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Consumer Rights Litigator (Attorney, 1–5 years)

Remote (DC, Maryland, or Virginia) · $85,000–$115,000 base plus an uncapped fee-share bonus

Banks and mortgage companies break the law in ways most people never see. We sue them for it.

Power to the People Law is a plaintiff-side consumer protection firm based in Washington, DC. We represent homeowners and consumers against mortgage servicers, banks, and debt collectors in Maryland courts, DC Superior Court, and federal court. Our work is about helping people who have been historically locked out of the legal system find their power.

We’re hiring our first attorney. You bring the ownership. We bring the fuel: more good cases than we can take, tools most firms haven’t touched, and hands-on training. You’ll learn from a team that has worked inside one of these banks and inside the federal agencies that police them.

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What you’ll do

  • Run your own docket of individual cases: mortgage servicing errors, Maryland foreclosure defense, and claims under RESPA, the FDCPA, TILA, and Maryland consumer statutes, plus payment fraud and predatory lending. You’ll draft the complaints, motions, and discovery yourself. At first, I’ll review every draft and walk you through each new step. You’ll learn on real cases, with someone checking your work.
  • Go to court, early and often. You’ll argue motions, handle hearings, take and defend depositions, and try the cases that don’t settle, in Maryland circuit courts, DC Superior Court, and federal court. We set up every case as if it’s going to trial. This isn’t a job where you sit in the back and write memos.
  • Tell the story. Our cases are built on stacks of dense paper: payment histories, escrow statements, servicer letters that contradict each other. Behind that paper is usually a family trying to keep their home. You’ll sit with clients, dig through their documents, and find the story in them. Then you’ll tell it so a busy judge can feel it. That’s how these cases get won, and we’ll work on it together on every case.
  • Keep time records that hold up on a fee petition. Fee-shifting statutes help our clients get made whole, and they’re a big part of how we get paid.
  • Help build the firm. Fix a process, test a new tool (AI included), and write down what works.

What it’s like

Our firm is me and a small team. That means there is no buffer between you and the work. You’ll carry more responsibility in your first year than many associates see in five. The pace is real, and the clients are counting on us.

We also keep it sane. The job is remote. I have small kids, so I know life comes up. I’m not going to watch the clock as long as the work gets done. What I do care about is hearing about a problem the same day, not finding it later.

We don’t churn cases or send out volume settlement letters. We take fewer cases and litigate them hard, often on theories other firms won’t try.

That matters more now than it has in years. The federal government has pulled way back from policing banks and mortgage companies. A lot of that job now falls to state enforcers and to private lawyers like us. If you came up in government and watched enforcement work get cut, this is where it keeps going. Anyone who still thinks plaintiff-side consumer law is a fallback hasn’t been paying attention.

We’re doers. We attack cases creatively, often with arguments no one has made before, and then we move them. Seneca wrote that we must match the swiftness of time with the swiftness of our actions. Drink fast, he said, from a stream that won’t always flow. For our clients, that’s literal. A foreclosure sale date doesn’t wait for anyone to finish thinking. So we think hard, decide, and file.

If you’d rather keep turning the same idea over for months, or jump to the next idea before finishing the last one, this isn’t the place. We’re serious about this work, and today is the day to do it.

Who you are

We care more about how you work than where you’ve worked. Here’s what we’re looking for:

  • You own your work. You see what needs doing and do it. You try a new way, learn from what breaks, and speak up the moment something goes wrong.
  • You finish. You’d rather put a strong draft in front of me today than a perfect one next month.
  • You want feedback, and a lot of it. You’d rather hear what’s wrong than get a gold star. You don’t need to be the smartest person in the room.
  • You write clearly, and you can tell a story on paper.

You don’t need to know RESPA (or all the other laws we deal with) yet. We can teach the law. We can’t teach drive.

The basics:

  • An active license in DC or Maryland, and a plan to get admitted in the other one right away. We pay the fees and help with the applications.
  • You live in Maryland, DC, or Virginia.
  • 1–5 years of litigation experience (clerkships count).

Who you’ll work with

You’ll work directly with me, Angel Reyes. I founded the firm in 2025 after serving as an enforcement attorney at the FTC and the CFPB. You’ll also work with one of our mortgage experts who worked at one of these banks and has been helping hold them accountable ever since. You’ll see these cases from the regulator’s side and from inside the banks.

I’ll teach you what I know, review your work, and back you up in court. You won’t get thrown to the wolves. Early on, a lot of your work will be closely supervised. As you get up to speed, you’ll take more of it on yourself. My job is to help you run and be everything you can be.

Pay and benefits

  • Base salary: $85,000 to $115,000 a year. This is the range we expect to pay at the time of posting, whether you work from DC, Maryland, or Virginia. Where you land depends on your experience and bar admissions.
  • Bonus: You own your cases, so you share in what they bring in. On every case you work, you earn a share of the fees above a set amount, paid as the money comes in. There is no cap.
  • Health: a monthly stipend toward the health insurance plan you choose.
  • Time off: two weeks of paid vacation and a week of paid sick and safe leave. The firm is generally closed on holidays.
  • Perks: we pay your bar dues and professional memberships, and there are some other perks we’ll tell you about.
  • Where you work: remote, with in-person court appearances, depositions, and client meetings in DC and Maryland.

How to apply

Apply only through the form below. It takes about 20 minutes. You’ll need:

  1. Your resume (PDF).
  2. A writing sample of 10 pages or less that you wrote yourself, with one line of context. Litigation writing preferred. Redact anything confidential.
  3. Two short answers, 150 words or less each: something you ran with that nobody assigned you, and a time you did something differently from how you were taught.
  4. Your bar details, and if you’re not admitted in both DC and Maryland, how and when you’ll get into the other one.

Take your time on the two short answers. They tell us more about you than your resume does.

No cover letter needed. We review applications as they arrive. Priority deadline: November 6, 2026. Start date is flexible, but sooner is better.

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Our hiring practices

We do not ask about or consider salary history, and we do not run credit checks. We will not ask about criminal history before a conditional offer, and then only where the law allows. Power to the People Law is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, marital status, personal appearance, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, family responsibilities, genetic information, disability, matriculation, political affiliation, military status, status as a victim or family member of a victim of domestic violence, a sexual offense, or stalking, credit information, homeless status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, DC, Maryland, or Virginia law.