College Freshmen, Looking Ahead

Demosthenes49
Wed, 08 Feb 2017 18:41:54 +0000

@cbwalkup: Private practice lawyers are sometimes hired to help with those things. Agency lawyers definitely spend time helping write regulation and advising. There are also non-profits that do environmental work (e.g., EarthJustice, the NRDC). Each of those involves working for a client, it’s just that your client is sometimes your organization. Those non-profits that do impact litigation are paid in other ways, but the ethical duty is to the client there too.

I think if environmental law interests you you should spend some time investigating more precisely what kind of jobs are available. Then you should go talk to those people to see how they got where they did.