Rutgers
July 31, 2019
Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division
August 3, 2019
Staff Attorney, Strategic Litigation Department
The Strategic Litigation Department’s goal is to reduce courts reliance on faulty and unreliable evidence. Focusing on the leading causes of wrongful convictions, the team litigates in the areas of forensic science, eyewitness identification, and unreliable confessions.
The Staff Attorney, Strategic Litigation reports to the Director of Strategic Litigation. The department is currently composed of a Director, three staff attorneys and two paralegals. Staff attorneys collaborate with each other as well as staff in the Legal, Policy and Science & Research Departments. The staff attorney hired to fill this position will work primarily on the Innocence Project’s eyewitness identification and interrogation/false confession law reform initiatives. This is a full time position and requires travel.
Erika Lago| HR Coordinator| Innocence Project | 40 Worth Street, Suite 701, New York, NY 10013 | 212.364.5397
