Job: Junior Counsel

We are hiring a junior attorney to work primarily on litigation pursued by our legal team.

Job Overview
The Niskanen Center seeks a lawyer with 3-5 years of litigation experience to join our legal team and work primarily on energy issues. The lawyer will report to Niskanen’s chief counsel.

The lawyer will work primarily on property rights issues created by the abuse of eminent domain by oil and gas pipeline companies, and potentially on public nuisance issues created by fossil fuel producers, cases challenging the Trump Administration’s immigration policies, and other interesting litigation.

Excellent legal thinking and writing are essential, and an entrepreneurial attitude will be rewarded.

Benefits
Competitive salary range, depending on qualifications and experience. Benefits include health and dental coverage, a flexible vacation policy, and professional development opportunities.

The Niskanen Center
The Niskanen Center is a nonpartisan 501(c)(3) think tank that works to promote an open society: a social order that is open to political, cultural, and social change; open to free inquiry; open to individual autonomy; open to the poor and marginalized; open to commerce and trade; open to people who may wish to come or go; open to different beliefs and cultures; open to the search for truth; and a government that protects these freedoms while advancing the cause of open societies around the world.

The Niskanen Center works to advance an open society both through active engagement in the war of ideas and direct engagement in the policymaking process. We develop policy proposals, mobilize other groups to support those proposals, promote those ideas to legislative and executive decision-makers, build short- and longer-term coalitions to facilitate joint action, initiate litigation to compel responses to defend property rights and individual rights, and marshal the most convincing arguments and information in support of our agenda.

Applying
Submit cover letter and resume to jobs@niskanencenter.org.

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