Managing Attorney

Apache Corporation; Houston, Northern (TX, KY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Apache Corporation in Houston seeks a Managing Attorney to join its Legal team, acting as a trusted advisor to leadership and a business partner across governance, transactional, litigation, regulatory, and other complex matters.

The role emphasizes strategic guidance, risk assessment, and practical, solution-oriented counsel while fostering collaboration and professional growth within the legal organization.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience.
• Holds a JD from a top law school with top quartile class ranking.
• Demonstrates ability to negotiate effectively.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the assertion/filing of litigation or defense of claims on behalf of Apache Corporation.
• Develop and execute litigation strategy for complex matters including commercial, environmental, employment, regulatory and securities.
• Manage all phases of litigation: pleadings, discovery, motions, trial, appeal, arbitration and mediation.
• Evaluate legal, financial, operational and reputational risks and recommend courses of action.
• Direct settlement strategy and negotiate resolutions aligned with business objectives.
• Oversee preservation of evidence and litigation hold processes.
• Establish cost-effective litigation strategies and manage teams and budgets.
• Provide practical, risk-based legal advice balancing exposure with commercial goals.
• Mentor junior attorneys and legal professionals.
• Assist with SEC disclosures regarding litigation contingencies.
• Prepare briefing materials for executive decision-making.
• Keeps General Counsel informed of material developments.

Skills

Litigation leadership

Negotiation talent

Project management

Analytical thinking

Communication

Collaboration

Leadership

Change leadership

Education

Juris Doctor degree from a top law school

Job description

The Managing Attorney for Apache Corporation will be a member of Apache's Legal team at the company's Houston office. This position plays a vital role in advancing the Company's strategic priorities by serving as a trusted legal advisor and business partner to Company leadership. In this role, the Managing Attorney provides strategic legal counsel, deep subject matter expertise, and practical guidance across a broad range of corporate governance, transactional, litigation, regulatory, and other complex legal matters. Working in close partnership with the business and functional leaders, the Managing Attorney helps identify the Company's most significant legal and business risks, develops practical strategies to address those risks, and drives solutions that support Apache's business objectives while protecting the Company's interests.

The Managing Attorney must exercise sound judgment, think strategically, and provide thoughtful, solution-oriented counsel on matters that are critical to the Company's success. Managing Attorneys are expected to foster collaboration, accountability, and professional growth while ensuring the consistent delivery of high-quality legal services across the organization.

This role will be primarily responsible for the following:

• Litigation: oversee the assertion/filing of a legal claim or defending against one on behalf of the Company (including investigating and prosecuting cases and claims).
  • Assume carriage and responsibility for litigation matters assigned to him or her by the Assistant General Counsel. Garners the trust of senior management and the ability to articulate and justify litigation recommendations to the same.
  • Develop and execute litigation strategy for complex commercial, environmental, employment, personal injury, regulatory, securities, and other high-stakes litigation matters.
  • Manage all phases of litigation, including pleadings, discovery, dispositive motions, trial, appeal, arbitration, and mediation.
  • Evaluate legal, financial, operational, and reputational risks associated with disputes and recommend appropriate courses of action to the General Counsel.
  • Direct settlement strategy and negotiate resolutions consistent with business objectives.
  • Oversee the preservation of evidence and litigation hold processes applicable to his or her litigation docket.
  • Establish effective and cost-effective litigation strategies while managing the litigation teams and budgets assisting with litigation docket.
  • Provide practical, risk-based legal advice that balances legal exposure with commercial objectives.
  • Mentor junior attorneys and legal professionals.
  • Assist with SEC disclosures regarding litigation contingencies.
  • Prepare briefing materials for executive decision-making.
  • Keeps the General Counsel informed of material developments, ensuring there are no surprises.

Qualifications & Experience

The successful candidate will have the following qualifications and experience:

• 12+ years of experience
• Hold a juris doctor degree from a top law school, with a class ranking in the top 25%
• Demonstrates the ability to effectively manage projects (i.e., maintaining a big picture perspective, while managing the details and sticking to a timeline).
• Analyzes any situation from all points of view by taking in large amounts of information at a time, organizing it, and understanding it quickly and correctly.
• Demonstrates and develops negotiation talent.

The successful candidate will lead by example through successfully demonstrating the following:

• Core Competencies
  • Communication: Writes, speaks, and presents information effectively and persuasively across communication setting;
  • Results: Pursues work with energy, drive, and results orientation to positively impact Apache's business success;
  • Collaboration: Works in partnership with others and encourages different perspectives, while building and maintaining trust; and
  • Culture: Willingness and ability to align one's behavior with the needs, priorities, and goals of Apache.
• Servant Leadership: Inspires and enables performance excellence through feedback, empathy, development and empowerment;
• Strategic Mindset: Applies business acumen to see the big picture, understand business issues, and exhibit financial stewardship;
• Change Leadership: Inspires change by challenging the status quo, generating support, and executing improvement projects to achieve business outcomes; and
• Leading Effective Teams: Enables performance excellence through effective structure, delegation, and motivation.

Company Overview

Our primary product is energy, and where there is affordable, abundant energy, people are healthier, have access to better education, and are given greater opportunities to elevate their families to higher standards of living.

Nearly 3 billion people - roughly one-third of the global population - live without electricity or without clean cooking facilities. We are committed to providing energy in innovative and more sustainable ways to help raise the standard of living for those living in energy poverty and to meet the ongoing demands of people and economies around the world.

The products we deliver power increasingly cleaner electricity across the globe, fuel tractors and trucks, make fertilizer to keep the world's food supply on the table, and heat our schools, hospitals and businesses.

Our employees bring a wide range of talents and skills to the job every day to tackle complex business challenges. We believe in providing a truly rewarding work environment supported by a benefits platform that ranks among the best in our peer group. Our company offers career development opportunities where employees can grow personally and professionally. We promote employee benefits that cultivate a family-friendly work environment and focus on our employees' overall well-being.

We are committed to being a workplace where all employees are valued and can thrive with a sense of belonging. Our commitment to non-discriminatory, equal employment opportunities benefits our individual employees, our company and our external stakeholders; we are better as an organization when various experiences, ideas, and perspectives are brought to the table.

Apache Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary of APA Corporation (NASDAQ:APA). Apache has operations in the United States, Egypt's Western Desert and the United Kingdom's North Sea and a sister company with exploration opportunities offshore Suriname. Whether supporting Apache, APA Corporation or one of its subsidiaries, team members are employed by Apache Corporation.

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To provide genuine equal opportunity to all people, it is the policy of Apache Corporation and its subsidiaries to base all employment-related decisions and actions exclusively on employment-related criteria. To provide genuine equal opportunity to all people, it is the policy of Apache Corporation and its subsidiaries to provide broad dissemination of job opportunities, as consistent with the nature of the positions. To provide genuine equal opportunity to all people, it is the policy of Apache Corporation and its subsidiaries to review its employment-related policies and actions on a regular basis to ensure that their application is consistent with their intent.