A pipeline permit gets challenged on a Tuesday. By Thursday, a manufacturer is asking whether its emissions reporting will survive a new EPA rule. Somewhere in between, a renewable energy developer wants due diligence done right before anyone breaks ground. That's the terrain — regulation colliding with real consequences for land, water, and air. We need a Remote Environmental Law Attorney who can work that terrain without flinching.
The Role, Straight Up
You'll represent clients in regulatory proceedings, compliance reviews, and litigation related to environmental statutes — air quality rules, water protection laws, NEPA reviews, and hazardous waste regulations. Some weeks are heavy on drafting: briefs, filings, and position papers that actually need to hold up. Other weeks put you in front of an administrative law judge, arguing a position you built yourself.
Naukri Mitra is helping source candidates for this one, and the team behind it treats environmental advocacy as the whole mission, not a side practice tacked onto something else.
What the Days Actually Look Like
Clients show up with problems that are legally messy and usually urgent — a compliance deadline closing in, a permitting fight, a due diligence question before a land deal closes. You read regulatory language that shifts under your feet and tell the client, plainly, what it means for their operations right now. You'll work alongside other legal teams on deals involving environmental due diligence, land use questions, and renewable energy projects. And you'll advise on sustainable practices before problems show up, rather than scrambling to fix them afterward.
What You'll Own
- Represent clients in regulatory proceedings, compliance matters, and environmental litigation
- Give legal analysis on national and regional environmental regulations — air and water statutes, NEPA, hazardous waste policy
- Draft and revise memoranda, briefs, regulatory filings, and position papers
- Watch evolving legislation closely and help clients adjust before it costs them
- Support transactions touching environmental due diligence, land use, and renewable energy
- Advise on sustainable business practices and regulatory risk before it becomes a crisis
- Show up for remote court hearings, ALJ proceedings, and environmental board sessions
What Gets You In the Door
You'll need a
Doctoral degree — specifically a Juris Doctor from an accredited U.S. law school.
In terms of experience, we're looking for a minimum of 3 years of practice in environmental law, whether that's at a firm, a government agency, or a nonprofit.
Active bar membership in at least one U.S. jurisdiction is non-negotiable. Beyond that, you need real command of U.S. environmental regulatory frameworks and permitting systems — not just familiarity, actual working knowledge — plus writing sharp enough to turn a dense technical issue into something a judge finds persuasive. Since this runs remote, you're managing your own docket. Nobody's checking in to make sure deadlines get hit.
Nice to Have
- Time spent working with the EPA, DOI, or state environmental bodies
- Comfort in Westlaw, Lexis+, or Bloomberg Law
- Ease with Zoom and Microsoft Teams for client work and team collaboration
- Some exposure to climate litigation, carbon credits, or ESG legal frameworks
Pay and What's Attached to It
The salary here is
$145,377 a year. On top of that:
- Full health, vision, and dental coverage
- Paid time off, plus parental leave that's actually generous
- 401(k) with company match
- CLE and bar dues covered, not reimbursed after the fact and forgotten
- Tech reimbursement for your home setup — laptop, monitors, the works
How This Team Runs
Fully remote, judged on results rather than hours logged. Document sharing and case tracking run through shared systems so nothing falls through the cracks between attorneys working across different time zones. Senior attorneys mentor directly here — it's not a program that exists on paper and never happens in practice. Continuing legal education is funded because the team actually wants you to be sharper next year than you are now.
Where It Can Go
Attorneys who do well here end up leading high-impact cases, specializing in areas such as natural resource or clean energy law, or moving into senior strategist and policy advisor roles. There's room to publish and speak at legal summits too, if that's a direction that appeals to you.
Applying
Send your resume along with a short note on an environmental matter you've worked on that you'd point to as your best example. This role is open to candidates from the USA, Canada, the UK, the European Union, Australia, India, and other eligible regions. If regulation-meets-real-stakes work sounds like where you want to spend your time, apply.
