NRDC is seeking a recent law school graduate to be a Frederick A.O. Schwarz Legal Fellow. This two-year position is available starting in September 2011. The Fellow will join a staff of lawyers, scientists, policy analysts, and support staff who work to protect public health and the environment through advocacy and education. He or she will work on federal litigation addressing a variety of significant environmental problems, including air and water pollution, other public health threats, threats to natural resources, and environmental injustices. NRDC represents both its own members and a range of outside clients, including neighborhood associations, regional grassroots organizations, and environmental, labor, and public health groups.

The law fellowship program is a longstanding component of ELI’s Research and Policy Division. The law fellow works closely with attorneys and other professionals to advance environmental protection by analyzing existing legal tools, developing new ones, and crafting innovative approaches to implementation. This may require considering how environmental protection is affected by other laws and policies that are related to environmental laws, e.g., those governing taxation, energy, and land use. Assignments will include legal research and writing tasks across all ELI project areas, and the law fellow may be asked to make public presentations and assist in facilitating training activities. The law fellow is expected to take on significant responsibility.

The Environmental Law and Policy Center (“ELPC”) seeks to hire a public interest attorney advocate who is a recent law school graduate for a one-year Environmental Attorney Fellow position in one of our Chicago, Des Moines or Minneapolis offices starting in Fall 2011. The Environmental Attorney Fellow will work on ELPC's environmental litigation and policy issues in the Midwest/Great Plains states and on related federal issues. The Fellow will begin with an orientation process in ELPC’s Chicago office. The Fellowship position is potentially renewable for a second year.

ELPC is the Midwest’s/Great Plains’ leading public interest environmental legal advocacy and eco-business innovation organization. ELPC's major program areas include: promoting clean energy development strategies that solve global warming problems and reduce environmental degradation by encouraging renewable energy development and energy efficiency alternatives to conventional power plants; promoting innovative transportation approaches that will lead to cleaner air and more jobs; and protecting and preserving critical natural resources and improving the quality of life in our communities.

The Environmental Law Institute (ELI) announces its annual fellowship for an outstanding recent law school graduate.

The Institute: ELI en visions a healthy environment, prosperous economies, and vibrant communities founded on just law and policy. To this end, we develop creative and practical law and policy solutions to enable leaders across borders and sectors to achieve environmental, social, and economic progress. ELI builds the skills and capacity of tomorrow’s leaders and institutions; researches and analyzes complex and pressing environmental challenges; promotes and disseminates the best thinking through dialogue and print and electronic media; and convenes people with diverse perspectives to build understanding through debate. ELI works with partners across the United States and around the world. We are independent and non-partisan.