Family Law Senior Attorney [INTERNAL ONLY] bei Colorado Legal Services

Organization Overview: 

Colorado Legal Services (CLS) is Colorado’s statewide nonprofit legal aid program, with twelve offices providing civil legal assistance to low-income Coloradans throughout the state. CLS provides free legal assistance in a broad variety of legal areas, including family law, public benefits, eviction defense, consumer protection, services to survivors of serious crime and human trafficking, and many others.     

CLS has strengthened lives, assisted families, and supported communities–one person at a time for over 100 years. We are committed to providing high-quality, free legal advice and representation to eligible individuals throughout Colorado. We have a long history of successful impact and advocacy. CLS strives to bring about substantive, transformational change in the lives of those we serve. 

We value representation.
At CLS, we value and respect our staff's wide variety of backgrounds and experiences. We ensure representation of our client communities in our staff, Board of Directors and leadership teams. We also envision a fair, just, trusted, and harm-reductionist legal system that emphasizes access to and implementation of true justice for every Coloradan

Position Summary: 

CLS seeks an experienced litigator, strategic thinker, and subject matter expert with extensive experience in representing low-income litigants in family law cases. The Family Law Senior Attorney is an INTERNAL ONLY position. This individual may work in any CLS office and will continue to report to their current supervisor.  

Senior Attorneys play a unique role within Colorado Legal Services. Senior Attorneys are experienced casehandlers who continue to do some casework within their original team, but also play key roles in advancing strategic, impact, and appellate advocacy. Each Senior Attorney will specialize in one or more areas of CLS’s work. This position will specialize in family law, but will contribute to other areas of strategic, impact, and appellate advocacy as needed. 

Senior Attorneys will be assigned projects by the Deputy Director for Advocacy and the three regional Advocacy Directors to advance the interests of CLS clients outside the context of handling cases. This may include conducting legal research, writing, analyzing trends and data in court cases or within CLS’s case management system, leading or participating in internal and external coalition meetings and Task Forces, and developing strategies to change systems within the Judicial Branch or by other actors that adversely impact CLS clients. Senior Attorneys may also take leading or supporting roles in affirmative litigation intended to impact both a CLS client and other similarly-situated individuals. Senior attorneys may provide internal or external legal trainings. Finally, Senior Attorneys are assigned leading or supporting roles on appellate cases (primarily those within their area of expertise), which may include drafting and editing briefs and other pleadings and helping moot other attorneys for oral argument. All advocacy will be conducted consistent with LSC regulations, including any administrative and legislative advocacy. 

Senior Attorneys also serve as mentors and resources for other CLS attorneys. Senior Attorneys are available to talk through complicated cases, train less experienced attorneys, and respond promptly to all questions posted in Task Force Teams channels. Senior attorneys may help staff with portions of a case, such as reviewing a complex motion. They may also second chair a case with an attorney as a way to teach staff more about an area of law. Senior attorneys are not supervisors and should direct personnel matters to the appropriate supervisor.  

To Apply:

Full detailed job description was sent to all staff via email. Please apply through Bamboo and submit a resume and writing sample by Monday, November 24, 2025.  Writing samples could include: a recent appellate brief you partly or solely authored or a public comment; a demand letter, or similar written advocacy aimed at asking a court or administrative agency to change a practice; or a trial court pleading or brief where you made a detailed legal argument.

Compensation and Benefits:
 

We offer a generous plan that includes 100% employer paid premiums for employee health, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability insurance, as well as partial employer paid premiums for spouses/dependents, based on a sliding scale. We also offer Dependent Care and Medical Flexible spending accounts, and an Employee Assistance Program (EAP). CLS contributes $200/month to each employee's 403(b) retirement account and matches 100% of employee contributions up to 3% of employee salary; vesting occurs gradually will full vesting after 3 years of employment. Additionally, CLS offers generous paid time-off and 13 paid holidays per year.  

 CLS values its employees’ commitment to working hard for the population it serves and recognizes the importance of work/life balance. We promote and foster a culture of belonging and a psychologically safe work environment, striving to be a “Best Place to Work” in Colorado.