Employment

Cabrini Green Legal Aid (CGLA) is a faith-inspired non-profit, providing civil and criminal legal services to Chicago’s impoverished residents for 34 years. We serve over 5,000 individuals each year in the areas of family, housing, criminal defense, and expungement/sealing/clemency law.

Additionally, our social work program addresses the underlying life challenges faced by many of our clients.

In addition to job-specific skills, we seek to hire employees and interns that embody the following characteristics:

• Demonstrated commitment to working with low-income and impoverished individuals.
• Ability to champion and embody our mission statement and guiding principles
• Participation in a positive, optimistic tone in a team-oriented environment of professionals, promoting collaboration, communication and coordination at all levels of the organization