Environmental & Real Estate Associate

TruelineBoston, Massachussets, United StatesOnsite

Trueline is seeking an Environmental & Real Estate Associate to join their Boston team. This role offers high exposure to complex environmental permitting, land use strategy, and real estate deals, while working in a tight-knit practice that delivers boutique-style development within a large-firm platform.

What You’ll Do as the Environmental & Real Estate Associate:

Provide strategic counsel on Massachusetts environmental law, including permitting, land use/zoning, environmental risk & liability in real estate and business transactions
Advise clients (including developers, industrial/manufacturing foes, utilities, and energy providers) through regulatory compliance, agency enforcement, CERCLA, RCRA, and other state/federal environmental matters
Support or lead real estate transactions—acquisitions, dispositions, leases, development and construction agreements—and collaborate with a small team to deliver high-touch service
Work directly with clients and a lean group structure (typically partner plus 2–3 associates), gaining early, meaningful responsibility and client-facing experience

Must Haves as the Environmental & Real Estate Associate:

Juris Doctor and admission to the Massachusetts Bar
Minimum 5 years of experience in environmental and real estate law, with strong knowledge of MA permitting, land use, regulatory frameworks
Proven track record handling RCRA, CERCLA, enforcement actions or permitting processes
Real estate transactional experience (e.g. development, leasing, acquisitions/dispositions)

Nice to Haves as the Environmental & Real Estate Associate:

Familiarity with construction law or experience in development agreements
Experience representing clients in complex industries (life sciences, tech, infrastructure)
Prior work at AM Law 200 or larger firms, with deal-sheet or writing sample as applicable
Interest in long?term growth leading toward partnership (eligibility typically after 7th year; mix of income and equity tracks)

This Role Offers:

Boutique-style mentorship and professional development within a respected global litigation/transactional platform
Significant client contact and senior-level responsibility even for mid?level associates
Clear, realistic partnership path with supportive leadership and feedback (partner responsiveness encouraged post?portal submission)
Deep value on collaboration, inclusive culture aligned with managing complex legal challenges across real estate, environmental, life sciences, technology, and crisis management

Life at Trueline

Who are we? As an independent, full-service marketing and consulting business based in Portland, Maine, we provide strategy, content and design for businesses, nonprofits and individuals in Maine and throughout the world. What do we do? Everything we do revolves around ROI–improving your bottom line. Through a rock-solid communication and branding strategy, we show you how to support and engage your employees, build your workforce, find new clients and support existing business. Here’s a snapshot of our services: Strategy: Branding and rebranding; mission statement; search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine results page (SERP); hiring and retention; fundraising; communicating with board members; personal branding (for executives); events and PR; advertising campaigns; product launches; social media campaigns and management. Design: Websites; logos; promotional material (digital and print); event guides; employee photos; drone video footage; custom magazines; advertisements. Content: Website text; speeches and keynotes; promotional text; employee bios; custom articles; social media posts; newsletters and internal emails; corporate reports. Custom Publishing: Vanguard, Equity, Toggle, Blueprint, Vision, Terra Firma What’s our mission? We want to help you solve real challenges–like growing your business, hiring and retaining employees, fundraising and keeping existing business. Our mission is to do this with honesty and integrity. Authenticity–it’s a good look on you. Why do we do this? We want to reimagine marketing. We want it to be less about the perfect image, and more about using good communication and branding as a way to engage with your employees and clients in successful and lasting relationships. Ultimately, we believe this approach will create a world where people come before profit, where the environment is respected and given back to, and where good business is synonymous with the best intentions.