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Responsible for legal affairs and legal matters within the Rockies Business Unit (including Colorado, Wyoming and surrounding states and the Powder River Basin play) and the Gulf Coast Business Unit (including Louisiana, Central Texas and East Texas and the Barnett and Haynesville shale plays).• Provide legal advice and counsel to business unit leadership, operations personnel and land personnel on E&P operations and business decisions• Draft, review, revise and negotiate business, E&P and oil and gas contracts and agreements• Handle and respond to legal demands and audits within each business unit• Oversee outside counsel work on litigation• Additional Leadership Role: OneCHK CHAMPIONS LEAD responsible for leading and coordinating large group of employees tasked with championing, sustaining and reinforcing Chesapeake’s core and cultural values including inclusion and diversity, safety and innovation.

Responsible for legal affairs and legal matters within the Central Texas Business Unit (including Barnett shale play) and Rockies Business Unit. • Provide legal advice and counsel to business unit departments and personnel• Draft, review, revise and negotiate contracts and agreements• Handle and respond to legal demands and audits and oversee outside counsel• Lead, manage and develop team of attorneys and legal staff • Additional Leadership Role: OneCHK CHAMPIONS LEAD

Responsible for legal affairs and legal matters within the Central Texas Business Unit (including Barnett shale play), Gulf Coast Business Unit (including Haynesville shale play) and Rockies Business Unit (including Powder River Basin play). • Provide legal advice and counsel to business unit departments and personnel• Draft, review, revise and negotiate contracts and agreements• Handle and respond to legal demands and audits and oversee outside counsel• Lead, manage and develop team of attorneys and legal staff • Additional Leadership Role: OneCHK CHAMPIONS LEAD

Responsible for legal affairs and legal matters within the Central Texas Business Unit (including Barnett shale play) and Eastern Gulf Coast Business Unit (including Haynesville shale play). • Provide legal advice and counsel to business unit departments and personnel• Draft, review, revise and negotiate contracts and agreements• Handle and respond to legal demands and audits and oversee outside counsel• Lead, manage and develop team of attorneys and legal staff • Additional Leadership Role: OneCHK CHAMPIONS LEAD

Responsible for transactional legal affairs and legal matters within the Central Texas Business Unit (including Barnett shale play) and Eastern Gulf Coast Business Unit (including Haynesville shale play). • Responsible for review, structure, drafting and negotiation of natural gas and real property transactions, agreements and documents within urban and rural natural gas plays• Provide legal advice and counsel to business unit on transactions and agreements including oil and gas leases, joint operating agreements, real property transfers, joint venture agreements and dispute resolution agreements; analyzing legal and business aspects of opportunities and assisting business unit make the best decision to meet goals and objectives of company while minimizing risk• Review and respond to legal inquiries, audits and legal demands relating to all aspects of the oil and gas industry• Handling and overseeing litigation and dispute resolution including all forms of discovery and management of outside counsel• Provide relevant business-related training to clients, including landmen, engineers, and drilling and operations personnel

Handle and oversee all aspects of litigation relating to oil and gas matters in the states of Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas, and providing relevant business-related training to clients

Intermittent solo legal practice counseling and advising individuals, small businesses, large companies and start-ups on all aspects of running their businesses from the initial determination of what type of entity or organization to create to successfully growing in today's economy; providing "general counsel" services to small and medium size companies which do not have in-house counsel.Services provided include:• Draft, review, revise and modify various legal and business documents such as master service agreements, joint venture agreements, contracts, license agreements, independent contractor and agency agreements, franchise agreements, consultant agreements, intellectual property agreements, stock and asset purchase agreements, and other forms of transaction documentation • Advise, counsel and represent businesses on matters relating to corporate and business start-up and structure, corporate and business transactions, due diligence, employment and labor laws, healthcare and other employee benefits, energy, transportation, environmental, regulatory compliance, succession planning, and property transfer• Represent individuals and businesses in civil litigation and dispute resolution• Provide estate planning and probate services

Chief legal advisor to senior management, program management, and human resources on all aspects of contracting and employment/labor law• Draft, review, edit, modify and negotiate various legal and business transactions, agreements and documents with the federal government, large companies and small businesses including large service and training contracts, teaming agreements, non-disclosure agreements, license agreements, joint venture agreements, master services agreements and business policies • Advise all departments on legal aspects of regulatory compliance, due diligence and decision-making for contracting, human resources, insurance and financial/accounting departments• Handle and/or oversee risk management, dispute resolution and litigation before governmental agencies

Provide legal counsel, legal respresentation and litigation services to large companies, small businesses, and individuals. • Draft and review various legal and business documents including purchase agreements, master services agreements, contracts, license agreements, independent contractor and agency agreements, franchise agreements, consultant agreements, intellectual property agreements, transaction documentation, and stock and asset purchase agreements• Advise and represent businesses on matters relating to corporate and business transactions, employment and labor laws, employee benefits and property transfer• Draft and edit employment and labor related documents assuring compliance with laws• Conduct all aspects of litigation in business law, contracts, oil & gas, environmental, trucking/transportation, employment, real estate, torts and insurance matters• Present training and seminars to clients and potential clients on related topics

Provide general legal counsel and litigation service to companies, small businesses, and individuals.• Draft and review various legal and business documents including master services agreements, contracts, license agreements, independent contractor agreements, franchise agreements, consultant agreements, employee benefits plans and agreements, intellectual property agreements, transaction documentation, and employment policies assuring compliance with federal and state laws• Advise and represent companies and small businesses on matters relating to corporate and business transactions, employment/labor laws, employee benefits and corporate structure• Conduct all aspects of litigation in business law, contracts, oil and gas, environmental, real estate, construction, trucking/transportation, employment, debtor-creditor, torts and insurance matters

Selected by the University of Oklahoma Student Association as the Outstanding Administrator for the entire OU campus in 2001• Train, counsel, guide, and motivate students on career and professional decisions• Recruit, develop and maintain strong relationships with potential employers throughout Oklahoma and surrounding states• Teach Professionalism and Ethics to upper level law students• Sole Coach for law school Client Counseling Team (2nd place out of 142 teams competing from the U.S. and Canada) and assist with other legal competition teams• Responsible for all recruitment, hiring and termination of faculty for paralegal school• Supervise numerous faculty members, three staff subordinates and student assistants

Provide business, employment and labor litigation and transactional practice in state and federal courts and agencies

Provid business, employment and labor litigation and transactional practice in state and federal courts and agencies

• Conduct extensive legal research for and drafting of opinions and legal memoranda on civil appeals and original proceedings from state courts and administrative agencies• Analyze, construe and apply constitutional provisions, statutes and case law• Drafted numerous opinions covering various areas of law for Justice Robert D. Simms