LAW STUDENT VOLUNTEER, Spring Semester 2025

Contract, Full-time

No

# LAW STUDENT VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY WITH ENRD
## Hiring Organization: Environment and Natural Resources Division

The Environment and Natural Resources Division (ENRD) is the Nation’s environmental lawyer and the largest environmental law firm in the world. It is responsible for litigation at the frontiers of the law, ranging from protection of endangered species, to global climate change, to cleaning up the nation’s hazardous waste sites. Over one-half of ENRD’s lawyers are involved in enforcing the nation’s civil and criminal environmental laws in order to protect the health and environment of citizens of the United States. ENRD also defends environmental challenges to government programs and activities. It represents the . in all matters concerning the protection, use, and development of the nation’s natural resources and public lands, wildlife protection, Native American rights and claims, and the acquisition of Federal property.

ENRD's Sacramento Field Office is looking for law students to volunteer their time and gain practical experience in environmental law and litigation. ENRD will consider both in person and remote internship arrangements.

## Qualifications

Student applicants must (1) hold full or dual United States citizenship (note: applicants must identify their citizenship in their cover letter); (2) have resided within the United States for three of the past five years, unless military/diplomatic service was involved; (3) be enrolled in, and in good standing at their law school; and (4) commit to work full-time in the summer over a period of 10 weeks, or a minimum of 16 hours per week during the fall or spring semesters over a period of 14 weeks. Second-year and third-year law student applicants must have completed a minimum of two semesters of law school. First-year law students, who have not completed their first semester, may only apply after December 1.

## Job Description

Law clerks will conduct legal research on a variety of substantive and procedural environmental issues. ENRD attorneys will make every effort to provide interns with challenging work in as many areas of their practice as possible. Interns will research and draft legal memoranda and briefs, prepare written discovery, present oral reports on research assignments, and attend planning sessions with client agency counsel and technical experts. Interns may also attend or assist with witness interviews, depositions, settlements conferences, and court hearings.

## Application Process

Applicants should email (1) cover letter (which must identify the applicant’s country or countries of citizenship), (2) resume, (3) unofficial transcript, and (4) a recent legal writing sample (maximum. 12 pages) consolidated into a single unlocked PDF file to:

## Salary

Strictly voluntary, uncompensated. We are, however, happy to work with law schools for students seeking academic credit for their internship.

## Upcoming Application Deadline

Friday, January 5, 2024

None

Academic Credit

None

Legal Research, Drafting Legal Memoranda and Briefs, Preparing Written Discovery, Presenting Oral Reports, Witness Interviews, Depositions, Settlements Conferences

Law School

Email (1) cover letter (which must identify the applicant’s country or countries of citizenship), (2) resume, (3) unofficial transcript, and (4) a recent legal writing sample (maximum 12 pages) consolidated into a single unlocked PDF file to

Qualification and Experience Student applicants must (1) hold full or dual United States citizenship (note applicants must identify their citizenship in their cover letter); (2) have resided within the United States for three of the past five years, unless military/diplomatic service was involved; (3) be enrolled in, and in good standing at their law school; and (4) commit to work full-time in the summer over a period of 10 weeks, or a minimum of 16 hours per week during the fall or spring semesters over a period of 14 weeks. Second-year and third-year law student applicants must have completed a minimum of two semesters of law school. First-year law students, who have not completed their first semester, may only apply after December 1.

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