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Environmental law is the collection of laws, regulations, agreements and common law that governs how humans interact with their environment.
When acting for corporate clients, environmental lawyers give advice on the possible environmental consequences of pursuing particular corporate activities. These results could include health and safety implications or increased pollution and carbon emissions for example.
Litigation cases can be very high profile, involve enormous sums of money and may have devastating ramifications for a client, as cases may be pursued through both the criminal and civil courts.
Working for the government sees lawyers advising and drafting legislation and litigation. Whilst working with local government sees lawyers acting for a particular client in an advisory, regulator and litigious capacity.
Those who work for the Environmental Agency in the regulatory field, are responsible for drafting legislation, regulation and prosecution.
This complex, fast-changing area of the law requires excellent academic results and a genuine interest in the area in order to keep up with the demands of the legislation. Due to this practice area being relatively new, legal precedent may be lacking so lawyers need to be comfortable making their own judgement calls.
A background in science or data analysis could be beneficial as there is large amounts of complex information to deal with. In order to properly tailor advice, a high degree of pragmatism and commercial awareness is required to understand a client’s business.
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