Position Details 

K. Adeniyi Law, APC is a mission-driven family defense firm committed to protecting family integrity and challenging the systems that threaten it. We represent parents navigating the family policing system with a focus on dignity, community, and justice.

Our practice centers the families most impacted by surveillance and separation, while remaining deeply inclusive of all backgrounds and experiences. We partner with legal doulas, community-based advocates, and service providers tensure that families receive holistic, trauma-informed support—inside and outside the courtroom. Whether we’re standing with a parent to avoid court involvement and minimize the trauma of a family policing investigation or advocating for reunification, we approach every case with care, strategy, and the belief that families belong together and deserve to have the resources they need to thrive.

As a Family Defender, you will represent parents in three key areas: (1) family policing investigations and CACI administrative hearings, (2) juvenile court proceedings, and (3) federal civil rights litigation under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. You will handle cases in both juvenile and federal court, conduct hearings and bench trials, and engage in strategic litigation to protect family integrity and advance the goals of the families we serve. This is a client-centered role that demands courtroom experience, cultural humility, and a deep commitment to justice for families impacted by the family policing system.

Collaborative Legal Advocacy:

• Work closely with a multidisciplinary defense team—including paralegals, legal doulas, investigators, and expert witnesses—to provide holistic, high-quality legal defense to parents and caregivers. Our goal is to protect family integrity and advance client-identified objectives, such as avoiding court involvement, keeping children out of the foster system, minimizing the length of system entanglement, and connecting families to concrete resources when appropriate.

Direct Legal Representation:

• Represent parents at all stages of involvement with the family policing system, including during:

  • CPS investigations and Child Abuse Central Index (CACI) administrative hearings;

  • Juvenile dependency proceedings in family policing (juvenile) court; and

  • Federal civil rights litigation brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983.

Strategic Litigation and Case Planning:

• Develop and execute effective case strategies that are legally sound and aligned with client goals. Prepare and submit persuasive written advocacy, conduct evidentiary hearings and bench trials, and participate in strategic litigation aimed at challenging unlawful government conduct.

Client-Centered Communication and Advocacy:

• Maintain regular, clear, and compassionate communication with clients. Provide trauma-informed and culturally competent legal services, centering each family’s lived experience, values, and voice throughout the legal process.

Narrative Change Through Advocacy and Storytelling:

• Help disrupt harmful narratives about families—especially those rooted in bias, poverty, or race—through strategic storytelling and advocacy. This may include the use of declarations, media, or other client-approved platforms that elevate the dignity and strength of families navigating unjust systems.

Community Legal Education and Systems Accountability:

• Engage in public education efforts, including delivering Know Your Rights trainings to parents and caregivers, and facilitating workshops for mandated reporters—such as teachers, doctors, and service providers—on how to act as “mandated supporters” instead of funneling families into harmful systems.

• Licensed and in good standing with the California State Bar

• Demonstrated courtroom experience, with at least 3+ years in family defense or 3+ years in criminal defense plus 1+ year in family defense

• Strong legal writing skills and effective oral advocacy

• Comfortable working with parents impacted by poverty, surveillance, and trauma

• Deeply committed to dismantling the family policing system and advancing racial, reproductive, and social justice.