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The National Legal Director, reporting to the Executive Director and serving on the ACLU’s Senior Staff as one of its executive leaders, will play a critical role contributing to the organization’s forward-looking strategy to address and protect the aforementioned issues, while directly leading its litigation efforts. Directly supervising 150 litigators in the national office and providing substantive leadership to another 400 litigators in state affiliates as well as managing co-counsel relationships with 100 cooperating law firms, the National Legal Director directly oversees the ACLU’s U.S. Supreme Court docket and provides leadership for the national office’s litigation in all 50 states, Puerto Rico, and Washington, D.C. This senior leader relies on and partners with seasoned and talented Deputy Legal Directors who oversee the dockets of their respective issue areas.