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Job Description
PARALEGAL POSITION
Holliday Energy Law Group is looking for candidates to join our growing team primarily to assist in the operations of a transactional law practice. Candidates must have excellent written and verbal English and a full command of Microsoft office products. This role will assist attorneys in preparing written legal work product for clients and will require a strong command of Microsoft Word and Excel.
While experience is not required ideal candidates will have 25 years of direct experience either as a transactional paralegal or inhouse with a real estate or oil and gas company.
Our goal is to recruit A players to join our team. If you are an A player we want to hear from about the position and our firm can be found submit a resume and cover letter.
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 firms core values.
- Is excited about the oil and gas industry.
- Thrives in a collaborative teambased 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.
- Reviewing and editing transactional legal documents.
- Managing a firms filing system.
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 coworkers 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 persons 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 your own and the firms professional growth. This creates professional opportunities for both the team and you as an individual.
Responsibilities
Your primary external responsibilities will be to support attorneys who provide legal advice in the form of title opinions and legal memoranda on oil and gas law issues that arise in the course of conducting exploration and production activities. This will primarily come in the form of reading and editing written work product and preparing the final version of work product to deliver to clients. This also involves:
- Editing written legal documents
- Preparing legal document templates
- Migrating data from MSExcel into MSWord
- Preparing maps of the lands being worked on by attorneys
- Maintaining the project electronic filing system
- Updating project inventory reports
- Client project intake
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 firmwide 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
- Strong command of written English and the ability to edit documents for spelling and grammar.
- Proficiency in MSWord MSExcel MSPowerPoint.
- Nice to have2 to 5 years of title transactional litigation experience.
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 nonbillable quarterly priorities that supporting the firms strategic initiatives.
Employment Type
Full-Time
