THE UNIVERSITY OF TULSA COLLEGE OF LAW Legal Clinic is hiring two staff attorney positions. Both positions will start immediately.

1.       The first position is a staff attorney for our newest clinic, The Buck Colbert Franklin Legal Clinic, which was launched in the Fall 2021 semester. Buck Colbert Franklin was a Black attorney who held likely the first pop-up clinic in the Country post-Massacre. He set up one of the Red Cross tents and saw clients with his law partner and secretary and successfully litigated against the City of Tulsa’s racist ordinance that was past immediately after the Massacre. That ordinance required that any building that had been burned in the Massacre be rebuilt with bricks. Given that not a single insurance claim was paid, the bricks were an expense that people could not afford. It is his legacy that we have the honor and privilege of carrying on.

Today, north Tulsa, the neighborhood that was destroyed in the Massacre, is a legal desert. It is home to a diverse population that includes Black Tulsans, Native American Tulsans, immigrant Tulsans and a poverty stricken population of all races and nationalities. To that end, we are working with the Tulsa NAACP on prisoner civil rights cases, with the Tulsa County PD’s office on excessive sentencing cases, expungements and parole, with Oklahoma Indian Legal Services on a variety of cases, and with community service providers to represent parents of color in juvenile proceedings to terminate parental rights. The Clinic will also be taking some limited family law cases. The staff attorney position is an exciting opportunity to be in on the ground floor of developing legal services for the north Tulsa.

The staff attorney will be supervising the law students’ client work and will be responsible for the Clinic’s cases year-round. A minimum of 5 years’ experience practicing law is required, with licensure in Oklahoma or eligible to be licensed in Oklahoma. The full description of the position and how to apply is at the link directly below.

https://universitytulsa.peopleadmin.com/postings/5149

2.       Our second staff attorney position is for a staff attorney to work closely with our immigration programs, representing our immigrant clients in non-immigration proceedings. All too often, we have immigrant clients who need quality representation in proceedings such as family law proceedings or juvenile proceedings, but we have a very short list of affordable legal services to which we can refer.

This position requires 3 years of legal experience, licensure in OK or eligibility for OK licensure.

The full description of the position and how to apply is at the link directly below.

https://universitytulsa.peopleadmin.com/postings/5147