Support five attorneys practicing transactional, corporate, finance, tax, international and regulatory work. Assist with the corporate records management. Handle organization and maintenance of contracts database. Handle organization of corporate policies and procedures. Point person for all outside bills from counsel. Provide Executive Assistance to all attorneys including handling expense reports, travel arrangements, arranging meetings and document revisions and preparation.

Supported the head of the International Energy Law Section and four associates. Provide secretarial and administrative support to five attorneys in transactional matters involving primarily energy sector clients. Provide training and mentoring to secretarial staff to assist their transition from litigation to transactional support. Other duties as assigned by Human Resources or my reporting attorneys. Provide assistance on FERC filings and other PUC filings. Assist with corporate due diligence matters during a large MLP transaction. Provide Executive Administrative duties including expense reports, global travel arrangements, meeting coordination and other items as assigned.

Handle the maintenance of all corporate records and corporate minute books as well as drafting corporate resolutions and handling foreign and domestic registrations of all business entities. Responsible for drafting and updating Annual Meeting documents including election of officers, establishing signatories and other matters to keep all entities up-to-date and in good standing. Work with tax and treasury departments to establish foreign entities, including performing due diligence searches on potential foreign representatives in connection with FCPA guidelines and setting up bank accounts and other necessary local requirements. Work with in-house and outside counsel on diverse acquisitions and divestitures, which include such regulatory filings as NASDAQ applications, SEC filings, FERC filings, BLM filings and various corporate and state registrations as needed. Work with in-house and outside counsel on miscellaneous IP matters including patent and trademark applications in the United States as well as foreign jurisdictions. Handle complex travel arrangements for attorneys including obtaining proper visas and other documentation as needed. Handle Contract Administration for TETRA and its wholly owned subsidiaries. Set up database system to track original agreements including contracts, real property, acquisitions and divestitures and other legal, financial and regulatory documents. Receive original contracts from all divisions and countries for electronic scanning, entry into databases and filing for safekeeping.

My duties primarily involved corporate, contract negotiations, real estate, FERC filings, energy and regulatory work. I handled contract administration for the commercial gas storage group which included drafting, tracking, executing and organizing all contracts for gas storage, service agreements, and confidentiality agreements. Reorganized all filing systems and put into place procedures for handling all original contracts. Work with a group to handle document management and establish a destruction policy for all corporate, regulatory and financial documents.

My responsibilities for the Energy Group included acquisitions and divestitures, finance, credit facilities and other oil and gas and real property matters as required.

Began my career at Haynes and Boone in the Energy Section, we handled asset purchases, contract negotiations and the various closing documents and land work associated therewith. Ms. Talbot specializes in energy transactional work, Mr. Cummings handled mostly energy litigation and Mr. Browne is a landsman. Worked very closely with these attorneys and our clients during the various transactions from inception through the actual closings, including drafting and filing corporate minutes and organizational documents with the Secretary of State. Accepted the position as Office Manager in the fall of 1998 when the Houston Office had approximately 53 lawyers and approximately 50,000 square feet of office space. We experienced significant growth over a four year period. This growth required major construction, moves and reallocation of resources. Haynes and Boone had 100,000 square feet of office space, over 100 lawyers, 108 staff members and 30 summer clerks in the Houston office when I left in August 2003. Managed Human Resources for the Houston office (including recruiting, hiring and management of all staff positions), budget and expense control, facilities, administrative services and staffing issues.