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Student Honors Law Clerk Program

Employment Opportunities

The Office of Enforcement & Compliance Assurance (OECA) manages a national criminal enforcement, forensic and training program. OECA also manages the Agency’s regulatory, site remediation, and federal facilities enforcement and compliance assurance programs.

GENERAL FACT SHEET:

The EPA Office of Enforcement & Compliance Assurance (OECA) offers qualified and highly motivated law students the opportunity to work side by side with practicing environmental lawyers and technical professionals in its Washington, D.C. headquarters office.

Students work in the office as academic (for credit) interns; under a variety of public service or academic fellowships and as unpaid law clerks or interns.

Law clerks and interns hired under the Student Career Employment Program work in one or more of the designated practice areas in OECA, including:

Law clerks and interns work under the direct supervision of a practicing attorney or technical professional in one of the 15 practice areas in the Office of Enforcement & Compliance Assurance, performing a wide variety of legal or technical research, policy analysis or writing assignments. Each student is expected to develop a written assessment of activity, documenting accomplishments, works in progress and anticipated issues. Summer internships generally run for eight to ten weeks. Students are assigned to work in one or more of the practice areas based upon a preference and skills questionnaire and the space available in each individual office. Qualified 2L and 1L students are accepted. For more information, see www.epa.gov/compliance.

The majority of the positions will be located in the EPA Ariel Rios Federal Office Building located at 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. in Washington, D.C. This building is easily accessible to the metropolitan Metro subway system, Federal Triangle Station, which included the Orange and Blue line trains. We are located a short distance from the White House, FBI Building and Smithsonian Institution museums. A Metro transit subsidy of up to $200.00 per month is available to all student interns, paid or unpaid, regardless of appointment category.

Throughout the year, we offer a series of unique, specialized training sessions weekly on a wide variety of current and emerging issues regarding environmental protection, safety and law enforcement. These seminars are 90 minutes long and offered to all law clerks and interns during the lunch hour. Examples of educational programs offered include:

How to Apply

  1. Accurate, current resumes and a short cover letter highlighting the specific knowledge, skills and interests that you have in environmental law enforcement should be sent directly to Mike Walker at: OECALawInternProgram@epa.gov. Positions are competitive! State your case clearly. Tell us what you have accomplished in college or in law-related or environmental internships.
  2. Application Deadlines for 2012:
    1. Winter-Spring - November 20, 2012
    2. Summer - February 20, 2012
    3. Fall - July 20, 2012
  3. Email applications to OECALawInternProgram@epa.gov
  4. State your name in the subject line of all email submittals.
  5. Note: Applications by mail or commercial delivery service are NOT accepted.
  6. Telephone interviews can be scheduled for out of town candidates.
  7. Questions may be directed to OECALawInternProgram@epa.gov

 

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