Description:
Purpose of Position:The role will support the entire University Lands organization in a wide variety of legal matters, including land operations, minerals, leasing, royalties, surface, emerging energy, regulatory, state purchasing, environmental, sustainability, and renewables.
Essential Functions:
- Understanding and knowledge of the oil and gas industry and land management practices and ability to use knowledge to provide legal support on a broad range of activities, such as mineral leasing, surface leasing, royalties, renewable and emerging energy, oil and gas production, ranching, environmental, and sustainability.
- Provide legal advice and analysis on a wide range of agreements and transactions, including oil and gas agreements, emerging energy agreements, continuous development agreements, royalty disputes, state purchasing agreements, and surface operations agreements.
- Perform legal research and investigation and report findings and conclusions.
- Independent responsibility in dealing with internal UT System, government relations, commercial counterparties, operators, and many other parties, both internal and external.
- Responsible for managing legal projects and matters independently, with oversight from the VP, Legal.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Complexity level and autonomy in work differs for Attorney vs. Senior Attorney.
Tasks:
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Behavioral Competencies:
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Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
- Ability to prioritize and balance a large number of matters.
- Must have excellent speaking and writing skills as well as exceptional executive, analytical, and communication abilities.
- High degree of professionalism.
- Ability to communicate effectively with internal and external parties.
- Ability to work with various stakeholders, both internal and external to the organization.
- Ability to manage and adhere to deadlines, with strong attention to detail, higher level thinking skills, strong professional judgment and interpersonal skills, and a positive and enthusiastic disposition.
Required Qualifications:
- Attorney - Juris Doctorate from an accredited law school and a license to practice law in Texas.
- Eight (8) years of experience at a law firm or combination of experience at a law firm and in-house at an energy company or land management company.
Senior Attorney - Juris Doctorate from an accredited law school and a license to practice law in Texas.
Eight (8) years of experience at a law firm or combination of experience at a law firm and in-house at an energy company or land management company.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Prior land experience
- Experience in government procurement agreements
- Three years or more drafting contracts and complex agreements
- Board Certification in Oil, Gas and Mineral law
- Prior government and/or in-house experience
Working Conditions:
- May work around standard office conditions.
- Requires occasional evening or weekend hours
Additional Information:
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