Litigation Fellowship, Separation of Powers (Fall 2027)

Pacific Legal Foundation

3d • Hybrid

About The Position

This posting is for the Environment & Natural Resources group. The PLF Litigation Fellowship is a year-long fellowship position for recent law-school graduates. You will assist the Environment & Natural Resources team in ongoing cases, learn to develop a public interest case from the ground up, receive hands-on training in research and writing, and study the classical liberal principles that guide our work. You will also be encouraged and expected to take on additional challenges, including legal research projects and communications efforts. You will work on teams with junior and senior attorneys, adding your skills and perspective to elevate our ability to win important victories for liberty. You will have the latitude to think big and the resources to execute your ideas. You will be at the forefront of shaping the law for all Americans. Pacific Legal Foundation identifies and litigates important legal issues to set landmark precedents that will benefit Americans nationwide. Our mission comes to life through four practice areas: Property Rights, Equality & Opportunity, Separation of Powers, and Environment & Natural Resources. Our Environment and Natural Resources practice roots itself in the belief that human creativity, unleashed through liberty, solves problems and expands the world’s potential. We defend the freedom to use public and private land productively by protecting constitutional limits on government power and promoting abundance through innovation. Using strategic and principled litigation, communications, and research, we battle for freedom in the nation’s courts and the court of public opinion.

Requirements

• Recent law-school graduate
• Confident and entrepreneurial freedom fighter with a passion for battling onerous government
• Passion for liberty and excited to get a crash-course in public-interest law
• Demonstrated interest in environmental law
• Outstanding interpersonal communication skills
• Knowledge of and passion for the ideas of freedom and individual liberty
• Excellent legal research and writing skills
• Resume, including experience in the liberty movement and relevant professional experience
• Cover letter explaining why PLF is the place for you, why you want to fight for liberty, and what distinguishes you from typical applicants
• Legal writing sample

Nice To Haves

• Passionate about individual liberty, property rights, and administrative law
• Confident and magnanimous
• Bold and relentless freedom fighter

Responsibilities

• Assist the Environment & Natural Resources team in ongoing cases
• Learn to develop a public interest case from the ground up
• Receive hands-on training in research and writing
• Study the classical liberal principles that guide our work
• Take on additional challenges, including legal research projects and communications efforts
• Work on teams with junior and senior attorneys
• Develop precedent-setting cases
• Actively participate throughout all stages of a case, from pre-litigation to discovery and appellate work
• Drafting briefs, comment letters, and research memoranda

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package
• Salary of $100,000
• Eligible for consideration for a permanent position upon successful completion of the program
• Flexible, collaborative, positive, and collegial work environment
• Investment in your future
• Encouragement of internal advancement

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree