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About the Role

NRDC and Yale Law School are hiring an Environmental Justice Legal Fellow for a two-year fellowship. The first year involves legal support for environmental justice communities at NRDC, focusing on litigation, policy, and coalition-building. The second year is at Yale Law School, supervising student attorneys in the Environmental Justice Law and Advocacy Clinic, focusing on community representation and clinical teaching.

Responsibilities

Develop relationships with communities and work with them to identify opportunities to partner or collaborate.
Actively engage in existing coalitions and partnerships.
Create project plans, track timelines, and determine key deliverables and milestones.
Manage workflows and collaboration across multiple staff members.
Facilitate and co-facilitate meetings, including creating agendas, taking notes, and capturing takeaways/next steps.
Follow up with responsible parties to ensure accountability.
Screen and develop potential new litigation, including conducting factual investigations and legal and policy research.
Write briefs, motions, memoranda, Public Records Act and Freedom of Information Act requests, and other legal filings.
Review environmental documents and draft comments under the California Environmental Quality Act and National Environmental Policy Act.
Provide legal and policy research, as well as updates around environmental justice issues.
Facilitate and engage in communication and follow-up with clients and partner organizations.
Represent NRDC at hearings, conferences, coalition meetings, and venues with decisionmakers.
Advocate for the adoption or passage of critical legislation, city ordinances, and government regulations.
Supervise and delegate projects to interns and volunteers.
Supervise student attorneys in representation of clinic clients.
Partner with the clinic’s director in shaping clinic seminar syllabi to support student learning and representations.
Co-teach substantive and skills-based classes as part of the clinic’s seminar.
Assist in the clinic’s intake process, in needs assessments, and in shaping the clinic docket.
Supervise summer interns during the law school’s summer break and cover cases during school holidays.
Represent clients on matters in early stages of development or secondary matters not staffed by clinic student attorneys.
Participate in clinical faculty meetings and trainings for new clinicians.
Contribute to development and enrichment of clinical programming in the law school.
Collaborate in development and operation of interdisciplinary environmental law and justice programming across the law school and university.

Requirements

Juris Doctorate within the past three years, as of the start date of the fellowship, from any accredited law school.
Admission to the Bar in the jurisdiction where the Fellow will be based during the first year of the fellowship, or willingness to complete the requirements for admission to that Bar.

Skills

Strong legal writing, research, and analytical skills.
Strong oral and written communication skills.
Strong academic and professional record.
Ability to contribute effectively as a member of a team and collaborate across a large organization.
Demonstrated competency in working with people with different social identities than their own (including race, gender, sexual identity or orientation, age, class, and disability).
Creativity and resourcefulness.
Commitment to NRDC’s mission, values, and DEI principles.
Comfort interpreting scientific and technical concepts.
Capacity to work hard, efficiently, and independently.
Demonstrated interest in fields of environmental law and justice, Indigenous rights and sovereignty, and/or civil rights.
Interest in mentoring students in advocacy related to environmental law and justice and in cultivation of legal practice skills.
Experience in creative and community-driven advocacy.
Prior legal experience such as through substantial clinical practice, a judicial clerkship, or other practice experience.
Prior mentorship or teaching experience.
Interest in scholarship and clinical teaching.
Knowledge of environmental, civil rights, and administrative law.

Location

New York, NY
Washington, D.C.
Santa Monica, CA
New Haven, CT

Work Type

Hybrid
In-person

Experience Level

Fellowship

Education Level

Juris Doctorate

Salary/Compensations

$94,500 to $105,000

Benefits

Generous time-off policy, highlighted by a company-wide year-end Rest & Recharge Week.
Generous family leave policy beyond federal requirements.
Matching 403b.
Premium Comprehensive healthcare and mental health programs.

About the Company

NRDC (the Natural Resources Defense Council) works to safeguard the Earth, its people, its plants and animals, and the natural systems on which all life depends.
NRDC combines the power of more than 3 million members and online activists with the expertise of some 800 policy advocates, lawyers, scientists, and communication experts to confront the climate crisis, protect nature, ensure the rights of all people to clean air, clean water, and healthy communities.
As an international nonprofit environmental organization, NRDC is working to address the world’s most urgent environmental challenges, and advance innovative, science-based, and enforceable solutions.
Since our founding in 1970, NRDC has helped craft and deliver many of America’s foundational environmental laws, including the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act and Safe Drinking Water Act.
Today, we continue to lead in advancing and defending strong environmental protections at the local, state, federal and international levels, as well as through the marketplace.
Our team works across the United States and around the world, from offices in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C., as well as in Beijing, and New Delhi (a subsidiary of NRDC India Pvt. Ltd.).
Supported by our members and online activists, NRDC is driving impactful solutions that confront the climate crisis, defend nature and safeguard public health across Asia, Africa, and the Americas.
At NRDC, we believe lasting change happens when people bring their talent, passion, and expertise together for a common purpose: to build a cleaner, healthier, and more resilient world.
The University is committed to basing judgments concerning the admission, education, and employment of individuals upon their qualifications and abilities and seeks to attract to its faculty, staff, and student body qualified persons from a broad range of backgrounds and perspectives.

Equal Opportunity

NRDC is committed to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion, both in our work and in our workplace.
We believe that celebrating and actively welcoming diverse voices and perspectives is essential to solving the planet's most pressing environmental problems, and we encourage applications from candidates whose identities have been historically under-represented in the environmental movement.
We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate in hiring or employment on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
The University does not discriminate in admissions, educational programs, or employment against any individual on account of that individual’s sex; sexual orientation; gender identity or expression; pregnancy, childbirth or related conditions; race; color; national or ethnic origin; religion; age; disability; protected veteran status, or other protected classes as set forth in federal and Connecticut law.