The Environment, Energy and Natural Resources Law Section of the North Carolina Bar Association (NCBA), with a funding match from the American Bar Association’s Section of Environment, Energy and Resources and the NCBA Foundation (pending final approval in January), is excited to once again offer up two environmental law fellowship positions this summer  for students taking positions in public or nonprofit sector organizations. The fellowships are designed to encourage disadvantaged or traditionally underrepresented law students to study and pursue careers in environmental law.
 
The fellowships are open to all first and second year law students from underprivileged and disadvantaged backgrounds, including minorities and students from households with limited resources.

Interns are expected to procure employment themselves; however, the NCBA will make every effort to assist them by advertising the program among the members of North Carolina’s environmental bar working in government and public interest agencies, passing on leads to the successful candidates, and advocating on behalf of the interested agencies. In previous years the following entities stated that they could place a law student intern for the summer, and expressed a desire for a recipient of one of our fellowships: Environmental Division of the N.C. Department of Justice and the Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League, the North Carolina Attorney General’s Office, the Southern Environmental Law Center, The Conservation Fund, the North Carolina office of the national environmental group Environmental Defense, the North Carolina Conservation Council (a coalition of environmental groups), the Land Loss Prevention Project, Legal Aid of North Carolina in Hillsborough (which for some years has provided indigent representation in environmental law), and the Catawba Lands Conservancy in Charlotte. Other placements may be available this year.

The fellowship salary will be $5,000.00 for the summer, with a minimum eight week commitment. A committee of the NCBA’s Environment, Energy and Natural Resources Law Section will select the fellowship recipients. Actual placement of the selected fellows will occur through a process involving the recipients and representatives of the potential placement organizations meeting with each other.

Interested students should send by U.S. mail, fax or e-mail:

• A completed application
• A resume and writing sample
• Undergraduate transcripts and Law School transcripts (2L’s only)
• Expression of interest

Application: [Application: DOC | PDF]

Application Deadline: Applications need to be postmarked by February 11, 2011.

For More Information Contact:
Please direct questions concerning the Fellowships to Ms. Robin M. Hammond, Esq., Real Property Counsel, NC Clean Water Management Trust Fund at (919) 571-6746 or robin.hammond@ncdenr.gov.