Environmental Law Section

The Environmental Law Section serves the Bar Association and the greater Cleveland community in the area of environmental law. We host two seminars each year: a day-long seminar in the fall and a half-day seminar in the late winter or early spring. We hold luncheon meetings every other month, most of which include a speaker on a topic of interest to environmental practitioners, usually approved for 1.0 hour of CLE credit. In all of our events we reach out not only to attorneys but also to environmental consultants, to government personnel, and to our clients and potential clients.

Perhaps most important, though, we host an annual fundraiser (usually after our full-day seminar) that allows the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Foundation to support law students working in unpaid summer internships for a government agency involved in environmental issues. So far, we have helped students who worked with the City of Cleveland Health Department and the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency.  Please click here for more details on the Internship Program and how attorneys and firms can support our efforts.

 

Emily Huggins-Jones		Devin Barry		Božana Lazić Lundberg
Chair Thompson Hine		Vice-Chair Thompson Hine		Secretary/Treasurer Roetzel & Andress

 

 

Since 1994, members and friends of the Environmental Section of the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association (Section) have provided assistance to law school students working in the public or non-profit sectors in unpaid summer jobs. Well before the current downturn in the economy, many desirable summer jobs in environmental law with government agencies or environmental organizations required a student to work without pay.

The Environmental Section, through the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Foundation (Foundation), has raised money to provide support for law students who are either from the Cleveland area or are attending Cleveland-area law schools so that they can take these unpaid summer jobs. With fewer and fewer paid summer job opportunities due to the recession, such support becomes a critical piece in a law student’s resume, provides networking opportunities in the student’s field of interest and gives the law student the type of real world experience that impresses future full-time employers.

In the summer of 2010, the Foundation awarded $ 3,000 each to two students. This year, with no major job recovery in sight, the Environmental Section would like to raise $ 10,000 to support three interns in the summer of 2011. The Section hopes that its members will continue their support of this effort by making individual and law firm contributions and by participating in fundraising events throughout the year. 

We look forward to your active involvement in this worthwhile endeavor.

• For more information on donating to the Internship Fund, please click here.


• To suggest an internship opportunity, please contact Maureen Brennan, Internship Committee Chair, or Michael McMahon, Internship Committee Vice-Chair.


• For the 2011 Environmental Internship application form, please click here.

Previous interns include:

Keira Lally
Scott Zaret
Elise Rindfleisch
Christine Lederer
Christy Rideout
Meagan DeJohn

If you are aware of any recipient not listed above, please contact the CMBA at 216-696-3525 or click here to email.

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