Application Guide
How to Apply for Senior Litigator
at Just Futures Law, Inc.
🏢 About Just Futures Law, Inc.
Just Futures Law is a unique movement law organization that strategically combines litigation with community organizing to defend immigrant rights and criminal justice activists. Unlike traditional law firms, they focus on preventing surveillance, criminalization, and deportation through impact litigation that builds collective power. This makes it an ideal workplace for attorneys who want their legal practice to directly support social movements and systemic change.
About This Role
As Senior Litigator, you'll lead individual cases while shaping broader litigation strategy on immigrant rights, civil liberties, First Amendment protections, and privacy rights. This role involves conducting hearings and appeals in federal/state courts, developing factual records, and handling all phases of complex impact litigation. You'll directly contribute to preventing the deportation and criminalization of immigrants and people of color through strategic legal intervention.
💡 A Day in the Life
A typical day might involve reviewing discovery materials for an immigration rights case, drafting motions for a federal court challenge to surveillance practices, and strategizing with community organizers about litigation priorities. You could spend the morning conducting legal research on First Amendment protections for immigrant activists and the afternoon preparing for an appellate argument while coordinating with co-counsel on broader litigation strategy.
🚀 Application Tools
🎯 Who Just Futures Law, Inc. Is Looking For
- An attorney with 5-8+ years of litigation experience who has independently handled complex civil cases from discovery through appeal
- Someone with deep expertise in immigration law who understands how to strategically use litigation to support movement building
- A litigator with exceptional legal research and writing skills specifically for impact litigation briefs and motions
- An advocate who can balance individual case work with broader strategic thinking about how litigation advances immigrant rights
📝 Tips for Applying to Just Futures Law, Inc.
Highlight specific immigration law cases you've litigated, especially those involving civil liberties, First Amendment, or privacy rights
Demonstrate understanding of movement lawyering by describing how you've collaborated with community organizations in past litigation
Provide concrete examples of complex civil litigation you've handled independently, including discovery, motions practice, and appeals
Tailor your writing samples to show experience with impact litigation briefs rather than routine motions
Explain how your litigation experience aligns with preventing surveillance, criminalization, and deportation of immigrants
✉️ What to Emphasize in Your Cover Letter
['Your specific experience with immigration law and complex civil litigation, including case examples', 'How your litigation philosophy aligns with movement lawyering and supporting community organizations', 'Your ability to contribute to both individual cases and broader litigation strategy development', "Why Just Futures Law's mission to prevent deportation and criminalization resonates with your professional goals"]
Generate Cover Letter →🔍 Research Before Applying
To stand out, make sure you've researched:
- → Review Just Futures Law's recent litigation docket and publications to understand their strategic priorities
- → Research their organizational partners in immigrant rights and criminal justice movements
- → Study their approach to movement lawyering and how they integrate litigation with community organizing
- → Familiarize yourself with current legal threats to immigrant communities they're likely addressing
💬 Prepare for These Interview Topics
Based on this role, you may be asked about:
⚠️ Common Mistakes to Avoid
- Focusing only on traditional litigation experience without connecting it to movement building or social justice
- Presenting as primarily interested in courtroom victories rather than systemic change through impact litigation
- Failing to demonstrate specific immigration law expertise or complex civil litigation experience
📅 Application Timeline
This position is open until filled. However, we recommend applying as soon as possible as roles at mission-driven organizations tend to fill quickly.
Typical hiring timeline:
Application Review
1-2 weeks
Initial Screening
Phone call or written assessment
Interviews
1-2 rounds, usually virtual
Offer
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