We are hiring a 2024 Founder’s Legacy Legal Fellow
Earthrise is looking for a smart, enthusiastic, hard-working person with a positive attitude and a desire to have a career in the public interest environmental legal field.
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Earthrise Law Center is Hiring Founder’s Legacy Legal Fellows!
We are seeking a 2024 (or December 2023) law school graduate to be a Founder’s Legacy legal fellow starting in late August 2024. This is a temporary, two-year fellowship with no option for extension.
We have a full docket of exciting and complex litigation covering a broad spectrum of environmental laws and issues. For example, currently Earthrise staff and students are working on cases involving endangered species, water quality standards, forest protection, energy infrastructure, and more. The fellow will assist Earthrise faculty members and staff attorneys in all aspects of their litigation matters, including case development, motions practice, communicating with clients and expert witnesses, discovery, oral argument, and settlement. This is a fantasticopportunity to work with and learn from attorneys who are dedicated both to public interest environmental litigation and to training new lawyers on how to be successful advocates. The fellow will also work to develop their own cases.
Qualifications:
- December 2023 or Spring 2024 law school graduate
- Will be licensed to practice in Oregon within 1 year
- Excellent research, writing, and communication skills
- Demonstrated commitment to public interest environmental law
- You do not need to have taken the Earthrise clinic course to apply for this position
Applications are open and accepted here.
Deadline: 11:59pm Sunday, November 5, 2023.
Salary: $50,000, with an increase to $54,000 annually in second year of fellowship, plus benefits
To learn more about the position(s), attend one of our upcoming info sessions:
In person on Monday October 30th at 12:10pm in McCarty Classroom 2
Virtual on Thursday, October 26th at 5:00pm (Meeting ID: 87699594280, Passcode: 840392)
Earthrise Law Center is located in Wood Hall on the Law Campus.
MSC: 51
email earthrise@lclark.edu
voice (503) 768-6736
fax (503) 768-6642
Allison LaPlante
Earthrise Law Center
Lewis & Clark Law School
10101 S. Terwilliger Boulevard MSC 51
Portland OR 97219