The Rocky Mountain office of Earthjustice is looking for law students with strong academic backgrounds and a desire to protect the environment and wildlife to work with us as summer law clerks.
Earthjustice was established in 1971 as an independent, non-profit law firm to serve the growing environmental movement. Formerly the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, Earthjustice now has nine regional offices across the country, and pursues more public interest environmental litigation than any other organization in the country. The Rocky Mountain office represents citizen groups of all sizes in actions covering the full spectrum of environmental issues primarily in the four corner states of Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona, but also in Wyoming, California, and Nevada.
The following is a sample of the current docket of the Denver office:
* Defense of Public Lands: Our office is involved in challenging the Bureau of Land Management’s attempt to eliminate protection for wilderness-quality lands throughout the West; efforts to stop the damage caused by off-road vehicles in Utah’s canyon country and Colorado’s mountain forests; and many other efforts to protect our western public lands.
* Responsible Energy: We are involved in numerous cases, both national and regional in scope, that challenge irresponsible and illegal energy development on public and private lands, including sensitive Wyoming sage grouse habitat, Utah canyon country, and wilderness-quality lands in Colorado.
* Ecosystem Protection: We work to protect the rich riparian corridors and forests throughout the West that are home to abundant native wildlife and many federally listed species. Earthjustice represents citizen groups in efforts to obtain protection for these important areas using the Endangered Species Act, the National Forest Management Act, and other federal statutes.
Law clerks work with our eight attorneys, conducting research, writing legal memoranda, drafting pleadings, and participating in conference calls and meetings. We encourage applications from people who will contribute to the diversity of our staff. Please respond by U.S. mail or email to eajusco@earthjustice.org, with a cover letter, resume, recent writing sample (under ten pages), transcript, and a list of three references to the attention of Hiring Coordinator, 1400 Glenarm Place, Suite 300, Denver, CO 80202-5050. No calls, please. Hiring for 2012 summer positions will begin this fall. We will begin interviewing second and third year students on a rolling basis.
Earthjustice is an equal opportunity employer and encourages applications from women, people of color and other members of under-represented groups who will contribute to the diversity of its staff.