Litigation Paralegal, Alaska Regional Office

Earthjustice is now accepting applications for a full-time Litigation Paralegal to join the Alaska regional office, based in Juneau or Anchorage, Alaska. The successful applicant will provide both substantive and administrative support to our team of attorneys, who litigate in federal and state courts and conduct administrative advocacy to defend the rights of all people to a healthy environment and to speed our transition away from fossil fuels to clean and renewable energy.

Earthjustice is the premier nonprofit environmental law organization. We take on the biggest, most precedent-setting cases across the country. We wield the power of law and the strength of partnership to protect people’s health; to preserve magnificent places and wildlife; to advance clean energy; and to combat climate change. We partner with thousands of groups and supporters to engage the critical environmental issues of our time, and bring about positive change. We are here because the earth needs a good lawyer.

Founded in 1971, Earthjustice has a distinguished track record of achieving significant, lasting environmental protections. We achieve this by hiring people who share a passion for justice and a healthy environment. Our headquarters are in San Francisco with offices in Anchorage, Juneau, Los Angeles, Miami, Tallahassee, Honolulu, Houston, New York, Philadelphia, Denver, Seattle, Bozeman, Chicago, and Washington, D.C.

Earthjustice’s Alaska Office, in coordination with our clients and allies, defends Alaska’s lands and waters from fossil fuel development; opposes efforts to log and build roads in Alaska’s old-growth forests; opposes destructive mining across Alaska and in Alaska-British Columbia transboundary watersheds; and works to protect sustainable fisheries for all Alaskans.

In this work, the office represents a diverse mix of organizations and allies, including conservation groups, community organizations, and many Alaska Native Tribes who have, for millennia, relied on Alaska’s lands and waters for their way of life. For more information about the Alaska regional office, please visit https://earthjustice.org/office/alaska/.

The Paralegal may work from either our Juneau or Anchorage office. Currently, the Alaska Regional team is expected to work in the office two days a week.

Responsibilities

Litigation Paralegals on the Alaska Regional team provide administrative and litigation support services for more than a dozen active attorneys practicing in federal courts and administrative venues. Workload constitutes about 75% paralegal duties and approximately 25% administrative duties. Tasks may include but are not limited to the following:

• Providing general administrative support as needed for the office, including back-up support for Legal Practice Manager. This position requires regular collaboration with the Legal Practice Manager to complete administrative duties as assigned.
• Answering phones, handling incoming and outgoing mail/FedEx, greeting visitors, ensuring adequate office and mailing supplies. Responding to and screening cold calls/emails requesting information or representation.
• Assisting as needed with scheduling and coordination of meetings, conference room and video-conferencing equipment, planning and arranging of office events, and making travel arrangements.
• Preparing and editing documents for filing, including: proofreading, cite-checking, Bluebooking, formatting, producing tables of contents and authorities, assembling exhibits, etc.
• Ensuring timely and correct filing and service of documents.
• Ensuring that filed documents comply with all relevant rules.
• Creating, organizing, and maintaining digital and physical case files.
• Computing and calendaring court deadlines.
• Assisting in the collection, processing, and review of incoming discovery productions, such as administrative records, including use of an eDiscovery software platform.
• Communicating with courts, clients, experts, opposing counsel, or other external parties.
• Tracking relevant dockets and issues related to the work of the Alaska office practices via the Federal Register, agency web sites, various distribution lists, media outlets, etc.
• Participating in conference calls and meetings when relevant to the position and/or assigned projects.
• General case-related administrative assistance (photocopying, correspondence, scheduling meetings, taking meeting minutes, tracking case updates).
• Providing assistance in case development such as coordination of standing work, including working with clients to identify and screen potential declarants; conducting interviews; drafting and editing declarations; communicating with clients regarding standing.
• Performing legal research and analysis; writing associated research note