Senior Attorney, Northwest Regional Office - Earthjustice

Senior Attorney, Northwest Regional Office - Earthjustice

Position/Title/Fund: Senior Attorney, Northwest Regional Office

Type/Term: Full-time, Permanent

Location: Seattle, Washington

Salary: $,200 annually

Description: Earthjustice’s Northwest Regional Office is looking to hire a collaborative and experienced Senior Attorney to join the team working on environmental, energy, and human health issues in the Pacific NW. The Senior Attorney will focus on accelerating the shift towards electrification of goods movement, the transportation sector, and associated industries. The Senior Attorney will concentrate on strategy, public advocacy, and litigation in state legislatures and regulatory agencies, Washington’s Utilities & Transportation Commission (UTC), Oregon’s Public Utility Commission (PUC), and state and federal courts to support an equitable transition to clean, affordable, and reliable energy.

The position is located in downtown Seattle, WA, where we follow a hybrid in-office schedule. It is available to start immediately.

Earthjustice is the nation’s leading environmental law organization. Wielding the power of law, Earthjustice 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 planet; to avert climate disaster by transitioning society away from fossil fuels toward clean energy; to safeguard the right of all people to a healthy environment.

We are here because the earth needs a good lawyer.

Founded in 1971, Earthjustice has a distinguished track record of achieving significant, lasting environmental protections. We achieve this by hiring people who share a passion for justice and a healthy environment. Our headquarters are in San Francisco with offices in Anchorage, Bozeman, Chicago, Denver, Honolulu, Houston, Juneau, Los Angeles, Miami, New Orleans, New York, Seattle, Tallahassee, and Washington, D.C.

The Northwest Office opened in 1987 to enable Earthjustice to take a more active role in preserving the unique natural resources and environment of the Pacific Northwest. Since that time, the Northwest office has undertaken campaigns to protect old growth forests, promote salmon recovery, improve water quality, protect Puget Sound, the Salish Sea, and the communities that depend on them, stop coal-fired power plants, prevent the Pacific Northwest from becoming a fossil fuel export hub, promote an equitable transition to 100% clean energy, fight air pollution, and protect farm workers and communities from toxic pesticides, among other things.

Although the primary focus of the Northwest office is representing environmental and community groups in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and northern California, we often take cases with national and international scope.

As part of our overall docket, we are focused on reducing pollution by transitioning away from combustion and towards cleaner, healthier technologies. To address both criteria and climate pollution—as our climate, health, and justice imperatives demand—we must transform the way we move people and goods, the way we heat our homes and businesses, and the way we produce, process, and assemble goods.

The new Senior Attorney will help lead ongoing clean energy efforts and develop new strategies to ensure a just transition to clean.

Our office is located in the heart of downtown Seattle near the federal and state courthouses and the waterfront. Our goal is to produce the highest quality legal work in a diverse, inclusive, supportive, and collegial environment. The Northwest Office has a staff of 19, including 14 attorneys.

• Lead strategy and advocacy efforts to electrify goods movement and transportation in Washington and Oregon.
• Work with our policy and legislation staff, as well as clients and partners, to leverage legal advocacy to obtain positive change and results.
• Lead complex climate and energy cases with the full range of litigation tasks, including factual investigation, legal research, discovery, briefing, witness preparation, working with experts, and oral advocacy, before the Washington UTC, Oregon PUC, and state and federal courts.
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