Counsel - 1717

Job Summary:

This role will support our senior legal staff in managing a wide range of legal matters, including contract review, compliance issues, risk management, litigation, and corporate governance.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

- Draft, review, and negotiate a wide variety of commercial contracts for upstream oil & gas production.

- Contract management including master service agreements, client contracts, supply agreements, confidentiality agreements, and subcontracts, change management, claim mitigation strategies, and contract disputes.

- Provide legal support to Operations to ensure compliance with federal, state and local regulations and company Code of Conduct.

- Support internal investigations.

- Interact with support functions and departments, ensuring involvement of Legal in all matters that may have a legal impact on the company.

- Work closely and collaboratively with our clients, which include the world's largest energy companies.

- Implement, draft and update procedures, practices, guidelines and templates.

- Participate in litigation management including assisting outside counsel.

- Provide legal support and identify and assess legal risks regarding employment matters.

- Proactively identify and manage risks to ensure business continuity and avoid business interruption.

- Performs other related duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications:

- 2-3 years of relevant legal experience.

- Extensive experience of negotiating commercial agreements, preferably in the oil & gas industry

- Exposure in the areas of litigation, ethics & compliance, employment matters preferred.

- Ability to act independently, handle multiple projects, prioritize, and meet deadlines.

- Ability to function effectively and efficiently with minimal administrative support, including typing skills and ability to work with Microsoft Office suite.

- Ability to collaborate in a team environment.

- Business acumen with a solution-oriented approach.

Education Requirements:

- Juris doctorate from a nationally recognized law school.

- Active bar membership from any of the fifty states or DC.