The Pension Rights Center is seeking a dynamic, passionate, public interest-oriented lawyer to direct our legal program. The Center is a 45-year-old consumer organization that works to protect and promote the retirement security of workers, retirees, and their families.

PRC serves as the national resource center for six federally-funded regional pension counseling projects. The projects help individuals in 30 states obtain the pension, 401(k) and other retirement benefits they have earned, recovering more than $250 million in wrongly-denied benefits for tens of thousands of workers, retirees and their families. We provide the projects with legal and programmatic assistance and training. We also help clients directly, advise and train other lawyers, file amicus briefs, and operate online referral services.

The Legal Director –

• Oversees the day-to-day operations of the Center’s legal program
• Supervises the Center’s legal program staff and consultants
• Provides legal advice to counseling project and other attorneys and to PRC referrals staff
• Coordinates an annual training conference for the counseling project attorneys
• Develops training materials and webinars for counseling project and legal services attorneys
• Writes grant reports and proposals and serves as Counsel to the Center
• Speaks at conferences and writes fact sheets and blog posts for the Center’s website
• Analyzes counseling program data to promote the projects and identify systemic issues
• Works with PRC staff on the Center’s divorce and other legal and educational initiatives