Fall 2025 Litigation Intern
Fall 2025 Litigation Intern
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Overview
NRDC is a nonprofit environmental advocacy organization. We use law science and the support of 3.1 million members and online activists to protect the planets wildlife and wild places and to ensure the rights of all people to clean air clean water and healthy communities. NRDC was founded in 1970 and our people helped write some of Americas bedrock environmental laws including the Clean Water Act and many of the implementing regulations. Today our team of more than 700 lawyers scientists economists policy advocates communications experts and others work across the United States and the globe from our offices in Beijing; Bozeman Montana; Chicago; New Delhi; New York; San Francisco; Santa Monica; and Washington D.C.
NRDC is seeking to hire two Fall 2025 Litigation interns to work with the Litigation Team associated with our San Francisco and Washington D.C. offices.
Position Summary
The Litigation Team is a group of approximately 40 lawyers paralegals and other operations staff who pursue litigation across a broad range of environmental and public health issues in collaboration with and on behalf of communities most impacted by environmental injustices (including Black indigenous and people of color and lowincome and rural communities). Over the past five years we have litigated cases against the federal government to prevent climate pollution challenge agency approvals of toxic chemicals and pesticides resist the suspension of clean water safeguards oppose offshore drilling and seismic exploration for oil and gas defend national monuments and protect energy efficiency standards among other matters. We also bring enforcement cases against corporate and governmental entities whose violations harm human health and the environmentincluding to protect the people of Newark New Jersey and Flint Michigan from lead in drinking water; to remediate toxic pollution in the Penobscot River in Maine; to abate mold in New York City public housing for residents with asthma; and to halt air pollution from a coalfired power plant in Illinois.Legal internsplay an active role on the frontlines to protect our planet and the communities that depend on it. Our interns do concrete work in support of our litigation including substantive writing and research and collaborate with NRDC Litigation attorneys.
The internshiptypically lasts about10 weeksbeginningat the start of the internsfallsemesterand endingbefore exams.Start and end dates and other scheduling details are negotiable but we look for a minimum time commitment of two days 14 hours) a week over the course of an academic term.This posting will be open until May 9 2025.
This is a paidpositionunlessthestudentis seeking academiccreditand their school requires the internship to be unpaid.You can find more information about our SemesterBased Litigation Internship Programhere.
Responsibilities
The most common intern assignments are legal memos sometimes coupled with informal oral presentations to case teams. Interns may also depending on assignment availability and interest contribute to the drafting of other litigation documents such as briefs and complaints. Interns are also invited to participate in litigation planning and strategy meetings.
Qualifications
This internship is designed for current law school students intheirsecond or third year of a J.D. program orinan LLMprogram. In assessing candidates we look for:
Commitment to NRDCs mission and values;
Strong legal writinganalytical and oral communicationskills;
Experience effectively working on a team;
Creativity and resourcefulness;
Commitment to public service equity or justice;
Demonstrated ability to work with people across different social identities and backgrounds; and
Record of academic and/or professional accomplishment.
Commitment to NRDCs mission and values.
A successful candidate need not satisfyall ofthese criteria particular becausea key purpose of oursemesterlegal intern program is to help our interns learn and develop new legal skills we welcome applicants who have room to grow as legal writers researchers and communicators.
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 planets most pressing environmental problems and we encourage applications from candidates whose identities have been historically underrepresented 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 incumbent will not qualify as an employee fellow volunteer or independent contractor of NRDC nor will the incumbent be guaranteed employment at the end of the internship term.
Our offices are open and we are operating in a hybrid model. We offer NRDCers flexibility and we encourage them to come into the office and spend meaningful time there in collaboration with their colleagues. We call this purposeful presence.
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For more about NRDC visit www.nrdc
Required Experience:
Intern
Employment Type
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