Position Title: Junior Staff Attorney (Administrative/Environmental/Climate Law)
Department: U.S. Legal
Location: Washington, DC, Onsite 2 days per week
Reports To: Senior Attorney
Application Deadline: Until filled
Start Date: As soon as possible.
Minimum Years of Relevant Experience: 2 years
Salary: EarthRights’ attorney salaries are set according to demonstrated years of experience:
Summary Description
EarthRights seeks a U.S.-licensed attorney with experience with civil litigation and/or administrative law, to help build and implement litigation strategies relating to corporate accountability for climate harms, including methane and other climate/fossil fuels work.
The Attorney must have litigation experience, either civil litigation experience, or experience working with administrative law at either the state or federal level, preferably with some exposure to environmental statutes and regulations or other regulations governing the fossil fuel industries.
Over the past 20 years, EarthRights has built a reputation as one of the leading legal organizations representing communities and individuals from around the world whose rights, livelihoods, and homelands are harmed by corporations, financial institutions, and governments. EarthRights lawyers have worked for decades to help frontline communities around the world shift power and disrupt systems of impunity by centering community struggles against powerful actors and channeling the accountability goals of the community into litigation strategy. We develop innovative legal strategies for accountability and our cases have set legal precedents, brought millions of dollars of compensation to survivors of human rights violations and industrial pollution, and changed the behavior of corporations, governments and international institutions. More recently, EarthRights has begun litigating on behalf of communities in the United States primarily with respect to the harms of climate change and has been developing innovative legal strategies to hold the fossil fuel industry accountable.
Under the leadership of the U.S. Legal Director and the direct supervision of a Senior Attorney on the team, the Junior Staff Attorney will develop and implement EarthRights legal strategies focused on holding the fossil fuel industry accountable for climate change and environmental harms, and its impacts on U.S. communities, especially with respect to methane emissions. The Attorney will be based out of EarthRights’ Washington, D.C., office, where we are currently working a hybrid schedule with 2 in-office days per week.
The Junior Staff Attorney may support other EarthRights litigation, especially during periods of a high volume of work. The Attorney will also coordinate with EarthRights’ campaigns and communications teams to amplify community voices and advocate for community priorities.
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***This position may be included in the EarthRights International Bargaining Unit - United / SIEU Local 500.
Send application to: https://earthrights.org/careers/
Application materials:
Candidates should submit the following materials:
References may be requested later in the process. Due to the volume of applications, only short listed candidates may be contacted.
Once your application has been submitted, please go to this link and fill out the demographic survey questions: https://forms.gle/gJFvaz73GkQGSNr18
This information will not be linked to your individual application in any way, but helps EarthRights evaluate our efforts at recruiting a diverse set of candidates.
EarthRights International is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate in its hiring practices, and actively encourages people of color, women, people with disabilities, and LGBTQI people to apply.
For more information on the work of EarthRights International visit www.earthrights.org
This is a grant-funded position with a duration of one year. There is potential for renewal contingent upon future funding availability and program needs.
Position Title: Junior Staff Attorney (Administrative/Environmental/Climate Law)
Department: U.S. Legal
Location: Washington, DC, Onsite 2 days per week
Reports To: Senior Attorney
Application Deadline: Until filled
Start Date: As soon as possible.
Minimum Years of Relevant Experience: 2 years
Salary: EarthRights’ attorney salaries are set according to demonstrated years of experience:
Summary Description
EarthRights seeks a U.S.-licensed attorney with experience with civil litigation and/or administrative law, to help build and implement litigation strategies relating to corporate accountability for climate harms, including methane and other climate/fossil fuels work.
The Attorney must have litigation experience, either civil litigation experience, or experience working with administrative law at either the state or federal level, preferably with some exposure to environmental statutes and regulations or other regulations…
Send application to: https://earthrights.org/careers/
Application materials:
Candidates should submit the following materials:
Send application to: https://earthrights.org/careers/
Application materials:
Candidates should submit the following materials: