Job Description
Job Description
Job Description
Are you passionate about litigation fighting climate change and accelerating the transition to clean energy and advancing sound energy policy and fair utility rates?
If you are an attorney with 4 or more years of strong litigation experience, we want to talk with you! Consider joining our winning team of talented, mission-driven professionals, who effectively work together to protect the environment and natural resources in the Midwest.
This new public interest litigation attorney position, based in Columbus, Ohio, will focus on litigation before the Public Utilities Commission to accelerate clean, renewable energy as well as federal and state litigation to protect the environment.
About ELPC: The Environmental Law & Policy Center is the Midwest’s leading environmental legal advocacy organization. We drive transformational policy changes with national impacts.
ELPC shows that environmental progress and economic development can be achieved together by putting sustainability principles into practice. We advance climate solutions by accelerating clean renewable energy alternatives to conventional power plants and promoting clean transportation solutions. We protect the Great Lakes and defend the Midwest’s wild and natural places, and we fight for safe, clean water and healthy clean air for all. We combine effective public interest litigation with strategic policy advocacy, sound science, and economic analysis. ELPC produces strong results for the environment in the courtrooms, boardrooms, and legislative hearing rooms across the Midwest states and in Washington D.C.
TITLE: SENIOR ASSOCIATE ATTORNEY – COLUMBUS, OHIO
REPORTS TO: MANAGING ATTORNEY
LOCATION: COLUMBUS, OH
STATUS: Full time, Exempt (per Fair Labor Standards Act). ELPC offers a hybrid work environment, with a split between in-office and remote work.
POSITION SUMMARY This Sr. Associate Attorney position combines litigation with legal and policy advocacy to promote clean energy in Ohio and the Midwest. They will litigate cases before the Ohio Public Utilities Commission and state and federal courts, and advance program goals. The position will work closely with ELPC attorneys, as well as with our partners and clients at other environmental, public health, and community organizations.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES : - Litigate cases on clean energy issues before the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio and the courts, as well as other commissions around the Midwest.
- Advocate for clean energy laws at the Ohio Legislature.
- Play leadership role in clean energy community in the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio
- Work as an integral part of ELPC’s public interest, entrepreneurial and multidisciplinary team across the Midwest.
QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE - Juris Doctor degree with a strong academic record
- 4 or more years of relevant environmental and clean energy litigation experience. Prior experience litigating electric and/or natural gas utility cases before the Ohio Public Service Commission or similar state utility commission strongly preferred.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES - Environmental and clean energy litigation experience with a track record of success, and a desire to continuously learn and improve.
- An inspired and demonstrated commitment to public interest advocacy.
- Sound understanding of and interest in strategic, multifaceted public interest advocacy that coordinates litigation with media, legislative work, rigorous policy and economic analysis, and public education and organizing.
- Team player who works effectively with ELPC’s multidisciplinary project teams including attorneys, policy advocates, scientists, communications specialists, and organizers.
- Ability to work on varying assignments as needed and manage multiple priorities with defined deadlines.
ESTIMATED TRAVEL : Up to 10% domestic travel, mostly within Ohio with 3 – 5 trips annually to Chicago.
SALARY : For attorneys with four years of post-JD litigation experience, $100,000.
We may consider applications with less or more experience, for which salary will be commensurate with experience .
ELPC also offers an attractive and competitive benefits package, including vacation and sick days, 403b safe harbor and matching contributions and a unique wellness benefit.
ELPC’s EEO Statement: Environmental Law & Policy Center is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace and provides consideration for an employment relationship without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression, gender identity, genetic predisposition, national origin, ethnicity, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. Powered by JazzHR
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