Under the leadership and supervision of the Senior Managing Attorney, this is a full-time position to be based in Chicago or Central Illinois. The Managing Attorney II will serve as a member of PILI’s Programs Team, with responsibility for managing PILI’s statewide efforts to expand and enhance pro bono. This is a dynamic position that requires both the ability to organize and coordinate at a high level, while also being actively engaged in administration and implementation. The ability to do regular and significant statewide travel, and limited national travel, is required.

The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of Illinois is seeking an experienced attorney to serve in the Civil Division and handle defensive cases where they will defend government agencies and employees of the government sued in an individual capacity in a wide variety of challenging cases and to represent the government in affirmative litigation when public funds have been wrongfully obtained by fraud. The Civil Division defends the interest of the United States from suits alleging statutory torts, constitutional torts, employment discrimination, and a myriad of other claims. The Civil Division also prosecutes cases for fraud and other violations of federal laws and is responsible for collecting monies owed to the government as a result of criminal fines, defaulted student loans, mortgage foreclosures, bond forfeitures and civil judgments. The division's civil rights enforcement program investigates and litigates cases involving discrimination in the areas of housing, public employment, disability, voting and education.

The Will County Bar Association in collaboration with the Black Bar Association of Will County, Latino Bar Association of Will County, Will County Women’s Bar Association and Spesia & Taylor Attorneys at Law is pleased to announce applications are currently being accepted for the Will County Legal Opportunity Scholarship Program.

Join us online from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, February 11 for an in-depth look at the programs and services that are available to tenants during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the general Illinois laws impacting tenant rights. Attorneys with basic to intermediate practice experience who attend this online seminar will better understand: the basics of representing residential tenants in eviction cases, as well as the eviction process; how to successfully negotiate landlord-tenant disputes; how (and why) to represent low-income tenants pro-bono in disputes with landlords, especially in eviction cases; what to expect during the legal process in residential landlord-tenant disputes; the potential defenses to eviction; and much more!