Welcome to Terra.talk, the official podcast of international climate school Terra.do. Kids in the U.S. are suing their governments over their constitutional rights to a safe, healthy natural environment - and they've been winning. This week, Shannon and Jae chat with one of the litigators responsible for these victories (and Terra.do alum), Avi Lipman.
Our Children’s Trust (OCT) is a non-profit public interest law firm that provides strategic, campaign-based legal services to youth from diverse backgrounds to secure their legal rights to a safe climate. Avi joined OCT in 2024 to manage its litigation practice. He supervises senior staff attorneys, paralegals, and legal assistants. Among other things, Avi oversees OCT's robust year-round law clerk program and post-graduate fellowships.
Before joining OCT, Avi practiced complex civil litigation for 16 years at McNaul Ebel Nawrot & Helgren PLLC in Seattle, where he became a partner in 2014. He represented plaintiffs and defendants in trial and appellate litigation, appearing regularly as first-chair counsel in jury trials, arbitrations, and mediations. He was previously a teaching fellow at the Georgetown University Law Center; a criminal defense attorney with The Defender Association in Seattle; pro bono counsel investigating mistreatment of incarcerated youth in New Orleans; and a public school teacher with Teach for America in Oakland, California. Avi received his JD from New York University School of Law, LLM in Trial Advocacy from Georgetown, and BA from Oberlin College.
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Season 1 of Terra.talk drops every Tuesday from May 27 to July 8, 2025. The views expressed in this podcast are those of the hosts and guests and do not necessarily reflect those of Terra.do or its partners.
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