We are hiring a 2025 Founder’s Legacy Legal Fellow

Earthrise Law Center is seeking a 2025 (or December 2024) law school graduate to be a Founder’s Legacy legal fellow starting in late August 2025. This is a temporary, two-year fellowship with no option for extension.

Earthrise has a full docket of exciting and complex litigation and advocacy matters 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 matters, such as case development, legal research and writing, motions practice, communicating with clients and expert witnesses, discovery, oral argument, settlement, and policy advocacy. This is a fantastic opportunity 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 matters.

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.

For a complete job description and to submit your application, please visit Workday. Please submit a resume, cover letter, transcript, list of three references, and a writing sample, as one PDF.

Deadline: 11:59pm on Friday, January 10th, 2025.

Salary: $59,000 for the first year and an increase in the second year of the fellowship, plus benefits

You can also contact Professors Dan Rohlf (rohlf@lclark.edu) or Tom Buchele (tbuchele@lclark.edu) with any questions, or current Earthrise legal fellows Lydia Dexter (lydiadexter@lclark.edu) or Zach Nacev (znacev@lclark.edu).

Information Sessions

• In-person: Monday, November 25th at 12:10pm in McCarty Room 2
• Virtual: Tuesday, November 26th at 5:00pm over Zoom