Pro Bono Fellow or Externship, DC

Earthjustice is now accepting applications for a full- or part-time pro bono fellow or externship position in its Washington, D.C., office for Fall 2012 and Spring 2013. This position is designed for a current or recent law student (with academic credit or academic fellowship) or deferred/furloughed associate (with outside compensation) who is seeking the opportunity to volunteer for at least 20–40 hours per week for a short-term period of 3 months or more on a variety of environmental litigation projects.

Earthjustice is a non-profit public interest law firm dedicated to protecting the earth’s natural resources and defending the right of all people to a healthy environment. Originally founded as the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund in 1971, Earthjustice has been involved in many of the nation’s most important environmental battles and has established valuable precedents in cases involving air and water quality, endangered species, forestry, public lands, and international environmental law.

Earthjustice’s Washington, D.C., office serves both as a regional office for issues arising in the mid-Atlantic states and as a center for litigation on important national environmental issues. The Washington office’s docket currently includes litigation to: protect public health and the environment from air pollution; prompt the regulation and reduction of greenhouse gas emissions; protect streams, wetlands, drinking water supplies, and other waters from pollution and outright destruction; compel the federal government to improve its management and protection of our ocean resources; advance energy efficiency; and challenge the federal government’s practice of allowing mountaintop removal mining in the Appalachians. For more information about the office’s work, visit:http://earthjustice.org/about/offices/dc.