{"id":14704,"date":"2026-06-10T11:05:51","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T16:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/slls.org\/?p=14704"},"modified":"2026-06-10T11:05:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T16:05:51","slug":"staff-attorney-veterans-innovative-projects-new-orleans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slls.org\/en\/staff-attorney-veterans-innovative-projects-new-orleans\/","title":{"rendered":"Staff Attorney: Veterans &#038; Innovative Projects (New Orleans)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This staff attorney will provide legal representation, advocacy, and community legal education to veterans in the following parishes: Jefferson, Livingston, Orleans, Plaquemines, St. Bernard, St. Charles, St. Helena, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, and Washington.<br \/>\nPrimary duties are to represent veterans and their families in Social Security cases (disability claims and appeals, retirement, overpayments, cessations, reductions, terminations, and other benefit access issues); VA matters pertaining to pension, overpayments, and debts; housing; wills and power of attorneys; criminal record expungements; and other public benefits, such as Medicaid appeals. In addition, operating the medical-legal partnership (MLP) at the New Orleans VA, Slidell VA clinic, and Hammond VA clinic.<\/p>\n<p>This position is funded through the Bob Woodruff Foundation to help remove barriers to well-being and improve the quality of life for veterans in southeast Louisiana.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS<\/strong><br \/>\nLicensed to practice law in Louisiana.<br \/>\nThis position will be full-time with a salary range of $54,563 &#8211; $90,563, depending on experience. Additional compensation for bilingualism.<\/p>\n<p>If you are interested, please email your resume to Shannan Latino, HR Manager, at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:Jobs@slls.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jobs@slls.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This staff attorney will provide legal representation, advocacy, and community legal education to veterans in the following parishes: Jefferson, Livingston, Orleans, Plaquemines, St. Bernard, St. Charles, St. Helena, St. Tammany, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[94,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-employment","category-news","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Staff Attorney: Veterans &amp; 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