Colorado Nonprofit Association

Homeowner Defense Supervising Attorney

About the Community Economic Defense Project (CEDP) & CED Law 

Our mission

We partner with low-income and working people to build economic and racial equity. We do this by confronting economic abuse and investing in community wealth. We use an ever-evolving set of legal, economic and advocacy tools to challenge and dismantle unjust systems, building quickly towards a world where all people have what they need to live and thrive. 

Our Organization

Working with clients, we built a deeply integrated approach to eviction, foreclosure, and homelessness prevention that centers the legal and financial needs of housing-insecure families and uses a variety of tools to keep them housed. 

Our team now serves more than 1,000 people per month, bringing together housing lawyers, economists, data analysts, policy-experts, organizers, and technologists to serve our clients. We have served more than 50,000 low-income Coloradans across 45 counties, distributing over $200 million in emergency assistance. We have also contributed to the passage of major legislation to prevent eviction, stop economic abuse, and make credit and life-saving medication cheaper.  CEDP’s model has been cited as a best practice by White House, HUD, the Urban Institute, and in the media.

Building on our work to stop evictions, CEDP has further expanded its integrated services model to include disaster response, predatory towing, debt collection, benefit access & navigation, long-term rental assistance, and homelessness response. Similar to CEDP’s work on rental housing, these efforts offer a continuum of care that includes navigation and advisory services, targeted payments, legal support, and the ability to participate in advocacy. 

More about the Homeowner Defense Supervising Attorney Role:

We are seeking an experienced Homeowner Defense Lawyer to oversee CED Law’s Homeowner Defense Team. A successful candidate will have deep experience working in foreclosure defense and homeowner advocacy. The best-fit candidate for this role will have three or more years of experience in litigation, managing and developing programs, and administrative oversight.

To further ensure success, candidates are expected to lead in the advancement of the Homeowner Defense program’s mission to provide training and support for the Homeowner Defense Team and community partners.

In this role you will:

• Lead all aspects of the Homeowner Defense Team in preserving homeownership through defensive litigation, servicing claims, and other actions to preserve homeownership
• Supervise homeowner defense attorneys and paralegals in their work on public trustee foreclosure, judicial foreclosure, loan servicing violations, and other cases protecting homeownership
• Collaborate with the Director of Homeowner Defense and the Homeownership Affirmative Litigation Attorney on policy needs, case planning, and case strategy
• Set and complete case goals for individual attorneys and oversee homeowner defense attorney casework
• Review case-related documents developed by attorneys on the homeowner defense team and provide relevant feedback and guidance
• Create relevant training and professional development materials for lawyers working on foreclosure cases
• Manage a variable caseload, based on the size of the team and client need
• Oversee case reporting data for outcomes, case tracking, and other grant needs
• Coordinate across CEDP to ensure timely tracking and reporting of case completions
• Coordinate and assist with the preparation and presentations on homeowner and mobile homeowners rights to groups of clients, partners across the organization, and partner organizations across the state
• Complete required documentation for both case tracking and personnel management

Position Requirements: 

• Colorado Bar Admission and JD
• 3+ years’ experience in housing law, real estate, bankruptcy, lending, litigation or related law and litigation experience
• 1+ years of supervisory, mentoring, or other relevant leadership experience
• Ability to manage a team of Homeowner defense attorneys and a personal caseload
• Demonstrated passion for social and racial justice
• Robust research and drafting capabilities
• Strong desire to center client and community needs
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills
• Ability to travel within Denver Metro area and surrounding areas
• Ability to succeed working in a hybrid work environment (a home office set up will be provided by the firm along with access to our office space in downtown Denver)
• Strong organizational abilities
• Knowledge of MS Office suite, CLIO, Google Suite desired
• Other language skills not required but are a strong plus and eligible for additional stipend