Oakland, California, United States · Hybrid
$81k–$133k/yr
Bay Area Legal Aid (BayLegal) is a non-profit law firm. Our staff provide free civil legal services to individuals and families living in poverty throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. Our community-based service model i…
Skills: Legal Advocacy, Administrative Hearings, Healthcare Law, Case Management, Public Interest Law
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Represent low-income clients in administrative hearings and grievance proceedings to ensure access to healthcare services and coverage. Provide immediate legal assistance via a health legal advice hotline and engage in impact advocacy to remove systemic barriers to care.
Must be a member of the California Bar in good standing or eligible for the Registered Legal Services Attorney Program. Requires a strong commitment to social justice and a willingness to learn complex healthcare programs like Medi-Cal and Medicare.
Bay Area Legal Aid (BayLegal) is a non-profit law firm. Our staff provide free civil legal services to individuals and families living in poverty throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. Our community-based service model includes a wide range of access points, including legal hotlines, six physical offices, and community-based advocacy clinics and intake points. We practice in multiple inter-related legal substantive areas to prevent and stop homelessness, increase economic stability, protect low-income consumers, expand access to healthcare, and enhance safety for survivors of interpersonal violence. Our clients include the working poor, families with children, foster youth, seniors, immigrants, veterans, individuals impacted by the criminal and juvenile legal systems, and persons with disabilities. The core of our community-based practice is working alongside our individual clients to protect their legal rights, resolve immediate crises and remove legal barriers to long-term stability and escaping poverty. BayLegal is also uniquely positioned to identify patterns of illegal practices and engage in opportunities to protect the legal rights of low-income communities and increase efficiency and effectiveness of public services through broader advocacy and impact litigation.
Health Consumer Center (HCC): The Health Consumer Center (HCC) team comprises attorneys focused on eliminating barriers to healthcare access across nine counties in the Bay Area: Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo (in collaboration with the Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County), Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma. The HCC is part of a network of ten community-based legal service nonprofit organizations throughout California, all dedicated to protecting consumers' healthcare rights and ensuring a stable healthcare delivery system for all individuals through advocacy and direct representation.
The HCC engages in a wide range of advocacy efforts designed to assist low-income individuals and families to enhance healthcare accessibility. Its model is an innovative telephone hotline that provides immediate legal assistance to address callers’ legal inquiries related to healthcare services and coverage.
Additionally, HCC attorneys actively participate in various stakeholder workgroups alongside state agencies and health advocacy organizations. The team also engages in advocacy by pursuing affirmative lawsuits to challenge unlawful administrative procedures and collaborating with government stakeholders to address coverage and enrollment issues affecting Californians.
Position: BayLegal is seeking an attorney who demonstrates a strong commitment to public interest and social justice, with a particular focus on healthcare access. This role is based in our Oakland office and will serve clients across the Bay Area. Currently, staff within the Health Care Access team may primarily work remotely. Additional information regarding hybrid work arrangements is provided below.
Hybrid Work Option: BayLegal employees whose primary job duties are on a BayLegal hotline, including Health Consumer Center (HCC), are approved to work remotely on a full-time basis subject to the terms of the collective bargaining agreement with Bay Area Legal Aid Workers, “BALAW”, with expectation of being in-person at a BayLegal office or advocacy site as needed to accommodate client needs, attend periodic team meetings and trainings. Employees must reside and perform all work in California and at a distance allowing them to commute to their physical BayLegal base location, and to other service delivery locations as needed, during the standard work week.
Compensation and Benefits: We offer a family friendly environment, and compensation based on competitive public interest salaries along with a generous benefits package.
BayLegal's benefits package includes 100% employer covered medical, dental, and life insurance for employees and up to 60% for dependents; BayLegal student debt reimbursement program; long term disability insurance; employee assistance program; wage differentials for multi-lingual employees whose non-English language skills are regularly used in the provision of tasks and pass a request test of fluency and/or proficiency; dependent childcare employer contribution program; employer paid CA Bar license and/or social work license fees; and 401k retirement plan with BayLegal contribution following first year. BayLegal has a generous paid leave policy which includes 15 holidays each year; vacation (starting at 13 days and increasing with additional years of employment); 3 floating holidays each year (days chosen by employee); sick leave; and parental leave.
This is a union position (Bay Area Legal Aid Workers, “BALAW”), and the 2026 salary range is $80,719-$132,815 and placement depends on years of experience. The salary scale can be found here: BayLegal union positions salary scale for 2022-2026.
Work Environment and Physical Activity:
Work Environment: This position is primarily sedentary. When in office, the applicant can expect to be working at a desk in a temperature-controlled office, in a modular space or individual office. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
Physical Activity: BayLegal provides this list for transparency of the physical activity that may be required for this position. BayLegal is committed to being a workplace that supports applicants and employees with disabilities. Applicants and employees may request reasonable accommodation and BayLegal will engage in an interactive process.
While performing duties of the job, employees may occasionally be required to sit for prolonged periods; be ambulatory; travel; use hands to type; feel objects, operate tools, and/or controls; reach with hands and arms; talk and hear. Employees may regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
Applications: BayLegal is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Recruitment, placement and promotions are conducted without regard to an individual's race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability status, veteran status or sexual orientation, or any other classification protected by Federal, State, and local laws & ordinances. We will consider qualified candidates with a criminal history in a manner consistent with the requirements of all Federal, state and local laws. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply. Reasonable accommodations are available upon request.
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the position is filled.
Working Together for Justice
Bay Area Legal Aid (BayLegal) ensures fairness in the civil justice system for the most vulnerable members of our community. From Silicon Valley to Napa Valley, we help clients protect their livelihoods, their health, and their families. Our clients include the working poor, families with children, foster youth, seniors, immigrants, veterans, and persons with disabilities. Through our regional county offices, our mobile advocacy clinics, and our nationally-recognized Legal Advice Line, BayLegal prevents domestic violence and sexual assault, increases economic stability, protects consumers, expands access to healthcare, and prevents homelessness. For our clients, BayLegal makes the difference between staying in poverty and thriving toward a brighter future. We provide low-income clients with free civil legal assistance, including legal advice and counsel, effective referrals, and legal representation. We are the largest civil legal aid provider serving seven Bay Area counties: Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, and Santa Clara. BayLegal thrives on our diversity and we are 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. Join us: https://baylegal.org/get-involved/employment-opportunities/
Offices: 1735 Telegraph Avenue, Oakland, CA 94612, US
Working Together for Justice
Bay Area Legal Aid (BayLegal) ensures fairness in the civil justice system for the most vulnerable members of our community. From Silicon Valley to Napa Valley, we help clients protect their livelihoods, their health, and their families. Our clients include the working poor, families with children, foster youth, seniors, immigrants, veterans, and persons with disabilities. Through our regional county offices, our mobile advocacy clinics, and our nationally-recognized Legal Advice Line, BayLegal prevents domestic violence and sexual assault, increases economic stability, protects consumers, expands access to healthcare, and prevents homelessness. For our clients, BayLegal makes the difference between staying in poverty and thriving toward a brighter future. We provide low-income clients with free civil legal assistance, including legal advice and counsel, effective referrals, and legal representation. We are the largest civil legal aid provider serving seven Bay Area counties: Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, and Santa Clara. BayLegal thrives on our diversity and we are 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. Join us: https://baylegal.org/get-involved/employment-opportunities/
Offices: 1735 Telegraph Avenue, Oakland, CA 94612, US
