Climate change and its consequences suffus e nearly all areas of law\, but for law students who want to focus intentio nally on climate\, selecting a career path in an ever-shifting social\, tec hnological\, and judicial environment can be daunting. Join Wasserstein Fel low Matt Littleton ’10\, an attorney at Envolve Law\, for a discussion of h is career as a government and private public-interest litigator specializin g in federal and state climate policy. Matt will discuss ways (some obvious \, others not) that litigating and non-litigating attorneys are tackling on e of the most pressing and vexing problems of our time\, and offer thoughts on where the field may be heading.
Lunch provided. Please RSVP below ! Open to the HLS community.
If you or an event participant requires disability-related accommodations\, please contact HLS Accessibility Servic es at accessibility@law.harv ard.edu two weeks in advance of the event.
Matt Littleton (he/him ) is co-founder and principal of Envolve Law\, a small firm that consults f or and litigates on behalf of clients advancing the clean-energy transition in a just and responsible manner. In the Biden Administration\, Matt was a Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Department of Justice\, supervisi ng all the Environment and Natural Resources Division’s litigation in the c ourts of appeals\, the enforcement of Section 404 of the Clean Water Act\, and the defense of federal actions under pollution-control statutes. Matt s tarted his legal career as a staff attorney in the Division’s Appellate Sec tion. Between his stints at Justice\, Matt was a partner at another firm—no w known as Donahue\, Goldberg & Herzog—where he litigated environmental and other public-law cases for NGOs and municipalities. Matt clerked on the Fe deral Circuit after graduating in 2010 with a joint degree from HLS and HKS . During law school\, he worked at the Office of Energy and Climate Change in the Obama White House. Matt holds a chemistry degree and taught English and other subjects in Central America and North Carolina before law school.
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