The Energy, Environmental and Natural Resources Law Clinic (EENR Clinic) works directly with the Wyoming Attorney General’s Office. Students work with attorneys from the Water and Natural Resources Division of the Wyoming Attorney General’s Office on cases involving the State of Wyoming, state agencies, or state officials. Work in the past has included drafting motions in nationally significant natural resource federal court cases, assisting in agency adjudicative and administrative hearings, and more.

Mission Statement

Through the EENR Clinic, the University of Wyoming College of Law and the Wyoming Attorney General’s Office will collaborate to provide third year law students with classroom instruction, simulated experiential learning exercises, and supervised legal practice experience to prepare them to practice law in the public or private sector in the areas of energy, environmental, and natural resources law. 

Goals

The EENR Clinic’s goals are to provide:

• • A classroom and work environment that encourages students to transition from an academic performance mentality (where a high letter grade provides an incentive to perform quality work) to a professional practice mentality (where the desire to provide ethical and professional legal representation to the client provides the incentive to perform high quality work).

• • A classroom and work environment that encourages students to develop professional responsibility and professional accountability in the practice of law.

• • A classroom and work environment that encourages students to develop self-directed learning skills and problem-solving skills relevant to the practice of law.

• • A classroom and work environment that will encourage students to develop lawyering skills, communication skills, and time management skills relevant to the practice of law.

• • Students with a basic understanding of how to litigate an administrative record review case in federal court.

• • Students with a basic understanding of Wyoming regulatory law in the subject areas of environmental law, oil and gas law, water law, and wildlife law.

Motto

Learn by doing. Don’t just know, understand. Never stop learning.

 

EENR Clinic students Kate Gamble, Kathleen Cook, and Scarlett Forrest meet with Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon after representing the state in hearings before the Wyoming Oil & Gas Conservation Commission in Casper. This and related opportunities are made possible by the Wyoming Attorney General's Office, which supports the clinic.