You: An entrepreneurial builder – you love building relationships, programs, and talent pools. You want to one day watch a litigator fight for liberty and freedom at the Supreme Court and know that you played an integral role in helping them get there. You are excited at the prospect of building relationships with people and organizations throughout the litigation journey so that you can develop a legal talent pool for one of the nation’s top advocates for individual rights. You also know that developing a talent pipeline is a long play, beginning as early as college and stretching all the way to law firm partners. From managing our student programming and alumni efforts to building relationships with law schools and judges, you are confident you can level up our litigation team in the long-term.

Them: Bureaucrats, city councils, mayors, governors, and federal agencies stripping Americans of their rights every day. There is a lot of government overreach out there, and it is backed by seemingly endless resources. But fortunately, like all lumbering giants, abusive government is most vulnerable when countered by individuals who act strategically and nimbly, take calculated risks, have each other’s backs, and are confident in and passionate for the cause—the very sort of swashbucklers we employ in spades here at PLF.

Us: We fight back. Pacific Legal Foundation is the nation’s first and most successful public interest law firm dedicated to vindicating individual liberty. PLF has an unmatched record in the United States Supreme Court, with 18 victories out of 20 cases litigated at the Court. We also have more than a hundred active cases across the nation.

We are a next-generation public interest law firm. What does “next-generation” mean for a legal nonprofit? It means we are not interested in doing the same thing as everyone else. We aspire to be the best player in a constantly changing game.

Here is what you get to do in this role:

In this newly created role, you will drive a strategy focused on bolstering both the quality and supply of constitutional litigators aligned with our philosophical beliefs. To accomplish this, you will:

  • Take a holistic view of talent identification and development, potentially beginning as early as undergraduate school, extending through engaging with our program alumni and experienced attorneys throughout the industry.
  • Work alongside the talent acquisition team to identify, engage, and interview experienced attorneys, developing a ready network of aligned candidates for both immediate and long-term hiring needs.
  • Oversee our summer clerk and year-long fellowship programs and augment them to ensure they are supporting our efforts to develop a pipeline for legal talent.
  • Create and own relationships with law school career centers, judges, for-profit law firms and any other relevant organizations or people who can assist us in either identifying talent or offering positions to our talent.
  • Work with PLF attorneys to place them at speaking opportunities in law schools across the country to bring greater awareness to PLF’s work and our educational programming.
  • Develop an alumni program and craft the strategy for keeping our alumni engaged with our work and open positions.

This role is ideal for someone who has:

  • 5+ years of experience in the fields of legal talent acquisition, external affairs, and/or program management
  • A strong commitment to the principles of liberty and constitutional law
  • Ability to travel, up to 20%
  • Managed a program for developing talent, either in the legal space or otherwise.
  • Taken customer service to the next level, not only responding to needs, but anticipating them before they arise.
  • Proven their ability to build and maintain relationships with a wide range of stakeholders, internally and externally.
  • Dedication to elevating the next generation of constitutional litigators.
  • An ability to prioritize and timeline out various aspects of their work effectively.

General Information:

Pacific Legal Foundation identifies and litigates important legal issues to set landmark precedents that will benefit Americans nationwide. Using strategic and principled litigation, communications, and research, we battle for freedom in the nation’s courts and the court of public opinion.

As a national nonprofit organization, PLF has brick-and-mortar offices in Sacramento, California; Arlington, Virginia; and Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, although over half of the staff work from home offices across the country. You can work physically in any of our offices or request to work virtually.

This is a full-time, permanent position, reporting to the Talent Acquisition Manager. PLF is committed to recruiting and retaining the highest-quality talent available nationwide, and we offer a total compensation package that includes a competitive salary, medical and dental insurance, and employer-paid retirement savings. We take work-life balance seriously through our generous paid leave and flextime policies. We have a flexible, collaborative, positive, and collegial work environment. We take pride in investing in your future and encourage internal advancement. PLF is the place for someone principled, tenacious, and determined to succeed in positively shaping the future of our country and restoring real limits on government power. Join us.

To Apply:

Qualified candidates should submit the following application materials (in order) in one PDF document:

  • Your resume, including your experience in the liberty movement and relevant professional experience.
  • A cover letter explaining why PLF is the place for you, why you want to fight for liberty, and what distinguishes you from typical applicants.

Applications should be submitted to Talent Market via this link: talentmarket.org/apply-for-your-dream-job/

Questions can be directed to Bailey Drouant, Project Manager at Talent Market, who is managing the search process: [email protected].

There is no application deadline for this position. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis. This job will remain posted on our site until it is filled.

While we thank all applicants in advance for their interest in this position, we are only able to contact those to whom we can offer an interview. Only direct applications will be considered. No phone calls, please.

Talent Market is a nonprofit dedicated to promoting liberty by helping free-market nonprofits identify talent for critical roles. We provide consulting and recruiting services at no cost to 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations that clearly and directly focus on advancing the principles of economic freedom, free enterprise, free trade, free speech, property rights, rule of law and limited regulation.