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Kaplan Kirsch LLP
Denver, CO, US
Summary
Law clerks perform substantive legal work on complex, high-profile projects across various practice areas. They collaborate with colleagues across multiple offices and participate in weekly practice area meetings.
Job Description
Description
Accepting Applications through September 15, 2026
We are looking for highly motivated, creative, and collaborative law students to join our projects-oriented law firm for the Fall Semester 2026, Spring Semester 2027, or Summer 2027. Applicants currently must be in their second year of law school.
We are a fast-growing national boutique law firm devoted exclusively to helping clients solve problems involving the nation’s most complex and high-profile projects in environmental, conservation, real estate, land use, infrastructure, project financing, airports, rail, transit, tribal, and renewable energy law. While the Firm is organized into these primary practice areas, we pride ourselves on complex, collaborative work, and law clerks will regularly work with colleagues across all of our practice areas and with attorneys from all of our offices.
Founded in 2003 to provide an alternative to the “business of law as usual,” our Firm’s focus remains on our colleagues as well as our clients. We believe that when you get to work with a great team, make meaningful contributions, and pursue a fulfilling career without hindering personal life responsibilities and choices, your professional life becomes more enjoyable and gratifying. The work we do is rewarding, and we are tremendously proud of the superior services our team is able to provide to our public, non-profit, tribal, and private sector clients.
Our law clerks are key members of the Firm, engaging in various types of substantive legal work on matters across the country while gaining valuable experience, training, and insight into the legal profession. Clerks are integrated into the Firm from day one through our mentoring program and are strongly encouraged to participate in our weekly practice area meetings and other Firm events.
Requirements
Position details: Our law clerks can work at one of the Firm’s offices in Denver, San Francisco, Washington D.C., or New York. We expect our Fall and Spring Semester clerks to work 15 to 20 hours a week and our Summer clerks to work 40 hours a week. This position will be paid an hourly rate of $50.00 per hour.
The Firm is actively committed to fostering the principles of diversity, inclusion, and equal employment opportunity. We do not discriminate against applicants or employees on the basis of age, race, color, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sex, sexual orientation, sexual identity, disability, marital status, military status, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law.
Kaplan Kirsch is a national law firm with a practice focused on solving problems that involve environmental, infrastructure, land use, public lands, real estate development, and transportation law. The Firm represents local governments, individuals, corporate clients, and organizations in complex and controversial projects that are often subject to intense public scrutiny and involve the intersection of private and governmental interests. The Firm has a reputation for crafting innovative solutions to high-risk and seemingly intractable problems involving the complex interplay of varied disciplines of law.
Our attorneys have been counsel to a wide variety of public agencies across the nation, represented public interest organizations in high-profile environmental litigation, served as government counsel at the highest levels of federal and local government, and represented a wide range of clients on cutting-edge compliance issues. Our attorneys have a national reputation as handling some of the largest and most sophisticated public infrastructure projects, including Brownfields redevelopment, airports, highways, and urban transit systems.
The Firm's offices in Denver, New York, San Francisco, and Washington, DC, enable the Firm to represent clients in matters throughout the country. The breadth of the Firm's practice includes active representations in almost half the states at any one time.
Founded
2003
Company size
51-200 employees
Industry
Law Practice
Org type
Partnership
Headquarters
Denver, CO
Kaplan Kirsch is a national law firm with a practice focused on solving problems that involve environmental, infrastructure, land use, public lands, real estate development, and transportation law. The Firm represents local governments, individuals, corporate clients, and organizations in complex and controversial projects that are often subject to intense public scrutiny and involve the intersection of private and governmental interests. The Firm has a reputation for crafting innovative solutions to high-risk and seemingly intractable problems involving the complex interplay of varied disciplines of law.
Our attorneys have been counsel to a wide variety of public agencies across the nation, represented public interest organizations in high-profile environmental litigation, served as government counsel at the highest levels of federal and local government, and represented a wide range of clients on cutting-edge compliance issues. Our attorneys have a national reputation as handling some of the largest and most sophisticated public infrastructure projects, including Brownfields redevelopment, airports, highways, and urban transit systems.
The Firm's offices in Denver, New York, San Francisco, and Washington, DC, enable the Firm to represent clients in matters throughout the country. The breadth of the Firm's practice includes active representations in almost half the states at any one time.
Founded
2003
Company size
51-200 employees
Industry
Law Practice
Org type
Partnership
Headquarters
Denver, CO
