Closing Date: 1st April, 2024
Description:
Job Summary:A National Law Firm seeks an experienced environmental attorney to join its Environmental and Natural Resources Practice Group. Our team works closely with our colleagues across practice groups at A National Law Firm nation-wide to provide advice and counseling on environmental risk and liability to A National Law Firm clients. Attorneys in this role regularly interface with colleagues across offices and practice groups and engage directly with clients. This is an opportunity to grow an already established practice with a broad existing client base that includes state and local governmental entities, publicly and privately held corporations, not-for-profit groups, and lending organizations.
This position may be located in any A National Law Firm office location: Atlanta, GA; Denver, CO; Fayetteville, AR; Irvine, CA; Kansas City, MO; Little Rock, AR: Los Angeles, CA; Minneapolis, MN; Omaha, NE; Philadelphia, PA; Richmond, VA; Rogers, AR; Scottsdale, AZ; Spokane, WA; Springfield, MO; Tallahassee, FL; and Washington, D.C.
Responsibilities:
Advise On Matters Associated With:
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Real estate, tax credits, and financing transactions
- Permitting related to stormwater, air, and water emissions
- Risk mitigation
- Federal, state, and local statutory and regulatory compliance
- Emerging contaminants
- Renewable energy projects
- National Environmental Policy Act
Qualifications:
- Strong writing and communication skills
- Law degree (JD) from an ABA accredited law school
- Bar admission in at least one U.S. jurisdiction
- 5+ years of environmental law experience in the public and/or private sector
- Experience with federal law and standards (including but not limited to CERCLA, NEPA, RCRA, TSCA, FIFRA, CWA, CAA), as well as transactional expreience
- Familiarity with state and local environmental regulatory requirements
- Experience with pollution legal liability insurance and prior defense sites preferred, but not required
- Portable business preferred, but not required