• Manage outside counsel and legal budget on pending disputes and litigation matters• Collaborate with our Procurement team to review and negotiate master service agreements and consultant services agreements with the company’s contractors, suppliers, and vendors• Review and negotiate transactional oil and gas agreements: joint development agreements, joint operating agreements, gas gathering agreements, gas balancing agreements, deeds, surface use agreements, surface damage releases, renewable energy agreements, etc.• Review lease abstracts and provide approval for the payment of lease bonuses• Review 3rd party title opinions and provide final title clearance for the drilling program• Provide legal advice on regulatory compliance issues and resolve air/water/environmental complaints with regulators• Review and negotiate purchase and sale agreements, letter agreements, and various other M&A agreements for the company’s acquisitions, divestments, or asset trades

• Analyze and review oil and gas leases and provide research, interpretation, maintenance, and set up payment terms and obligations throughout the full exploration and production cycle• Provide due diligence and title support for acquisitions and divestments• Provide title clearance for wellbores and units by review of 3rd party title opinions and broker management for curative concerns• Collaborate with JOA partners to ensure consistency of information and interpretation; provide for free flow of pertinent information to ensure uniformity• Legal Litigation – provide case summaries to Legal and Outside Counsel on pending litigation; draft letters and emails to Landowners and their attorneys, providing a first line of defense/response to Landowner inquiries; and attend meetings with Shell outside counsel regarding pending litigation• Legal Transactional – draft and negotiate JOA agreements, Purchase and Sale Agreements, Assignments of Leases and Contracts; draft lease forms and addendum items and provide inter-departmental counsel regarding the same• Lease focal for business operation planning sessions and provide departmental inputs for CAPEX and OPEX budgets• Provide reports for SEC required year-end acreage disclosures and reserve reporting on Royal Dutch Shell’s 10-K• Project manager for the Appalachia Lease Expiry team, where we have developed a leasehold expiry strategy to optimize Appalachia’s leasehold position and reduce expenditure obligations

Review oil and gas leases and provide research, analysis, interpretation, lease maintenance, and set up/update payment terms and obligations throughout the full exploration and production cycle.

Support the Real Estate and Energy Practice Groups• Draft pleadings, briefs, motions, discovery, client letters, interoffice memoranda for a high volume real estate tax assessment appeal practice• Assist firm clients with zoning and land use matters, providing counsel from the purchase/lease of the real estate, all of the way through the completion of construction/renovations• Draft and negotiate documents related to commercial real estate acquisitions and sales, real estate loans, and real estate leasing• Review title, leases, gathering agreements, land swaps, pipeline agreements, operating agreements, etc. for energy clients• Conduct legal research on all real property issuesAmong the significant matters that I have managed:- represened a major national construction equipment retailer in the planned $100 million expansion of its corporate headquarters, handling all real estate aspects including acquisition, land-use and zoning approvals.- provided due diligence support in the closing of a $4.1 billion dollar transaction that involved the merger of two sponsored funds, the reorganization of one of those funds, and two credit facilities.- assisted two private equity funds in the acquisition of oil and gas leases and fee interests totaling nearly 22,700 acres in central New York, and overriding royalty interests on 140,000 acres in central and western New York, for cash consideration of $26.7 million.

• Analyzed and evaluated new clients and matters for business, legal and/or ethical conflict of interest issues, and recognize steps for facilitating conflict resolution• Drafted waivers for identified business, legal and/or ethical conflicts of interest• Provided due diligence on clients and matters for prospective lateral hires to ensure there are no business, legal and/or ethical issues with existing Reed Smith clients and/or matters• Reviewed and revised responses to audit letter requests for firm clients to ensure that privileged information is not being inadvertently disclosed• Reviewed and negotiated firm contracts with firm vendors• Attended pro bono clinics and drafted estate planning documents for pro bono clients• Represented minor children through the adoption process

Drafted pleadings, briefs, motions, discovery, client letters, interoffice memoranda and conducted legal research in the areas of estates and trusts, plaintiff's personal injury, corporate law, business law, and real estate law. Attended real estate closings for in-house settlement company.

Assisted students, faculty and various other legal professionals in obtaining the necessary resources for which to complete their various research tasks.

Drafted pleadings, briefs, motions, client letters, interoffice memoranda and conducted legal research in the areas of federal criminal law and family law.

Drafted pleadings, briefs, motions, discovery, client letters, interoffice memoranda and conducted legal research in the areas of tort law, the uniform commercial code, and insurance bad faith; also assisted attorneys in trial preparation by drafting deposition summaries and privilege logs.