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National Law Journal

Veterans of Past EPA Battles Eye Trump's Climate Moves

With climate change poised to fall off of the Environmental Protection Agency's agenda under President Donald Trump, one group is paying particularly close attention: the lawyers who fought over putting climate on the agency's agenda in the first place.
5 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Trust a Roadblock for Ex-Energy Attorneys Seeking to Switch Sides

The chances of success are narrow for lawyers who seek to switch from representing corporate energy clients to pursuing environmental and climate change advocacy. "There are a lot of trust issues that arise," said Lucy Deakins, a partner in Denver's Dunsing & Deakins, and former associate for Fulbright & Jaworski (now, Norton Rose Fulbright) who has failed to make such a transition, despite repeated attempts to do so. Some lawyers, including Michael Freeman, a staff attorney at EarthJustice and Nada Culver, senior counsel for The Wilderness Society, have overcome hurdles and won environmental advocacy jobs, despite having toiled for years in the corporate world. But they succeeded at that switch only after years of trying.
33 minute read

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