of-court alternative dispute resolution services for domestic violence victims in family law cases, when appropriate. The attorney will be based at AWARE, and will work closely with ALSC’s supervising attorney and staff attorney, an AWARE legal advocate, and a part-time family counselor.

Ability to work with individuals from different cultural backgrounds is essential, as is working with individuals experiencing trauma, and physical and mental disabilities. Candidates should possess knowledge, appreciation, experience, and commitment to working with and for Alaska Native peoples and statewide Native organizations.  ALSC is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a culturally diverse workplace and strongly encourage women, persons of color, LGBTQ individuals, veterans, persons with disabilities, and persons from other underrepresented groups to apply.

Computer proficiency required. Bilingual applicants encouraged. Admission to Alaska Bar or Alaska Bar Rule 43 waiver required.  Information on Bar Rule 43 can be found at http://www.alaskabar.org/ (Alaska Bar Association website).

Salary: $44,856 to $63,456 per year DOE.  Generous personal leave and benefits package provided, including partial reimbursement of relocation expenses.

Position will be open until filled.  To apply, submit cover letter, resume, brief writing sample, and list of three professional references to:

Holly Handler, Juneau Supervising Attorney
hhandler@alsc-law.org

Native American Program, Legal Aid of Nebraska

AmeriCorps Member: Medical-Legal Partnership Attorney, Omaha, NE

The AmeriCorps Member will provide direct legal assistance to low-income patients at the Fred LeRoy Health and Wellness Center in Omaha, NE, the Nebraska Urban Indian Health Coalition in Omaha and Lincoln, Nebraska, the Ponca Hills Health and Wellness Center in Norfolk, NE, and other locations in and near Northeast and Eastern Nebraska. Areas of legal advocacy include public benefits, housing, special education, domestic violence, elder law, family law, and consumer law. The AmeriCorps Member will be an attorney authorized to practice in state and/or tribal court, and before administrative agencies. The AmeriCorps Member will be responsible for providing periodic trainings and presentations to providers at medical facilities, as well as for regularly consulting with medical providers.

Native American Program, Legal Aid Services of Oregon

Staff Attorney, Portland, OR

Legal Aid Services of Oregon (LASO) seeks a Staff Attorney for its Native American Program (NAPOLS), which is located in Portland.

Background: LASO is a non-profit organization that represents low-income clients in civil cases. LASO’s eight regional offices serve the general low-income population throughout the state and two specialized statewide programs provide services to farmworkers and representation on Native American issues. LASO is an effective, high-quality legal services program committed to advocacy strategies that will have a demonstrable effect on community problems.

NAPOLS assists income-eligible Indian tribes, Native organizations, and individual tribal members, including with cases related to tribal sovereignty and self-governance, estate planning and trust resources, access to benefits, expungement of criminal records, and tribal court cases. NAPOLS also offers community education on a wide range of legal issues.

Responsibilities: The staff attorney will be responsible for maintaining a varied caseload providing legal services to Indian tribes, Native organizations, and individual tribal members.

Qualifications: Position requires current Oregon State Bar membership, proven interest in and commitment to working in Indian Country, and knowledge of federal, tribal, and state laws impacting tribes and tribal members. Regular travel throughout Oregon, including some overnight travel, is required.

Salary/Benefits: Salary is based on experience, within a statewide salary scale. Full Benefits including health and dental insurance and retirement plan.

Closing Date: October 28, 2016

Applications: Send resume, letter of interest, brief writing sample (5 pages or less), and list of 3 professional references to:

Jennifer Amiott, Director
Native American Program, Legal Aid Services of Oregon
4531 SE Belmont St., Suite 201, Portland, OR 97215
Email: napolsjobs@lasoregon.org / Fax: (503) 206-7073
Please, no phone calls.

Legal Aid Service of Oregon is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Tribal members and minority applicants encouraged to apply.

The Yurok Tribe

Associate General Counsel

Full Time, Regular $60,904-$94,898. Closes 10/26/16. Apply here.

Paralegal

Full Time, Regular $24.12/$26.56/$29.19. Closes 10/26/16. Apply here.

Department of the Interior

Administrative Judge, Interior Board of Indian Appeals, Arlington, VA. Closes 11/14/2016.