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Michael Zoeller

Mike Zoeller is a Senior Attorney with the Conservation Law Center leading its Environmental Legal Aid Program in Hammond, Whiting, East Chicago, and Gary, Indiana....

Categories: Environmental Legal Aid Program, Fulcrum, Program
Issues: Climate Change, Environmental Justice
Services: Legal Advocacy, Legal Education, Nonprofit Support, Partnerships

Rob McCrea

Rob McCrea is the Land Conservation Attorney for Conservation Law Center. Rob grew up hiking, hunting, and camping in the hills of southern Indiana. Rob’s...

Categories: Busseron, CILTI, George Rogers Clark, ILPA, Indiana Forests to Faucets, Indiana Prescribed Fire, Joint Chiefs, Mud Creek, RCPP, Ready-Set-Fire, REPI Easement, SICIM, Southern Indiana Sentinel Landscape
Issues: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Land
Services: Legal Advocacy, Legal Education, Nonprofit Support, Partnerships

Kim Ferraro

Kim E. Ferraro is the Conservation Law Center’s Managing Attorney. Before coming to CLC, Ferraro held that same position with the Hoosier Environmental Council (HEC),...

Categories: Eagle Valley, Environmental Legal Aid Program, Fulcrum, Natural Prairie, Ogden Dunes, Stop the Rocket
Issues: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Environmental Justice, Land, Public Trust, Water
Services: Legal Advocacy, Legal Education, Nonprofit Support, Partnerships, Policy

Kacey Cook

Kacey joins the Conservation Law Center as the inaugural Constance and Terry Marbach Conservation Attorney. For Kacey, growing up in the woods and on the...

Categories: Eagle Valley, Fulcrum, ILPA, Natural Prairie, Ogden Dunes, Stop the Rocket
Issues: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Environmental Justice, Land, Public Trust, Water
Services: Legal Advocacy, Legal Education, Nonprofit Support, Partnerships

Christian Freitag

Christian Freitag joined Conservation Law Center in 2019 as its second Executive Director, replacing CLC’s founder and longtime Director W. William Weeks. For the previous...

Categories: Busseron, Clean Water Indiana, Green Macaw, ILPA, RCPP, Southern Indiana Sentinel Landscape
Issues: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Land, Water
Services: Legal Advocacy, Legal Education, Nonprofit Support, Partnerships, Policy

From class actions to classrooms: Ferraro adding teaching experience to resume as public interest attorney

Environmental law attorney Kim Ferraro might have only been half-joking when she claimed that if she had known at the start of her career what...

Categories: News
Issues: Climate Change, Environmental Justice, Land, Water
Services: Legal Advocacy, Legal Education

Long-time HEC Attorney Kim Ferraro Joining Legal Team at Conservation Law Center

Today, the Hoosier Environmental Council (HEC) wishes a warm farewell and many thanks to its long-time Senior Attorney, Kim Ferraro, who is leaving HEC after...

Categories: Press Release
Issues: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Environmental Justice, Land, Public Trust, Water
Services: Legal Advocacy, Legal Education, Nonprofit Support, Partnerships, Policy

Intern Update: Lucy Newell

Hi! My name is Lucy Newell, and I am a senior at Indiana University studying Law and Public Policy at the O’Neill School of...

Categories: Blog
Services: Legal Education

Conservation Law Center announces The Duke Energy “Grass Roots” Conservation Fellowship

Conservation Law Center is excited to announce a $10,000 grant from the Duke Energy Foundation to establish a new student fellowship program. The Duke Energy...

Categories: Blog
Issues: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Environmental Justice, Land, Water
Services: Legal Education

Conservation Law Clinic: Building a better planet

Pollution, deforestation, extinction of endangered species, and extreme weather events are taking their toll on today’s world. A nonprofit organization in Bloomington, Indiana is doing...

Categories: News
Issues: Biodiversity, Land, Water
Services: Legal Education

Conservation Law Center Clinic at the IU Maurer School of Law

Each school year, second- and third-year law students at the IU Maurer School of Law have the opportunity to enroll for credit as interns in...

Categories: Blog
Issues: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Environmental Justice, Land, Public Trust, Water
Services: Legal Education

Indiana Environmental Law and Climate Change Adaptation

Climate change is already causing changes now, right here in the state of Indiana. This year’s spring was one of the five wettest in the...

Categories: Blog
Issues: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Water
Services: Legal Education

Center Intern Researching IN’s Preparedness for Climate Change

This summer, Conservation Law Center is fortunate to have the help of Thalia Hobson, a summer research intern from Maurer Law School. Her...

Categories: Blog
Issues: Climate Change
Services: Legal Education

We’ve Got Quite the Team!

This month we're celebrating our Graduate Fellow Attorneys and their accomplishments. We hired two new Fellows this fall and are sending off our third this...

Categories: Blog
Services: Legal Education

Former Fellow Spotlight: Peter Murrey

I worked as a Graduate Fellow at the Conservation Law Center for two years directly after law school. During that time, I gained a wide...

Categories: Blog
Services: Legal Education

Former Graduate Fellow Attorney began working for Earthjustice

Graduate Fellow Attorney Alexis Andiman began working for Earthjustice United, a nonprofit environmental law firm, in February. We take this opportunity to share gratitude for...

Categories: Blog
Services: Legal Education

CLC Welcomed Two Graduate Fellow Attorneys Fall of 2014

Peter Murrey is a 2014 cum laude graduate of Indiana University Maurer School of Law....

Categories: Blog
Services: Legal Education

New Clinic Office Opened in Indianapolis

This fall the Conservation Law Center opened its second Clinic office, located at the Robert H. McKinney School of Law in Indianapolis....

Categories: Blog
Services: Legal Education

Animal Migration Seminar

CLC attorneys and Clinic interns are participating in the second semester of a year-long series of interdisciplinary seminars on protecting animal migrations, an effort initiated...

Categories: Blog
Issues: Biodiversity, Climate Change
Services: Legal Education

Ballast Water Treatment Regulations

CLC attorneys and Clinic interns advised long-standing client, Great Lakes United, and four other conservation groups in preparing comments on the U.S. Coast Guard's ballast...

Categories: Blog
Issues: Biodiversity, Water
Services: Legal Education, Policy

The Legal Challenge of Protecting Animal Migrations as Phenomena of Abundance

The CLC attorneys and Clinic interns will be participating in the second semester of a year-long series of interdisciplinary seminars on protecting animal migrations, an...

Categories: Publication
Issues: Biodiversity
Services: Legal Education, Policy

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