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Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation
5705 Grant Creek Road
Supervising Attorney: Grant
Parker
Faculty Supervisor:
Dean Irma Russell
406.243.4311
irma.russell@umontana.edu
Academic Year – Maximum of 2 students
Summer – Maximum of 1 student
Satisfies Environmental and Natural Resource Law
Certificate Requirement
Prerequisite: Introduction to Environmental Law, effective Fall 2012
The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation Law Clinic provides students with the opportunity to apply the skills they develop in class to real-life situations encountered by this Missoula-based international conservation organization. There are opportunities to participate in many aspects of non-profit corporate law, which include areas such as: employment law, real estate law, conservation easement issues, charitable contributions, planned giving and tax issues, individual state gaming compliance and tax issues, trademark law, copyright law, water law, and various types of contracts (sales, personal service, consultants, etc.). Interns are asked to provide the organization with assistance in the following areas: document preparation, legal and factual research, correspondence and pleadings, legal analysis and problem resolution, work product deadline control methods, and timely completion of assignments. The RMEF Law Clinic will enable students to apply these skills while working with in-house counsel in a supportive, non-confrontational setting.
The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation is a non-profit, conservation organization whose mission is to converse and protect habitat for elk and other wildlife. RMEF has a membership of over 175,000 and approximately 500 chapters in the United States. Since its inception in 1984 in Troy, Montana, the Elk Foundation has generated millions of dollars for habitat conservation, and has conserved or enhanced over 5.9 million acres, including over 973,000 acres of land acquisitions and conservation easements. The Elk Foundation has funded more than 7,000 conservation projects in 49 States and 8 Canadian Provinces.
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