Associate / Staff Attorney

Legal Expertise:

• Serve as legal resource for Sierra Club campaigns.
• Litigate key lawsuits, under supervision of managing or senior staff attorneys; assume increasing litigation responsibilities including discovery management, settlement strategy, witness handling, legal research and writing, and oral argument.
• Analyze legal cases and trends for Sierra Club management and membership.

Strategic Implementation:

• Implement strategic, programmatic legal campaigns to support Sierra Club’s campaign objectives; help coordinate the litigation work of strategic legal campaigns; assume responsibility for relationships with staff, volunteer leaders, outside counsel and coalition partners.
• Help develop and plan programmatic litigation and advocacy campaigns to support Sierra Club's portfolio of clean energy for all initiatives, with a focus on decarbonizing the electric sector; assist in drafting legal components of strategic plans and reports.
• Help develop and execute work in a manner that centers on and promotes equity, justice, and inclusion, and intentionally address the history of inequitable environmental and economic burdens carried by communities overburdened by air, water, and climate pollution and disproportionate energy burdens.