Description:
Environmental & Energy Lawyers seeks a partner-level attorney to work in our Washington D.C. office. The successful candidate must have at least ten (10) years of experience within environmental law, ideally within complex litigation, including managing litigation teams of attorneys, paralegals, and legal assistants.Requirements:
Litigation Skills - This position requires eight (8) or more years of experience with the following:
- Federal and state court litigation, administrative hearings, and other legal proceedings, including:
- First-chair bench trial experience on matters with at least $1 million at issue
- Setting and executing case strategy
- Preparing pleadings
- Motions practice, briefing, and oral argument
- Document discovery, review, management, and production, including large-scale electronic discovery
- Taking and defending fact, expert, and document depositions
- Hiring and directing expert witnesses in diverse fields
- Evaluating and applying technical research and data to legal arguments
- Negotiating settlements and participating in mediation and other alternative dispute resolution processes
Legal skills:
- Team Leadership. Must effectively lead, motivate, mentor, and manage other attorneys, paralegals, and legal assistants, as week as consulting and testifying experts, and interact directly with the firm's clients
- Interpersonal Skills. Must be both decisive and collaborative, demonstrate strong verbal communication skills, and exhibit well-developed emotional intelligence
- Writing. Must produce superior written product. Experience as the primary author of client memoranda, arbitration and mediation briefs, motions, and/or appellate briefing is required
- Speaking, Depositions, and Oral Argument. Must be experienced, skilled and confident in verbal presentation skills in a variety of contexts, including before federal and state courts and national audiences of your peers
- Research. Must be efficient, creative, and effective in performing legal research. Experience researching substantive environmental law, civil procedure, administrative law, and regulatory requirements at the federal and state level is required
- Judgment. Must have the experience and aptitude to consistently exercise superior judgment and maintain high ethical standards
Preferred But Discretionary Experience
A portable book of business is highly preferred, but not required for particularly talented candidates
Other Essential Job Duties
Marten Law attorneys must be able to regularly travel nationally to accomplish legal work (client meetings, court appearances, depositions, discovery, expert witness meetings, and site visits) for our clients.
Our billable hour expectation is 1850 billable hours a year. This will require more than 40 hours per week to perform the essential duties of this position. The expectation is that this person will devote, on average, 37+ hours a week on billable job functions (more during trial) and another 7+ hours a week on non-billable activities (firm administration, marketing, professional development, newsletter articles, supervising others).
