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Brooklyn Defender Services (BDS) seeks an attorney to join our Civil Justice Practice as an employment attorney to provide legal representation for individuals with concurrent criminal legal, family court, and immigration matters.
BDS is a public defense office representing thousands of low-income New Yorkers each year in criminal, family, immigration, and civil legal matters. In addition to a zealous legal defense, our interdisciplinary teams of attorneys, social workers, and advocates provide a wide range of legal and advocacy services to clients with complex legal needs, their families, and communities in Brooklyn and Queens.
BDS’s Civil Justice Practice (CJP) aims to reduce civil collateral and direct consequences from legal system involvement and provides legal services in Housing and Benefits, Education, Employment, and other matters. CJP also serves as a resource to BDS’s other practice areas, advising attorneys, clients, and other staff of potential ramifications of criminal and family court involvement, as well as accepting cases from community referrals at our community office.
The candidate will work directly with BDS clients facing employment-related collateral consequences due to an arrest or prior conviction. Attorneys work across practice areas to determine employment-safe plea agreements and engage in direct employer advocacy and represent workers in hearings to lift license suspensions and revocations, affirmative discrimination complaints, and applications for post-conviction relief (i.e., sealing a prior conviction) to limit the lasting harm that comes from current and past involvement in court systems. We address workers’ rights issues, including filing complaints about wage theft and demanding back wages, asserting rights to paid leave and workplace accommodations, and assisting with unemployment insurance claims and other employment benefits. Employment lawyers also work closely with our immigration team to explore how pending employment law claims can make workers in removal proceedings eligible for immigration relief, including U and T visas. Because stable employment and financial security are so closely tied to positive outcomes in other court proceedings, our employment attorneys contribute significantly to our core work of avoiding harsh sentences, keeping families together, and avoiding immigration consequences.
Responsibilities
- Engage in direct representation of individuals on employment matters, such as wage and hour violations, workplace discrimination, and other common problems facing low-wage workers.
- Advise individuals who have been arrested to help them understand the collateral employment consequences of a pending case and possible resolutions and provide direct employer advocacy to help keep workers who have been arrested employed.
- Provide representation in license suspension and revocation hearings to workers who have been arrested to help preserve jobs in city or state-regulated industries.
- Screen immigrant workers in removal proceedings for paths to immigration relief and represent workers before the federal and New York Departments of Labor to obtain U and T visa certifications.
- Represent individuals seeking to claim unemployment and other employment benefits.
- File motions to seal eligible offenses under New York’s sealing statute.
- Conduct legal research, write legal memoranda, and train staff and outside organizations.
- Assist in identifying and developing impact litigation and policy platforms for systemic reform.
- Collaborate with attorneys and social workers in BDS criminal, family, and immigration practices to address the varied employment BDS clients.
- Additional responsibilities as assigned.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Admission to the New York bar or eligibility to become admitted.
- 1 to 5 years of experience providing direct legal services representation, with a preference for experience representing clients in employment matters.
- Interest in representing clients who face multiple interrelated issues.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, including an ability to work across practices with colleagues concurrently representing clients.
- Efficient, organized work style and an ability to prioritize quickly and manage multiple deadlines and emergencies.
- Experience with criminal defense, family defense, immigrant rights work, or direct civil legal services work is a plus.
- Candidates with proficiency in a language other than English are encouraged to apply.
POSITION INFORMATION
This is a full-time, exempt, salaried position in the collective bargaining unit. The position is based at BDS’s offices and NYC courts and administrative forums.
BDS determines salary on a pay scale based on education and experience. For this position, there is a salary range of $90,000 - $105,000 depending on the applicant’s education and experience. BDS offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance and a 403(b)-retirement plan. In order to support work/life balance and family-friendly policies, BDS has generous vacation, sick, holiday, family, and medical leave policies.
APPLICATION
Click “Apply Now” to submit a cover letter and resume on our online application portal. Please submit your application by June 15, 2026.
Brooklyn Defender Services is a proud equal opportunity employer committed to celebrating diversity and maintaining an equitable and inclusive work environment. We strongly encourage candidates of all identities, expressions, orientations, disabilities, and experiences to apply. If you require an accommodation due to a disability or another reason, please contact the Managing Director, H.R., Christina Wallace, at cwallace @ bds.org.
INTRODUCTION
Brooklyn Defender Services (BDS) seeks an attorney to join our Civil Justice Practice as an employment attorney to provide legal representation for individuals with concurrent criminal legal, family court, and immigration matters.
BDS is a public defense office representing thousands of low-income New Yorkers each year in criminal, family, immigration, and civil legal matters. In addition to a zealous legal defense, our interdisciplinary teams of attorneys, social workers, and advocates provide a wide range of legal and advocacy services to clients with complex legal needs, their families, and communities in Brooklyn and Queens.
BDS’s Civil Justice Practice (CJP) aims to reduce civil collateral and direct consequences from legal system involvement and provides legal services in Housing and Benefits, Education, Employment, and other matters. CJP also serves as a resource to BDS’s other practice areas, advising attorneys, clients, and other staff of potential ramifications of criminal and family court involvement, as well as accepting cases from community referrals at our community office.
The candidate will work directly with BDS clients facing employment-related collateral consequences due to an arrest or prior conviction. Attorneys work across practice areas to determine employment-safe plea agreements and engage in direct employer advocacy and represent workers in hearings to lift license suspensions and revocations, affirmative discrimination complaints, and applications for post-conviction relief (i.e., sealing a prior conviction) to limit the lasting harm that comes from current and past involvement in court systems. We address workers’ rights issues, including filing complaints about wage theft and demanding back wages, asserting rights to paid leave and workplace accommodations, and assisting with unemployment insurance claims and other employment benefits. Employment lawyers also work closely with our immigration team to explore how pending employment law claims can make workers in removal proceedings eligible for immigration relief, including U and T visas. Because stable employment and financial security are so closely tied to positive outcomes in other court proceedings, our employment attorneys contribute significantly to our core work of avoiding harsh sentences, keeping families together, and avoiding immigration consequences.
Responsibilities
- Engage in direct representation of individuals on employment matters, such as wage and hour violations, workplace discrimination, and other common problems facing low-wage workers.
- Advise individuals who have been arrested to help them understand the collateral employment consequences of a pending case and possible resolutions and provide direct employer advocacy to help keep workers who have been arrested employed.
- Provide representation in license suspension and revocation hearings to workers who have been arrested to help preserve jobs in city or state-regulated industries.
- Screen immigrant workers in removal proceedings for paths to immigration relief and represent workers before the federal and New York Departments of Labor to obtain U and T visa certifications.
- Represent individuals seeking to claim unemployment and other employment benefits.
- File motions to seal eligible offenses under New York’s sealing statute.
- Conduct legal research, write legal memoranda, and train staff and outside organizations.
- Assist in identifying and developing impact litigation and policy platforms for systemic reform.
- Collaborate with attorneys and social workers in BDS criminal, family, and immigration practices to address the varied employment BDS clients.
- Additional responsibilities as assigned.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Admission to the New York bar or eligibility to become admitted.
- 1 to 5 years of experience providing direct legal services representation, with a preference for experience representing clients in employment matters.
- Interest in representing clients who face multiple interrelated issues.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, including an ability to work across practices with colleagues concurrently representing clients.
- Efficient, organized work style and an ability to prioritize quickly and manage multiple deadlines and emergencies.
- Experience with criminal defense, family defense, immigrant rights work, or direct civil legal services work is a plus.
- Candidates with proficiency in a language other than English are encouraged to apply.
POSITION INFORMATION
This is a full-time, exempt, salaried position in the collective bargaining unit. The position is based at BDS’s offices and NYC courts and administrative forums.
BDS determines salary on a pay scale based on education and experience. For this position, there is a salary range of $90,000 - $105,000 depending on the applicant’s education and experience. BDS offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance and a 403(b)-retirement plan. In order to support work/life balance and family-friendly policies, BDS has generous vacation, sick, holiday, family, and medical leave policies.
APPLICATION
Click “Apply Now” to submit a cover letter and resume on our online application portal. Please submit your application by June 15, 2026.
Brooklyn Defender Services is a proud equal opportunity employer committed to celebrating diversity and maintaining an equitable and inclusive work environment. We strongly encourage candidates of all identities, expressions, orientations, disabilities, and experiences to apply. If you require an accommodation due to a disability or another reason, please contact the Managing Director, H.R., Christina Wallace, at cwallace @ bds.org.
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Which nonprofit organizations in New York sponsor H-1B visas?
Some of the most active H-1B visa sponsors in New York's nonprofit sector include Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Mount Sinai Health System, Weill Cornell Medicine, the United Nations and its affiliated agencies, Rockefeller Foundation, Wildlife Conservation Society, and large social services organizations like Catholic Charities. Research universities with nonprofit status, such as Columbia and NYU, are also significant sponsors for research and administrative roles.
Which cities in New York have the most nonprofit H-1B sponsorship jobs?
New York City accounts for the overwhelming majority of nonprofit H-1B sponsorship activity in the state, driven by its concentration of international NGOs, major hospital systems, research institutions, and foundations. Albany has a notable cluster of policy-focused nonprofits tied to state government. Buffalo and Rochester have a smaller but active nonprofit presence, particularly in healthcare and community development organizations.
What types of nonprofit roles typically qualify for H-1B sponsorship in New York?
H-1B sponsorship in New York's nonprofit sector most commonly covers roles that require at least a bachelor's degree in a specific field. These include biomedical researchers, data analysts, software engineers, public health specialists, healthcare clinicians, policy analysts, financial analysts, and program managers with specialized academic backgrounds. General administrative or direct-service positions that do not require a degree in a specific specialty field typically do not qualify as H-1B specialty occupations.
How do I find nonprofit H-1B sponsorship jobs in New York?
Migrate Mate is a job board specifically designed for international candidates seeking H-1B sponsorship, with filters for visa type, industry, and state. You can use it to browse nonprofit H-1B jobs in New York directly, filtering by the Non-Profit and Social Services category and New York as the location. This saves significant time compared to manually screening job postings for sponsorship eligibility across general job boards.
Are there any New York-specific considerations for H-1B sponsorship in the nonprofit sector?
Nonprofits that qualify as cap-exempt institutions, such as universities, affiliated research organizations, and certain government-affiliated nonprofits, can file H-1B petitions year-round without being subject to the annual lottery. This is a meaningful distinction in New York, where many large employers, including major hospital systems and research centers, meet this exemption. Candidates targeting these organizations are not limited to the April filing window.
What is the prevailing wage for H-1B nonprofit jobs in New York?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.