The American Association for Justice (AAJ) works to preserve the constitutional right to trial by jury and to make sure people have a fair chance to seek justice when they are injured by the negligence or misconduct of others even when it means taking on the most powerful corporations.
AAJ is seeking a State Affairs Counsel for its State Affairs department. The State Affairs Counsel provides legal, legislative, policy research and analysis of state legislation, assists with complex multistate State legislative projects, and supports AAJ’s state and federal advocacy efforts.
Job duties include:
- Analyze and assess state legislation for state trial lawyers’ associations (TLAs) and AAJ’s members.
- Monitor the daily progress of state legislative proposals for the department, including providing a regular summation of state legislative proposals that would impact the civil justice system and tracking relevant bills in all fifty states, the District of Columbia and all U.S. territories.
- Draft advocacy material, such as one-pagers, fact sheets, and talking points in response to state legislative activities and to promote AAJ’s and the state TLAs’ policy goals.
- Draft model legislation and sample amendments.
- Work with allied groups on joint legislative goals, including representing AAJ’s interests and working with coalitions and building a broader group of allies.
- Communicate with members, staff, and leadership, on policy positions, progress of proposals, and AAJ/TLA advocacy activity.
- Assist Director in advising Communications staff on state messaging and state press regarding state legislative proposals.
- Assist Regulatory Counsel as needed on state regulatory advocacy, including, but not limited to, analyzing impact of proposed regulations on AAJ membership, drafting regulatory comments and letters, conducting legal research on proposed regulations.
- Assist Director in developing strategy for specific initiatives or policy campaigns as needed.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
