We are looking for a Litigator to join our small, high-impact team dealing with a growing portfolio of international strategic climate and nature litigation. This is an opportunity to work on groundbreaking and precedent-setting litigation with real-world environmental impact.
About Us and Our Litigation Projects
We are a small ambitious UK-registered charity which undertakes projects that protect and restore wild landscapes, helping to provide a future for all life on earth. We use the skills and expertise of our multi-disciplinary team (spanning science, law, economics, technology and culture) to develop projects that protect and restore wild, natural landscapes.
We have two ongoing litigation programmes:
- Through the Forest Litigation Collaborative (FLC) we use litigation and quasi-legal actions to protect forest ecosystems, including combating the rise of forest biomass energy and its wrongful treatment as a 'zero-carbon' energy source. This involves collaborating with local NGOs and lawyers across the globe, whilst engaging in legal thinking spanning policy, public law, corporate law, consumer law and other areas, to develop and execute the most effective strategy possible.
- Our Litigation for Nature (LFN) project uses litigation to protect wild ecosystems or components thereof, while simultaneously promoting the restoration of these wild ecosystems where they no longer exist or are in a poor state. Continuing to fight against systemic threats to keystone species is an important focus and the successful candidate will contribute to developing our new Litigation for Nature strategy.
Job Purpose and Key Responsibilities
You will report to our Managing Lawyer for Litigation, Nola Donachie, and support her in the day-to-day delivery of our current and future litigation projects.
This will involve:
- Supporting the day-to-day management of legal challenges, including tracking deadlines, coordinating with external counsel and partner NGOs, handling correspondence and joining calls.
- Contributing to substantive legal drafting such as pre-action correspondence, legal submissions, and formal complaints to various authorities.
- Conducting legal research and maintaining up-to-date knowledge of key UK and EU legislation and policy relevant to strategic litigation.
- Analysing legislative and policy developments, contributing to consultation responses, and support on producing technical guidance for NGOs.
- Collaborating with partner NGOs to monitor developments and identify strategic litigation opportunities.
- Assisting Nola and our Director of Legal (Elsie Blackshaw) to develop litigation strategy and identify new opportunities, including funding opportunities.
- Contributing to external engagement, including press coverage, presentations, events, and written outputs (e.g. blogs).
- Task-managing trainees and volunteers within the litigation team.
- Supporting litigation-related reporting, including for funders.
Salary and Benefits
- Full-time, permanent position with a UK salary of £45,000 - £53,000 per annum
- Title and salary will be determined based on experience; salary may be reduced for those not residing in the UK to reflect local cost of living and cost of employment
- Performance based annual salary increases available
- Flexible working can be agreed with the successful candidate, as can temporary international remote work outside country of residence
- Benefits include 36 days’ annual leave (28 not including public holidays), expenses paid, annual Lifescape retreat and two in person staff meetings per year, full pension, remote work and training budgets, and provision of computing equipment. We also subscribe to a 24/7 unlimited Employee Assistance Programme, so there is always someone to talk to if you need support.
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