Join the Earthrise team as a summer clerk next summer!

Earthrise Law Center is now accepting applications from current law students who will have completed their 1L year by April 2025—or anyone who has already completed more than 32 credits of course work—for its summer of 2025 clerkship program

All applying students must be work-study eligible and will be paid through the work study program. The pay rate is $18/hr.

Earthrise’s summer clerks’ responsibilities include assisting Earthrise clinical professors and staff attorneys in all aspects of public interest environmental litigation and advocacy, including matter development, legal research, drafting pleadings and motions, participating in negotiations, policy analysis and advocacy, and potentially court appearances. Earthrise is looking for applicants with strong research and writing skills and a demonstrated interest in public interest environmental law.

Summer clerks will be expected to work a minimum of ten weeks, forty hours per week. Work schedules will be flexible, allowing for vacations and long weekends. Note also that Earthrise has a staff attorney based in the Massachusetts, and it may be possible for one extern or intern also to be based in Massachusetts.

Each application should include a cover letter explaining your interest in working at Earthrise. For purposes of evaluating conflicts, please also complete the Earthrise conflicts form. Along with your cover letter and completed conflicts form your application must also include your current resume, a transcript (unofficial is fine), and maximum 10-page writing sample.
If possible please combine these documents into one PDF file. Do not send hard copies to Earthrise.

Please e-mail Professors Dan Rohlf, rohlf@lclark.edu or Tom Buchele, tbuchele@lclark.edu, with any questions. Interested students should submit their applications electronically to Earthrise@lclark.edu.

All applications must be received on or before Friday, January 10 at 11:59pm.

Information Sessions

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