Attorney Opening
Midlevel Environmental & Natural Resources Associate
Miller Nash seeks a midlevel environmental law attorney to join its team in either Seattle, WA, Portland, OR, or Long Beach, CA. Our firm has a strong commitment to providing comprehensive legal solutions to our clients. We pride ourselves on our expertise, integrity, teamwork, and dedication to achieving successful outcomes.
We are seeking a motivated associate with two to five years of experience with environmental and natural resource issues including statutes, regulations, and common law issues related to soil and groundwater contamination, water quality, air quality, and/or climate change to join our dynamic team and support our Environmental and Natural Resources practice team. The successful candidate will participate in environmental investigations and litigation matters, advise on compliance and land use issues, and provide regulatory representation, particularly focusing on contaminated properties, due diligence for transactions, and related areas.
Responsibilities:
- Conducting legal research and analysis.
- Conducting preliminary case investigations and evaluations.
- Participating in environmental litigation matters, including drafting pleadings, discovery, and motions.
- Providing guidance on compliance issues and regulatory requirements.
- Conducting due diligence for real estate transactions.
- Providing support to senior attorneys on various legal matters.
Please identify the office you are applying to in your materials. Membership in the respective state bar is required. California State Bar license is a plus if applying to Seattle or Portland.
To apply, please upload your cover letter, resume, writing sample, and law school transcript (unofficial is acceptable) here.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
Compensation:
- Annual Compensation Range:
- Associate level based on years of experience: Compensation range from $145,000–$222,500 (before potential discretionary bonus)
Benefits:
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Who We Are
Miller Nash is an established firm with both strong traditions and modern sensibilities. Although our roots in the Pacific Northwest go back more than a century, we are creative thinkers committed to serving our clients, our community, and each other in smart and innovative ways. Our attorneys and staff enjoy collaborating with one another, and it shows. Candidates and new members of our team often tell us that they are most impressed by the genuine collegiality and caring at our firm.
The clients we serve are a diverse group of businesses, non-profits, public entities, and individuals. We have organized our firm around the industries of our clients and invest our time to understand our clients’ businesses so we can better meet their needs. Our firm vision centers around delivering great client service, driven by our passion for devoting ourselves to our clients’ legal needs as if they were our own.
Community involvement is a way of life at Miller Nash, as is our deep commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. This involvement extends beyond our own offices to the clients we serve and to the communities where we live and work. As part of our commitment, we have developed a women and minority business enterprise program that affords all attorneys the ability to attract and represent, at a reduced fee, small and emerging women and minority business enterprises.
Miller Nash is also proud to participate in Diversity Lab’s Mansfield Rule Certification program which measures whether law firms have affirmatively considered at least 30 percent women, attorneys of color, LGBTQ+, and attorneys with disabilities for, among other things, senior lateral positions. In 2023, we successfully completed Diversity Lab’s Mansfield 6.0 program and achieved Mansfield Certification Plus status. We continue to support and promote diversity within our firm and will continue to participate in Mansfield 2023-2024.