Navigating and Growing a Legal Career in Environmental Law (1/6/26)

Navigating and Growing a Legal Career in Environmental Law

This is a hybrid event with an in-person and a webinar option. Please select the appropriate button when registering if you plan to attend in-person. Event will take place at the Chicago Bar Association, 321 S. Plymouth Court, Chicago, IL 60604. 

Join the CBA Environmental Law Committee and ISBA Environmental and Natural Resources Law Section for a joint seminar on environmental law careers. This seminar is designed to assist young lawyers and those seeking to transfer into environmental practice by exhibiting the diverse areas of practice and roles those practitioners have available to them. 

Agenda:

10:30-11:45 AM Panel 1: Other Areas of Work 
Speaker TBA, Earthjustice 
Mitchell D. Torrence, Clausen Miller P.C. 

11:40 AM-12:30 PM Break and Networking

12:30-1:45 PM Panel 2: Regulation and Compliance 
Stephen J. Sylvester, Environmental Bureau, ILAG 
Andrew Armstrong, Chief Legal Counsel, IEPA 
Robert Kaplan, Regional Counsel, USEPA
Jennifer A. Van Wie, Board Member, IPCB 

1:45-2:00 PM Break
 
2:00-3:15 PM Panel 3: Litigation 
Tim B. Briscoe, Thompson Coburn LLP
Daniel R. Flynn, DiCello Levitt
Robert S. Libman, Miner Barnhill & Galland, P.C.

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Live CBA Committee meetings and seminars will take place via Zoom webinar.  You will click on "view video" and be directly connected to the meeting/seminar on Zoom.  (You will not receive a Zoom link.)

You MUST have Zoom Desktop Client on your Mac or PC to view a live program. If using a mobile device, you must have the Zoom App (available in the App Store or Google Play).

System requirements for Mac & PC can be found here. System requirements for mobile devices can be here.  

Please note that audience members do not need video or audio access.  Audience members are able to submit questions via the chat or Q & A features of Zoom. 

Chat: Open in-meeting chat, allowing you to send chat messages to and send a message to the host, panelists, and attendees (if permitted). Question & Answer: Open the Q&A window, allowing you to ask questions to the host and panelists. They can either reply back to you via text in the Q&A window or answer your question live.