Job Description
OIL AND GAS ATTORNEY POSITION
Holliday Energy Law Group is looking for candidates to join our growing team, primarily to assist in preparation of Oil and Gas Title Opinions. Candidates must be admitted to practice law in at least one of the following states: Texas, Oklahoma, North Dakota, New Mexico, Wyoming, or Ohio.
ALSO: We are actively seeking to expand our energy focused regulatory, deal-side/transactional, and litigation capabilities. If this matches your skillsets, let's talk.
While experience is not required, ideal candidates will have 2-5 years of direct experience either as an associate attorney or in-house with an exploration and production company. Compensation and benefits are competitive with your level of experience. All inquiries are confidential.
Attorney candidates must be licensed and in good standing to qualify for this position. We are not able to consider candidates who are pending admission or awaiting test results.
Our goal is to recruit A players to join our team. If you are an A player, we want to hear from you. Details about the position and our firm can be found below. Please submit a resume and cover letter.
San Antonio preferred, but not required.
Who We Are
Our Core Purpose: To create massive, outsized value.
What does it mean?
Value is defined as, “the importance, worth, or usefulness of something.” At the Holliday Energy Law Group, we strive to create massive, outsized value in everything we do, including in ways that make us indispensable to our clients, partners and team members.
How do we express it?
We deliver more than just legal advice. Most people think of us as a law firm that advises clients on oil and gas title, regulatory, and operational issues, but what we really do is….
- We advance careers for the people (clients) at the companies we work with. We do this by consistently placing their projects in a position to succeed.
- We create competitive advantage for the companies we work with. We do this primarily by identifying and mitigating legal risk with practical solutions so that the client can focus on creating value.
Our value as a firm is directly proportional to the value we create for others. We seek to create massive outsized value.
Our Core Values
- The Obstacle is the Way– Obstacles or challenges do not block the path forward; they are the path forward. Face them objectively and seize the opportunity they present.
- Be Smart– Seek the emotional intelligence to understand the dynamics of yourself, the people around you, and how the things you say and do will impact them.
- Take Ownership– Each team member “owns” everything in their world - the problem and the solution. No excuses. No blame. All responsibility for success or failure ultimately rests on your shoulders.
- A Duty to Serve– As successful professionals, we have a duty to give back to the communities – professional and personal – that have allowed us to thrive.
- Cover and Move– Teamwork. Always seek to understand your role in the process, who you support, who supports you, and how you can more effectively leverage those networks to create better outcomes.
- High Motor– We consistently do what it takes to make it happen.
Who You Are
You are someone who…
- Identifies with the firm’s core values.
- Is excited about the oil and gas industry.
- Thrives in a collaborative team-based environment, while enjoying the opportunity to work independently on your portion of the project
- Loves the cerebral aspect of solving a problem or a puzzle.
- Enjoys the reading and writing aspects of law.
- Is motivated by opportunities to help others.
- Places a high value on accurate and precise work product.
- Focuses on how you can resolve or prevent a problem you face rather than make excuses and casting blame.
- Values learning and improvement.
The ideal candidate identifies with the above and has 2 to 5 years of experience….
- In-house land or legal at an exploration and production company, or
- Writing title opinions,
- As a field landman preparing runsheets or abstracts of title,
- As an administrative law judge at Texas Railroad Commission, Oklahoma Corporation Commission, etc.,
- As an energy litigator, but looking for a change of scenery.
Why This Role Matters
Your role matters because your effort will directly correlate to the success of the law firm, and thereby positively impact the careers of your co-workers and your clients, in addition to your own. When you deliver excellence…
- To a client company, you play a direct role in meeting their strategic objectives, and therefore in their success. Timely work product enables drill schedules to move forward, preventing costly delays; it may mean creating the opportunity for wells or acquisitions that might otherwise have been shelved for complications, or protecting the client from unforeseen legal risk.
- To a client employee, you play a direct and positive role in that person’s professional advancement. Your ability to deliver timely and accurate legal guidance allows the client to focus on creating value and overall project success. Consistent value creation and project success over time facilitates their career advancement. The leveraged positive impact extends to the families and communities they support. Your efforts are a key component of this process.
- You support the firm’s growth. This creates professional opportunities for both the team and you as an individual.
Responsibilities
Your primary external responsibilities will be to deliver legal advice in the form of title opinions and legal memoranda on oil and gas title, operational, and regulatory law issues that arise in the course of conducting exploration and production activities.
Holliday Energy Law Group follows the Rockefeller Habits and operates on a quarterly planning cycle. For an entire day each quarter, we gather as a team with our professional coach to review our performance over the last 90 days and establish billable, process improvement, and other targets for the firm to achieve in the coming 90 days. Each firm-wide priority that we establish is supported by individual priorities, which are drafted and executed by the individual team members. Internally, you will play a role in the planning and execution of these priorities.
Requirements
- Must have law license in Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, North Dakota, Wyoming, or Ohio.
- Nice to have 2 to 5 years of oil and gas title, transactional, litigation or regulatory experience, which will be compensated accordingly.
Performance Metrics/KPIs/Needle Movers for This Role
Your performance will be measured based on the following:
- Attaining an individual annual billable hour goal.
- Quality of work product.
- Achieving individual non-billable quarterly priorities that supporting the firm’s strategic initiatives.
Job Tags
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