Job Description

Everytown Law seeks a creative, thoughtful, and seasoned appellate litigator to serve as Appellate Counsel.

Everytown Law is part of Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund, the education, research, and litigation arm of the nation’s leading gun violence prevention organization. We are the largest and most experienced team of impact litigators in the country dedicated to advocating in the courts for gun violence prevention—one of the most pressing issues of our time.

We believe every person has the right to live free from gun violence. It’s our mission to make this belief a reality. We are looking for attorneys who want to use their litigation skills and public-spirited ambitions to join us in advocating on behalf of survivors and others directly affected by gun violence, including marginalized communities. Our clients include students, parents, civil rights organizations, domestic violence coalitions, and cities and counties.

Everytown Law engages in two primary areas of litigation:

1. Affirmative litigation to (a) seek accountability for and reform of the gun industry’s dangerous business practices, (b) take on dangerous gun lobby-backed laws that conflict with constitutional protections, and (c) enforce gun violence prevention laws.
2. Defense of common-sense, life-saving gun laws against Second Amendment challenges in the wake of the Supreme Court’s recent decision in NYSRPA v. Bruen, under the umbrella of the Everytown Center for the Defense of Gun Safety.

*This position will work primarily on Affirmative Litigation*

Recent successes in our affirmative appellate litigation work, both in-house and with partner law firms, include: defending a favorable remand decision in the Seventh Circuit in a case challenging Smith & Wesson’s unfair and deceptive business practices following the deadly July 4, 2023, mass shooting in Highland Park, IL; convincing the Fourth Circuit to affirm a district court’s ruling granting summary judgment to Anne Arundel County, MD, in a case challenging its ordinance requiring local gun shops to provide life-saving suicide-prevention information in its stores; persuading the Texas Supreme Court to deny cert on a petition seeking to reverse a lower court’s decision to allow a suit challenging the negligent and dangerous sales practices of an online ammunition seller to proceed; and, successfully arguing before the Ohio Supreme Court that it should affirm an intermediate court’s decision that a local school district’s policies regarding training armed teachers violated state law.

You can learn more about our work and our team at https://everytownlaw.org/.

SCOPE OF WORK AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The Appellate Counsel will have a high level of responsibility and self-direction. The primary responsibilities of the Appellate Counsel will be to work with our Affirmative Litigation team as follows:

• Drafting and arguing appeals of decisions from our affirmative litigation cases.
• Drafting amicus briefs on issues pertaining to the work of the Affirmative Litigation team, in trial and appellate courts.
• Working with outside counsel on appellate briefs, including amicus briefs.
• Researching, drafting and editing memos relating to appellate issues and recurring or thorny legal issues in the trial courts.
• Assisting in preparing legal arguments and briefs for cases headed for trial.
• Assisting in preparing significant legal arguments and briefs in trial-level dispositive motions practice.
• Working directly with clients, including survivors of gun violence and governmental entities.
• Working with teams across the organization to advance and defend sensible gun regulation.
• Participating in some interviewing and supervising of fellows and/or legal interns (depending on experience) and some public speaking, including presentations to law school students and at other public interest events.
• Participating in team and professional development, including retreats, trainings, and other events.

QUALIFICATIONS

• J.D. and membership in a state bar.
• 3+ years of overall litigation experience.
• 2+ years of appellate experience.
• Demonstrated appellate oral argument experience a significant plus.
• Clerkship experience a significant plus.
• Excellent legal analysis, research, writing, and editing skills.
• Outstanding attention to detail and an ability to explain complex legal concepts to both legal and non-legal audiences.
• Candidates transitioning from the private sector encouraged to apply.
• Experience working with marginalized communities and survivors of trauma a plus.
• A commitment to social justice, an interest in gun violence prevention litigation, and a passion for Everytown’s mission of preventing gun violence in America.
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to collaborate effectively within a team and with other lawyers.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and staff in a fast-moving environment and to deliver timely and high-quality work.
• Strong work ethic, sense of humor, flexibility, creativity, and a professional demeanor.
• Ability to work in a sometimes-hectic, open-plan office.

This is a full-time, hybrid remote/in-office position that can be based in either New York City or Washington, D.C. The salary range for this position is $105,000 to $135,000 per year, depending on experience. Everytown offers a generous benefits package including medical, dental, and vision, PTO, 401K match, education assistance, and more.

OUR CULTURE

Our team culture values kindness, positive interpersonal skills, collaboration, communication, feedback, professionalism, social consciousness, a continuous-learning mindset, a strong work ethic, readiness to take action, balance, and self-care. Our team provides a supportive environment for attorneys training to become great litigators.

HIRING PROCESS

• Applicants should submit a cover letter and resume.
• Candidates will be required to submit a legal writing sample and law school transcript, and may be required to complete a legal writing exercise.
• Applications will be reviewed and candidates will be contacted on a rolling basis.
• As part of our standard hiring process, employment with Everytown Law will be contingent upon successful completion of a background check.

About Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund

Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund (the “Everytown Support Fund”) is the education, research and litigation arm of Everytown for Gun Safety, the largest gun violence prevention organization in the country with nearly ten million supporters. The Everytown Support Fund seeks to improve our understanding of the causes of gun violence and help to reduce it by conducting groundbreaking original research, developing evidence-based policies, communicating this knowledge to the American public, and advancing gun safety and gun violence prevention in communities and the courts. Learn more at www.everytownsupportfund.org.

DIVERSE WORKFORCE AND OPEN CULTURE

Candidates who identify as members of historically underrepresented groups are highly encouraged to apply to Everytown. A diverse workforce and open culture are at the heart of our organization and vital to our success.

Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.

You can learn about the framework that guides our work by viewing Everytown’s Organizations Values.

How to Apply

Job Categories: Equal Opportunities. Job Types: Full-Time. Salaries: 100,000 and above.

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