Environmental attorney vs staff attorney

Differences between environmental attorney and staff attorney duties and responsibilities

Environmental attorney example responsibilities.

• Participate in team preparing for ongoing large-scale environmental litigation.
• Focuse primarily on air compliance and permitting, environmental litigation, cost recovery liability, and remediation negotiation and compliance.
• Practice areas include CAA, CERCLA, CWA, EPCRA, RCRA, TSCA, and OSHA.
• Oversee the development of EHS compliance audit protocols for clients such as paint coating operations, salvage yards, and POTWs.
• Represent individual and institutional clients in all aspects of commercial and residential real estate acquisition, financing and leasing and foreclosure.
• Represent individual and institutional clients in all aspects of commercial and residential real estate acquisition, financing and leasing and foreclosure.

Staff attorney example responsibilities.

• Generate an internal memorandum exploring VAWA and special immigrant juvenile cases that lead to the establishment of a new clinic program.
• Provide statewide training for attorneys and advocates on education law and also responsible for major impact education litigation and appeals.
• Create and conduct workshops on e-discovery, privilege, FMLA, ADA, and FLSA
• Conduct internal FLSA (wage and hour) compliance and re-classification audits for pre-complaint resolution.
• General practice attorney handling primarily bankruptcy, domestic relations and criminal cases, preparation of wills and trusts and probate.
• Draft wills, powers of attorney, probate estate administration filings, divorce filings, caregiver contracts, and property deeds.
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