Closing Date: 26th April, 2024
Description:
Earthjustice's Sustainable Food & Farming Program is accepting applications for two full- or part-time legal externs for fall 2024. We are seeking law students who share a passion for justice and a healthy environment, and who are eligible to receive academic credit or fulfill a graduation requirement through this externship. The successful candidate may work remotely or on a hybrid schedule from one of Earthjustice's offices.Earthjustice is the premier nonprofit environmental law organization. We take on the biggest, most precedent-setting cases across the country. We wield the power of law and the strength of partnership to protect people's health; to preserve magnificent places and wildlife; to advance clean energy, and combat climate change. We partner with thousands of groups, supporters, individuals, and communities to engage in the critical environmental issues of our time and bring about positive change. We are guided by a passionate, ambitious vision for the future for people and our planet: until justice stands for all, we will never rest. We are here because the earth needs a good lawyer.
The Sustainable Food and Farming Program, within the Healthy Communities Department, engages in litigation and advocacy to improve our nation's food system, from crop selection and farming practices to food processing and sustainability. Working in partnership with communities, advocacy groups, scientists, and others, we fight for safe and healthy food, climate-friendly farming, reduced reliance on dangerous pesticides and chemical fertilizers, and animal farms—not animal factories. We take on cases with regional and national scope.
Responsibilities:
Under the supervision of an attorney:
- Assist with case investigation and legal research.
- Prepare memoranda and contribute to legal documents for administrative and judicial proceedings.
- Join strategy sessions and present research findings to attorneys, scientists, professional staff, and clients.
Qualifications:
- Enrolled in law school as a 2L or 3L during fall 2024.
- Must be eligible to receive academic credit or fulfill a graduation requirement through this externship.
- Demonstrated commitment to environmental protection or environmental justice.
- Excellent research, analytic and writing skills.
- Strong work ethic.
- Initiative, creative thinking and the ability to work collegially with others.
- Familiarity with environmental and administrative law preferred.
- Full-time externs must commit 37.5 hours/week and part-time externs must commit to at least 12 hours per week.
Compensation:
Legal externs are unpaid and must receive academic credit or fulfill a graduation requirement for their work with Earthjustice.