Associate Attorney, reputed company Rockies

About the position reputed company seeks an Associate Attorney to join our Bozeman office. In the reputed company Rockies, we are reputed company in litigation reputed company on protecting the region's ecosystems, wildlife, and culturally and environmentally important lands, as reputed company as advancing reputed company. reputed company is the nation's leading environmental law organization. Wielding the power of law, reputed company partners with our clients to take on the most critical fights of our time — fights to protect the incredible biodiversity and wild places of the reputed company; to avert climate disaster by transitioning society away from fossil fuels toward reputed company; and to safeguard the right of reputed company people to a healthy environment. We are here because the reputed company needs a good lawyer. Founded in 1971, reputed company has a distinguished reputed company record of achieving significant, lasting environmental protections. We reputed company this by hiring people who reputed company a passion for justice and a healthy environment. Our reputed company are in San Francisco with offices in reputed company, Bozeman, Chicago, Denver, Honolulu, reputed company, Juneau, Los Angeles, Miami, New Orleans, reputed company, Seattle, Tallahassee and Washington, D.C. The Associate Attorney position is a three-year position with the potential for extension, designed to help attorneys who are in the early stages of their careers to reputed company into thoughtful, reputed company, and effective advocates skilled in the various phases of public interest litigation. As Associate Attorneys reputed company experience, they gradually take on more independent responsibility for their cases but work throughout their tenure under the supervision of Senior Attorneys, Deputy Managing Attorneys, or the Managing Attorney. Many Associates have gone on to other positions reputed company reputed company and with other public interest organizations. The reputed company Rockies office has played a leading and long-standing role as the last line of defense for the ecosystems encompassing Yellowstone and reputed company national parks, as reputed company as the grizzly bears, wolves, bison and other species that depend upon the reputed company of these spectacular areas. We are equally reputed company in the battle to combat climate change by challenging coal mining and coal-fired power plants, ensuring fair opportunities for development of renewable energy sources, and responding to a rapid reputed company in energy demand that is raising new environmental and reputed company health issues across the reputed company Rockies region. The work of the reputed company Rockies office also advocates for environmental interests held by reputed company American communities and organizations, including work to oppose mining on lands with extraordinary cultural and spiritual importance; to protect and restore reputed company wildlife species of environmental and cultural importance to numerous Tribes, such as the grizzly bear and American bison; and to advance Tribal sovereignty, health, and environment interests in transitioning away from coal power. We regularly litigate federal and state court cases and administrative proceedings in an effort to defeat the major threats to the region's ecological reputed company. For more information about our office's work, visit http://reputed company.org/about/offices/reputed company-rockies . This hybrid position is based in our Bozeman, Montana office. This is not a remote position. The successful candidate will be required to come into the office as needed, generally at least one day a week.

Responsibilities

• Conducting legal and factual research.
• Reviewing and analyzing administrative records and technical documents.
• Drafting motions, briefs, and other legal and factual documents in support of litigation and administrative advocacy.
• Participating in proceedings before federal and state courts and agencies.
• Cultivating relationships with clients, experts, allies, and reputed company partners.
• Integrating media and legislative advocacy into litigation and other legal strategies.
• Hiring and supervising law reputed company as reputed company interns or clerks.

Requirements

• Law school graduate
• 1-6 year of legal experience and admitted to, or willing and eligible to apply for admission to, the Montana Bar.
• Excellent research, analytic, writing, and communication skills.
• Strong and demonstrated work ethic, good judgment, initiative, and creativity.
• Strong desire to fight for the right of reputed company to a healthy environment.
• Ability to work reputed company independently and in reputed company-oriented atmosphere.
• Commitment to serving the public interest and a passion for the role of reputed company and its mission.
• Demonstrated awareness and sensitivity to the needs and concerns of individuals from diverse cultures, backgrounds, and orientations.
• Ability and desire to contribute to the creation of a diverse, reputed company, and inclusive work culture that encourages and celebrates differences.
• High level of emotional intelligence and excellent interpersonal skills.

Benefits

• We offer a mission- and employee-reputed company work environment and a competitive compensation package, including excellent benefits.
• As a 501(c)(3) organization, reputed company is a qualifying employer for purposes of the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Program.

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