The Role
Provide legal research, strategy and interventions using energy, environmental, corporate and financial law to drive climate ambition and accelerate Japan's energy transition. Contribute to advocacy, regulatory engagement, and legal capacity building as part of ClientEarth's Tokyo team.
Summary Generated by Built In
This is a unique opportunity for an energy, environmental, corporate, financial and / or litigation Japan-qualified lawyer (bengoshi) with interest in energy and / or environmental law, policy and regulation to make a key contribution to the work of ClientEarth in Japan. The Lawyer will be a team member in ClientEarth’s Tokyo office and will participate in using the law creatively and effectively to protect people and the planet.
IMPORTANT NOTE TO CANDIDATES: We are working with the Recruitment Agency Major, Lindsey & Africa (MLS) to recruit for this role. MLS will be handling all candidate communications. When you click on the "Apply" button on this page you will be taken to a page on the MLS website where you can register your interest in the position.
IMPORTANT NOTE TO CANDIDATES: We are working with the Recruitment Agency Major, Lindsey & Africa (MLS) to recruit for this role. MLS will be handling all candidate communications. When you click on the "Apply" button on this page you will be taken to a page on the MLS website where you can register your interest in the position.
Key Responsibilities
- Conduct and oversee research and analysis, identify opportunities, and help shape and deliver our strategy to increase climate ambition and accelerate the energy transition.
- Participate in shaping and delivering strategy for using energy, environmental, corporate and financial law, policy and regulation in engagement, advocacy and legal interventions to drive climate ambition and action and accelerate the energy transition in Japan
- Participate in legal capacity building on energy and environmental law, policy and regulation
Skills, Knowledge & Expertise
- Experience: Experience working in a law firm, in-house department and/or government or regulator in Japan.
- Language skills: Fluent level in Japanese and conversational English.
- Qualification: Member of a Japan bar preferred (qualified as a Bengoshi), but may consider foreign admission if applicable skillset.
About
We are a non-profit using the power of the law to bring about end-to-end systemic change: informing, implementing and enforcing the law, drafting and advising decision-makers on policy, building legal expertise, and ensuring citizens’ access to the laws that defend them.We take governments to court – and win. We force polluting industries to shut down. We protect irreplaceable forests and vulnerable species. We empower people and NGOs with the legal rights to bring forward environmental battles of their own. Using the law means that we create real, long-lasting and embedded change.We’re working to secure a lasting civilisation in which people and nature thrive together. We work in partnership across borders, systems and sectors, ingeniously using the law to protect life on Earth.
Skills Required
- Experience working in a law firm, in-house legal department, government or regulator in Japan
- Fluent Japanese
- Conversational English
- Experience in energy and/or environmental law, policy and regulation
- Member of the Japan bar (Bengoshi)
- Experience in corporate, financial and/or litigation matters relevant to energy/environment
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The Company
What We Do
ClientEarth is an environmental charity and organisation of activist lawyers dedicated to protecting life on Earth. They use the power of the law to create systemic change, addressing pressing environmental challenges by informing, implementing, and enforcing the law.
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