Environmental justice and aspiring lawyers
Our legal team fights environmental injustice – stopping damaging developments and raising awareness of their impacts on climate change and nature loss.
It's rolled back injunctions that prevent fracking protests, helped stop coal mines and successfully challenged unlawful government cuts to the UK solar industry. To name a few.
Our legal interns play a big role in our successes while gaining the experience they need to kickstart their careers.
But not everyone can afford to volunteer.
We've created a fund that pays our legal interns a London living wage. The Phil Michaels Legal Interns Scholarship Fund supports talented people from less-advantaged backgrounds.
We can't keep the fund going without your support. Please contribute to help aspiring environmental lawyers reach their potential and protect all our futures.
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Phil Michaels
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About the fund
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Funding internships
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