Basic needs for security, privacy, access to health services, immigration issues and family arrangements often arise after sexual assault. If you have been attacked, LASSA lawyers can guide you through the legal avenues to meet these needs. • Conducts research and analysis, conducts factual investigations, communicates with third parties, makes agency recommendations, and drafts and archives legal documents. When you call our national helpline, you don`t just get TLSC. We connect you to a network of legal aid providers. If you are a victim of domestic violence, sexual abuse or assault, elder abuse or any other form of violent crime, TLSC provides legal advice, safety planning, self-advocacy support, and legal advocacy. We also support victims of criminal harassment and identity theft. We can assist you with the following legal issues: • Conduct intake interviews, confirm eligibility for services, verify conflicts of interest and take appropriate steps to resolve the client`s legal issue. ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: • Provide legal advice, support, referrals and representation, as appropriate, to eligible clients in a compassionate, culturally sensitive, trauma-informed and victim-centred manner. This includes representing clients in court hearings and administrative proceedings. • Conduct intake interviews, confirm eligibility for services, verify conflicts of interest and take appropriate steps to resolve the client`s legal issue.
• Conducts research and analysis, communicates with third parties and designs and archives legal documents. • Maintain working relationships, both internally and with network partners and other social services in the community and across the country, to advance program and organizational objectives. • Leads or helps advance educational efforts throughout the state and in local programs, including developing, presenting, or participating in public speaking training for law enforcement and volunteers. • Sometimes travel frequently outside of Austin to discuss customer issues, arrange training, or meet with partner agencies. • Assist clients with the Texas Statewide Automated Victim Notification System (SAVNS) and criminal injuries compensation claims. • Provide information to customers and, where appropriate, recommendations. OTHER FEATURES: • Ensure that all client files, projects, and computers are properly managed. • Provide all necessary/requested information for TLSC reports in a timely manner. • Performs other duties as required.
STUDIES (COMPULSORY): • J.D. diploma. • Admitted by the Texas Supreme Court. EXPERIENCE (PREFERRED): • At least two years of experience assisting victims of crime, particularly victims of domestic violence and sexual assault, in a legal environment. • Experience in presenting to a wide audience. • Maintain working relationships, both internally and with network partners and other social services in the community and across the country, to advance program and organizational objectives. KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS (REQUIRED): • Up-to-date knowledge and expertise of the law and legal system. • Organizational skills at a high level. • Exceptional written and oral communication skills. • Strong time management and attention to detail. • Knowledge (or learning ability) with LegalServer (TLSC`s case management system), Adobe and Microsoft Office products. • Understand grant requirements and related reporting requirements.
• Possibility to travel outside the city, often including overnight stays. • Ability to work with clients in a patient, trauma-informed and non-judgmental manner. • Comfort at work in a hotline and process environment. KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS (PREFERRED): • Fluency in Spanish (reading, writing, speaking and understanding spoken Spanish). PHYSICAL DEMANDS: • Sedentary work, which involves sitting most of the time. • Bending, squatting and kneeling from time to time. • Occasionally exercise up to 10 pounds of force and a negligible amount of force as needed to lift, carry, push, pull or move objects. LASSA is a national network of legal aid organizations in Texas that work together to serve survivors of sexual assault. Survivors can face simultaneous cases in federal criminal court, local criminal court, immigration court, and local civil court — all related to the crime they suffered, all at the same time.
Our Victims of Crime Unit helps crime survivors resolve the civil law issues they face as a result of crimes committed against them. TexasLawHelp.org articling student will gain a comprehensive understanding of Texas` civil justice system. They will gain experience in the public interest and improve access to civilian services for low-income Texans by improving TexasLawHelp.org content. By improving the site`s legal content and pro-se forms library, the trainee lawyer gains a better understanding of: You must be a victim of violent crime, stalking, and/or identity theft. Legal Aid for Survivors of Sexual Assault (LASSA) provides free and confidential legal advice and services over the phone. Lawyers can also connect you with additional legal services in your area and other support resources. We help with legal issues arising from sexual assault: CVU founded a provider in the Texas Crime Victim Legal Assistance Network and is a provider. Visit the network to search for survival-focused legal and non-legal resources across the state. The Texas Legal Services Center`s (TLSC) Crime Victims Program provides direct legal services to victims of violent crime, including legal advice and telephone referrals, victim representation in court, and representation on behalf of victims moving through the criminal justice system. Depending on the needs of the program, this position provides trauma-informed services to victims by providing legal advice and telephone referrals, representing clients in litigation, advocating for victims` rights in criminal and probation proceedings, or providing other appropriate legal services. TLSC also runs a legal helpline for survivors who have legal needs due to sexual assault or abuse, and serves the Legal Aid for Survivors of Sexual Assault (LASSA) network by providing a national welcome and referrals to other LASA partners. • Provide legal advice, support, recommendations and representation, as appropriate, to eligible clients in a compassionate, culturally sensitive, trauma-informed and victim-centred manner.
This includes representing clients in court hearings and administrative proceedings. The hotline is not a 24-hour hotline. If you are in immediate danger, please call 911.