Marten Law PLLC - Environmental Energy Attorney

Seattle, WA

Description:

• The team of lawyers at Marten Law includes recognized authorities in alternative energy, climate change, air quality, hazardous and solid waste, water resources and water quality, fisheries, environmental review and permitting, and a host of other issues that our business and public clients confront every day.

Requirements: 

• The candidate must have 2-3 years of experience. 
• Should preferably have a strong interest in litigation, environmental, product compliance, land use and/or energy law. 
• Excellent academic credentials are required. 
• Top law school or environmental law program and law review experience preferred. 
• Should have substantive experience with any of the following statutes or federal agencies: FIFRA, NEPA, CEQA, ESA, CESA, BGEPA, MBTA, FLPMA, CWA, SDWA, CAA, TSCA, CERCLA, RCRA, EPCRA, California's Proposition 65, California planning and zoning laws, and laws administered by the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the US Department of Agriculture, the Federal Energy Commission or the US Department of the Interior.

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Senior Counsel; Treasury Wine Estates

About the Company:

Treasury Wine Estates (TWE) is one of the world’s largest wine companies, listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX.TWE). The Company has a rich heritage and a portfolio of some of the most recognized and awarded wine brands in the world, including Penfolds, Stags’ Leap, Beaulieu Vineyard, Beringer, 19 Crimes, Matua, Chateau St Jean, Sterling Vineyards, Cavaliere D’Oro and Etude. TWE is focused on portfolio premiumization and brand-led marketing, with world-class production facilities in internationally recognized wine regions. The Americas head offices are situated in Oakland and Napa California. Our production and winery facilities are located in the iconic wine growing regions of Napa Valley, Sonoma County and the Central Coast. The Company sources grapes for our extensive US wine portfolio from a mix of owned, leased and grower vineyards through California, with wine production facilities also in California. Employing approximately 3,400 winemakers, viticulturists, sales, marketing, distribution and support staff across the globe, TWE’s wine is sold in more than 100 countries around the world. Learn more about Treasury Wine Estates at www.tweglobal.com.

Summary:

TWE seeks an experienced attorney with alcoholic beverage/wine industry experience and strong commercial and transactional experience in the consumer-packaged goods industry. This role will provide practical legal advice to TWE on areas including but not limited to federal and state alcoholic beverage laws, trade practices, compliance and training, commercial contracts and other transactional matters.

Key Responsibilities:

• Advise on compliance with US Federal, state, and local laws and regulations covering all aspects of the alcoholic beverage business, including licensing, production, packaging, distribution, marketing, sales and compliance.

• Advise on rules of international trade, including US Customs and US Treasury Department Tax and Trade Bureau laws and regulations, as well as US international treaty rights and obligations; coordinate with foreign counsel regarding compliance with alcoholic beverage laws and regulations of foreign countries concerning the alcoholic beverage business.

• Advise the marketing and direct-to-consumer teams regarding trade practice issues, including but not limited to distributor incentives, consumer tastings, social media promotions, sponsorships and samples shipping. Develop compliance rationale and devise creative solutions and alternatives so that TWE’s activities remain commercially competitive.

• Create and execute education programs on alcoholic beverage compliance issues.

• Support acquisitions, including detailed reviews of licensing, contracts and compliance practices.

• Negotiate and draft contracts for commercial relationships as directed by the General Counsel Americas, including advertising agencies, sponsorships, research, information technology, events, supply and procurement and others. Provide risk assessment and create and negotiate solutions.

Key Requirements:

• Juris Doctor (JD) degree required

• Active member in good standing of the California Bar or eligible to be registered as an in-house counsel in California

• 8 years+ experience as a licensed attorney at a top-tier law firm or equivalent in-house experience required

• Deep understanding of federal and state alcoholic beverage laws and regulations

• Self-motivator who can work in a fast-paced international public company

• Entrepreneurial mindset that enables you to successfully work independently with little guidance, but also to use good judgment and escalate issues when needed

• Sound and practical business judgment

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

• Excellent organizational skills and ability to multi-task

• Attention to detail is required

• Ability to maintain a positive work environment, contribute to group morale and reflect TWE growth behaviours

• Great sense of humour

Mark Johnson
Head of Talent Acquisition, Americas
707-299-3297
mark.johnson@tweglobal.com




Treasury Wine Estates is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.

Rinke Noonan Attorneys at Law - Environmental Litigation Attorney

St. Cloud, MN

Description: 

• The candidate will represent clients in the areas of agriculture, environmental, and natural resources law. May anticipate representing clients on a variety of litigation, regulatory, and transactional matters at the federal, state, and local level pertaining to conservation compliance and programs of the USDA, the Clean Water Act, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service conservation easements, state public water and wetland conservation laws, local land use permitting and controls, and public drainage proceedings. May anticipate working with private landowners and local and special units of government clients on issues pertaining to the management of water quantity and quality.

Requirements: 

•  All levels of experience, including 2019 graduates, will be considered. 
• Should have excellent interpersonal, analytical, and writing skills along with strong academic and professional credentials.
• Experience with the agricultural community, including demonstrated contact with farmers, landowners, or farm organizations is preferred. 
• Intellectual curiosity and the desire to solve legal issues farmers experience is required. 
• We anticipate the successful candidate will become licensed in Minnesota and North Dakota.

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Wilson Elser - Environmental Law Attorney

Florham Park, NJ

Description:

• Wilson Elser is a full-service and leading defense litigation law firm who faithfully serves our clients with more than 800 attorneys, across 39 offices in the United States and one in London. Founded in 1978, we rank among the top 200 law firms identified by The American Lawyer and 53rd in The National Law Journal's survey of the nation's largest law firms.
• Wilson Elser's Florham Park, NJ office is currently seeking an Environmental Law Attorney for their environmental, toxic tort, and insurance coverage practice. 
• This is an excellent opportunity for newly admitted attorneys, or those looking to gain experience in Environmental and Toxic Tort Law who are interested in joining a growing, dynamic team as part of a national law firm. 

Duties:

• Manage a defense litigation caseload
• Represent clients in a wide range of civil defense litigation claims
• Work closely with other attorneys and Partners on legal projects
• Regularly handle presentations and client relations

Requirements:

• JD from an accredited law school
• Admitted to practice in NJ (NY bar a plus)
• 4+ years of litigation experience preferred 
• Experience with insurance defense, toxic tort, or environmental law a plus
• Strong communication, writing, and research skills
• Legal project management experience is helpful

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Center for a Livable Future, Senior Program Officer

The Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future (CLF) is seeking a Senior Program Officer (SPO) to join its Food System Policy team and play a central role in developing, implementing and evaluating activities that engage the public health field in agriculture and food system policy at domestic and global levels.  sustainable food system.  For more information, see the job description on the John Hopkins job page.

Rural Coalition - Policy and Advocacy Coordinator

Washington, D.C.

Description:

• We seek a dedicated Policy and Advocacy Coordinator to join our team, working with our senior policy leaders, staff team and members. The qualified candidate should support our organizational mission with a commitment to social justice and equity, an attention to detail, and demonstrated ability to relate to our constituency.
• The successful candidate will work with our members, our leaders and our allies to ensure that the voices of diverse farmers, ranchers, farmworkers and indigenous and rural peoples are reflected to secure short and long term changes in federal agriculture and food policy. 
• The Policy and Advocacy Coordinator will collaborate with our Communications, Research, Federal and Field Project, and Development staff teams and our member Working Teams to coordinate work across the Coalition’s principle areas of focus. 
• The ideal candidate is a strategic policy advocate, coalition-builder, and experienced relationship and network manager, who is passionate about equity and justice and grounded in the food, farm, farmworker movements, with a deep understanding of rural and land-based, people of color, and indigenous community issues.
• The position will be housed at the Rural Coalition office in Washington DC and supervised by the Executive Director.

Duties:

• The Coordinator will work with senior policy staff team, and our grassroots farm policy leadership team to motivate our members to engage and build a comprehensive food and farm policy agenda, and in coordination with our allies in the progressive farm movement, to strategically advocate that agenda at the legislative and administrative level.
• Specific responsibilities include:
• Staffing our food and farm policy working group and facilitate ongoing involvement of our leaders and members to develop and implement our policy agenda.
• Conducting ongoing legislative research and tracking, and writing policy briefs, sign on letters and action alerts on key policy issues and regulations. Key issue areas include equity, sustainability and civil rights in agriculture and rural community development and credit access, climate resilience, farmworker justice, and just immigrant and trade.
• Developing compelling and effective advocacy messages and finding best methods for delivery.
• Regularly preparing and posting relevant analysis and updates to share with RC members, our blog, Listservs, social media and Web site.
• Enhancing the relationship of our members and RC as a whole with policy makers, by drafting Dear colleague letters, etc., and organizing meetings, briefings and congressional events.
• Continually listening to our members and translating their needs and ideas into policy and advocacy proposals and assuring their voices are heard through the legislative process and in federal rulemaking processes.
• Coordinating with our partners and allies in the progressive farm movement and representing RC and its members in legislative working groups in Washington.
• Developing and/or representing Rural Coalition within existing coalitions and working groups to partner in advocacy efforts to transform policies and practices.
• Presenting or participating in presentations that advance Rural Coalition’s advocacy and thought leadership efforts.
• Working as part of our team to connect policy and advocacy work with our work on communications, research and field activities.

Requirements: 

• The Successful Candidate will demonstrate the energy, experience and enthusiasm essential to coordinate grassroots efforts to promote economic and social justice as well as:
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills are essential.
• Demonstrated ability to monitor Congressional action, access legislation and regulations over electronic mediums and implement strategies to influence Congressional action.
• Demonstrated background and/or professional experience in the fields of agriculture, rural development, food and farm policy with emphasis on equity and justice.
• Demonstrated commitment to the principles and priorities of the Rural Coalition and cultural competence needed to work with our diverse membership.
• Demonstrated ability to work as a team member to analyze complex and diverse issue areas and pursue systemic and structural change.
• Demonstrated skill and comfort in proactively building relationships with diverse constituencies, including public officials, coalition partners, and community leaders.
• Ability to work independently in a team environment.
• Ability to work in and connect both the policy and grassroots community environments.
• Background and familiarity with agriculture and rural communities, and diverse land-based communities is preferred.
• Ability to motivate others, and work proactively, and as part of a team to build consensus and compromise.
• Strong organizational and interpersonal skills.
• Fluency in Microsoft suite and Google Suite. (Constant Contact, Donor Perfect, Square Space experience is a double plus.)
• Comfort with technologies and communication mechanisms that support remote teams, including file sharing, web-based meetings, conference calls, and emerging technologies.
• Must live in Washington DC metropolitan area.
• Valid driver’s license and willingness to travel periodically to many interesting rural communities is required.

Interested candidates should submit a cover letter, resume, writing samples, and a list of three references including their contact information to working@ruralco.org with the subject line

POLICY AND ADVOCACY COORDINATOR. Applications accepted until position is filled.

References will not be contacted until after interviews are completed. No phone calls please.

Congressional Research Service - Legislative Attorney

Washington, D.C.

Description:

• The Congressional Research Service (CRS), American Law Division (ALD), seeks a Legislative Attorney to analyze legal questions that emerge from the work of Congress related to administrative law in particular and American public law generally. This is a non-litigating position emphasizing qualifications and interest in legal research and writing in a public service legislative context.

Duties:

• The Legislative Attorney prepares objective, non-partisan analytical studies and descriptive and background memoranda and reports on legal issues of national significance; provides personal consultation and assistance to congressional committees. Members, and staff on legal issues throughout the legislative process; and participates in or leads team research projects and seminars. The incumbent is expected to develop over time the skills necessary to provide legal analysis and consultation to congressional committees. Members, and staff at increasingly sophisticated levels.
• Candidates with research experience in and broad general knowledge of legal issues regarding administrative law in particular and American public law in general; who demonstrate strong research, writing, and oral communication skills; and who possess a portfolio of high quality legal analytical writing are encouraged to apply. Experience as a judicial clerk will be beneficial.
• The position’s primary focus is the broad area of administrative law. However, given ALD’s relatively small staff and the breadth of issues ALD covers for Congress, candidates must also be capable of working in a number of different areas of the law and have the intellectual curiosity to seek out and maintain a broad portfolio of legal issues. Thus, applicants should also have knowledge of constitutional law and statutory interpretation.
• CRS works exclusively for the United States Congress, providing policy and legal analysis to committees and Members of both the House and Senate, regardless of party affiliation. As a legislative branch agency within the Library of Congress. CRS has been a valued and respected resource on Capitol Hill for more than a century.
• CRS is well known for analysis that is authoritative, confidential, objective, and nonpartisan. Its highest priority is to ensure that Congress has immediate access to the nation's best thinking on legal and public policy issues of interest to its Members and Committees.
• Prepares probing and innovative written legal analyses, arguments, briefs, or other analytical documents that relate complex variables within the attorney's specialized field of law to the development, interpretation, or implementation of important public policies.
• Provides congressional staff with consultations and oral briefings that clarify legal questions, identify and discuss legal options, and inform congressional staff of CRS informational and analytical capabilities within the scope of the attorney’s subject areas.
• Prepares authoritative descriptive and background reports, memoranda, bill digests, surveys of laws, comparisons of laws and bills, and other types of written responses for congressional committees. Members, and staff that are characterized by substantial breadth and depth and that cover all pertinent factors and relationships.
• Advises and assists other legislative attorneys, analysis, and specialists through provision of legal analysis and information in support of their service to Congress.
• Prepares and delivers oral presentations at CRS seminars and other outreach programs.
• In response to congressional inquiries, locates, organizes, summarizes, and interprets legal information and other pre-existing legal materials, on difficult or misunderstood policy issues through research, including search of the reference collections and databases of CRS, the Library, other institutions or through contacts and networking with Executive Branch officials or other professionals in the field.

Requirements: 

• Applicants must have had progressively responsible experience and training sufficient in scope and quality to furnish them with an acceptable level of the following knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the duties of the position without more than normal supervision.
• Knowledge of administrative law in particular and American public law generally**
• Ability to analyze legal issues**
• Ability to write in a legal context**
• Ability to convey legal analysis and information orally through briefings, consultations and other presentations
• Ability to work effectively in a high pressure environment
• Ability to work collaboratively with others
• Ability to exercise objectivity in all phases of analysis and consultation
• Ability to exercise judgment and discretion
• Ability to build and maintain a professional network
• Ability to communicate effectively other than in writing
• Applicants must possess an LL.B. or J.D., or higher degree from a full course of study in a school of law accredited by the American Bar Association or a state-accredited school of law and be a current, active (or equivalent) member in good standing of the bar of a state, the District of Columbia, a territory of the United States, or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. Appointees must maintain active membership in good standing of the bar throughout their employment.
• Legible copies of transcripts demonstrating that applicant is a graduate from an LL.B. or J.D., or higher degree program in a school of law accredited by the American Bar Association or a state-accredited school of law must be attached to your online application.  Unofficial transcripts are acceptable at the time of the application. Official documents will be required if selected.
• Also, a copy of bar membership demonstrating that applicant is a member in good standing of the bar of a state, the District of Columbia, a territory of the United States, or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico must be attached to your online application.
• You MUST submit a legible copy of your college/university transcripts to your online application. Unofficial transcripts are acceptable at the time of application. Official transcripts will be required if selected. Failure to submit the required legible documentation at the time of application will result in disqualification of your application.

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Union of Concerned Scientists - Managing Director Food and Environment Program

Washington, D.C.

Description:

• The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) is an independent national nonprofit organization founded 50 years ago by scientists and students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who sought to use the power of science to address global problems and improve people’s lives. Through technical analysis and effective advocacy, UCS works to develop and implement innovative, practical solutions to some of our planet’s most pressing problems—from combating global warming and developing sustainable ways to feed, power, and transport ourselves, to fighting misinformation, advancing racial equity, and reducing the threat of nuclear war.
• The Managing Director is a new position in the organization’s Food and Environment (F&E) Program.  Staffed with a team of scientists, analysts, policy experts, and organizers, the F&E Program seeks to transform our food system such that it produces a sustainable, equitable, and healthy food system for all.  This role is to ensure that the program strategy aligns with goals, and that its campaigns are executed in a manner that makes the best use of the team’s expertise and capacity.

Duties:

• The position manages the day-to-day operations of the program. This includes the development and execution of program strategy and the core components of the program’s campaign – from analytical products to outreach and advocacy and leads the team in developing work that integrates a perspective of racial and economic justice into its approaches. The position  engages in problem solving around relevant strategic questions, issues of substance, and matters of staff time prioritization and resource utilization. 
• The Managing Director reports to the Program Director, represents UCS at public events and assists Program Director with fundraising responsibilities.

Requirements: 

• Strong and demonstrated management skills at a senior level are essential, as is the ability to supervise staff, lead teams and manage  complex strategic processes, and inspire high-performing teams to achieve exceptional outcomes. Position requires solid expertise in food and/or agricultural issues in their socioeconomic, political and environmental context.  Understanding of, and commitment to, the importance of racial equity to effectively achieve program goals is essential.
• A Ph.D. degree* in any of any of agricultural, food, nutrition or public health science or policy areas is strongly preferred. At UCS, comparable training and/or experience can be substituted for degrees when appropriate.
• * LLM degree meets this requirement.

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