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Lawyers in the Community

Uptown People's Law Center, with one of the largest dockets of prisoner rights cases in Illinois is hiring. We are looking for a lawyer with a minimum of three years' experience litigating in federal court on behalf of prisoners or other similar experience. Their caseload will focus on individual damages cases but will also include work on our class action cases.

A full job description is here:

 https://www.uplcchicago.org/get-involved/careers/staff-attorney-prison.html

UPLC has represented prisoners in a wide variety of cases for more than 40 years. This is a great opportunity for anyone who wants to focus their practice on representing prisoners.