Legal Fellow at the Center for Food Safety in San Francisco, CA

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The Center for Food Safety (CFS), the nation’s leading public interest organization devoted to legal advocacy in food law and sustainable agriculture, is seeking applications for its 2012 Legal Fellowship Program. CFS’s mission centers on protecting consumers, the environment, and farmers by challenging the impacts of harmful food production systems. CFS also works to strengthen food and environmental laws and enforcement at both federal and state levels, in part by promoting and protecting organic standards. This program provides an opportunity for a recent law school graduate interested in both litigation and policy work to become familiar with this new and growing practice area.

As a member of the legal team, the Legal Fellow will work on cutting edge issues, among them:

• genetic engineering,
• organic standards,
• factory farming,
• food labeling,
• global warming,
• sewage sludge,
• aquaculture,
• irradiation,
• nanotechnology, and
• state and federal legislative initiatives.

The Legal Fellow will work alongside the legal team on litigation in cases in federal and state courts, including case investigation, discovery, trial practice and appellate work. Other duties will include, but are not limited to, rule-making and administrative work at the state and federal level, as well as work on general legislative, public policy, and public education issues.

The fellowship is awarded through a competitive selection process. It is a paid one-year appointment, commencing in the summer / fall of 2012, and it is open to law students who graduated / or will graduate in the years 2012, 2011, or 2010, and those completing legal clerkships. The Legal Fellow is based out of CFS’s San Francisco office.