Welcome
Earthrise Law Center is the environmental legal clinic at Lewis & Clark Law School. We are a team of impassioned attorneys and staff working to achieve targeted environmental improvement while teaching the next generation of advocates to do the same.
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We are hiring a 2025 Founder’s Legacy Legal Fellow
Earthrise is looking for a smart, enthusiastic, hard-working person with a positive attitude and a desire to have a career in the public interest environmental legal field.
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Clinical Education
Preparing tomorrow’s advocates to defend our natural heritage - earthrise-our-work, environment, exclude, law
Climate
Tackling the causes and impacts of global warming
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Endangered Species
Protecting and restoring wildlife and habitat
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Join the Earthrise team as a summer clerk next summer!
Earthrise Law Center is now accepting applications from current law students who will have completed their 1L year by April 2025—or anyone who has already completed more than 32 credits of course work—for its summer 2025 clerkship program.
We are hiring a 2025 Founder’s Legacy Legal Fellow
Earthrise is looking for a smart, enthusiastic, hard-working person with a positive attitude and a desire to have a career in the public interest environmental legal field.
Review of 2024; Looking forward to 2025
In 2024, Earthrise attorneys achieved significant milestones in advancing the clinic’s dual mission: safeguarding the environment and equipping the next generation of legal advocates with hands-on experience. As Earthrise approaches its 30th anniversary, we invite you to join us in supporting this essential work in a critical time for environmental protection.
Earthrise Law Center is located in Wood Hall on the Law Campus.
MSC: 51
email earthrise@lclark.edu
voice (503) 768-6736
fax (503) 768-6642
Allison LaPlante
Earthrise Law Center
Lewis & Clark Law School
10101 S. Terwilliger Boulevard MSC 51
Portland OR 97219