Senior Counsel, Reproductive Health Law Advising

Founded in 2017, the Lawyering Project is a legal advocacy organization that blends traditional impact litigation with movement lawyering to promote reproductive health, rights, and justice throughout the United States. Laws that undermine reproductive health, rights, and justice deprive people of moral agency, rob us of control over our bodies, and compound other forms of oppression like racism, sexism, and poverty. Our mission is to eliminate these laws and the harmful impacts they have on people’s lives. We are especially focused on laws that limit the availability or affordability of abortion care; contribute to disparities in reproductive health outcomes; embody gender-based stereotypes; or discriminate against people based on their reproductive decisions. We envision a society with laws that enable each of us to make decisions about intensely personal matters like sex, pregnancy, family, and healthcare based on our own beliefs and values, and ensure that we all have access to safe pregnancy care, safe abortion care, and safe communities for our families. The Lawyering Project has three legal programs: Litigation, Access & Innovation, and Pro Bono Initiatives. Our Litigation Program leverages the courts to eliminate barriers to reproductive health services and promote equity in access to care. Our Access & Innovation Program provides legal advice and technical assistance to healthcare providers, researchers, abortion funds, and others who make access to vital healthcare possible. Our Pro Bono Initiatives Program cultivates strategic relationships with members of the private bar and legal academy and operates the Abortion Defense Network, a collaborative effort by nonprofit organizations, private law firms, and government officials aimed at ensuring everyone threatened with liability for providing or supporting abortion care in post-Roe America has access to high-quality, values-aligned lawyers. For further information, visit [https://lawyeringproject.org](https://lawyeringproject.org/) and [https://abortiondefensenetwork.org](https://abortiondefensenetwork.org/). In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned nearly fifty years of precedent recognizing abortion access as a fundamental right, the Lawyering Project is committed to supporting all people seeking to obtain, provide, or support abortion care while navigating new obstacles and legal risks. We have seized on this disruption of precedent as an opportunity to reshape reproductive rights jurisprudence, situating it on a stronger and more progressive foundation. And we will continue to work closely with our partners in the reproductive health, rights, and justice movement—and allied movements—to realize our vision for a more just and equitable future. The Lawyering Project is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization. We have an all-remote staff with approximately two dozen full-time employees who may be based anywhere in the United States. Our annual operating budget is around $6 million. **About the Role** The Access & Innovation Program (“A&I”) provides free legal advice and technical assistance to individuals and organizations working to advance reproductive health, rights, and justice. A&I houses two initiatives, the General Counsel program and Reproductive Health Law Advising (“RHLA”). RHLA provides direct legal assistance to reproductive healthcare providers and supporters. We help clients navigate the post-Roe legal landscape; provide compliance advice to clients developing and implementing innovative models of providing care; and advise clients in multiple areas, including laws governing abortion, contraception, abortion-related speech, and cross-state care. We are seeking an attorney with significant experience working in the fields of reproductive rights, healthcare policy, and/or civil rights with excellent client-communications skills, significant experience providing compliance advice, and w…