Minimum five years of legal support experience in regulatory, technology, commercial, compliance, or corporate governance matters.
Proven ability to adapt to new subject areas and changing assignments.
Experience analyzing complex legal and business information and summarizing it clearly.
Skilled in matter intake, tracking, reporting, and document management.
Ability to collaborate across various functional and organizational lines.
Responsibilities
Conduct legal research and document review to support various practice areas.
Manage legal matters, ensuring timely tracking and reporting of progress.
Coordinate cross-functional activities among attorneys, business partners, and outside counsel.
Prepare and revise legal documents using approved templates and guidelines.
Maintain accurate information in matter-management systems and collaboration platforms.
Benefits
Exposure to a diverse range of legal practice areas within a major multinational energy organization.
Opportunity to work in a technically varied and business-critical environment.
Access to advanced digital tools and technologies for legal support.
Collaborative work culture with professionals across multiple disciplines.
Full Job Description
Job Title: Legal Analyst Duration: One Year Schedule: 5/40 Location: Houston,Texas
Job Overview:
This opportunity sits within a legal services environment supporting regulatory, technology, commercial, compliance, and corporate governance matters. The role offers broad exposure across multiple practice groups and business areas, with responsibility for legal research, document review, matter management, reporting, and cross-functional coordination. This company is a major multinational energy organisation with operations spanning upstream, downstream, and lower-carbon initiatives, offering a technically varied and business-critical setting.
Required Experience:
Minimum of five years of professional experience involving legal support, regulatory matters, technology-related matters, commercial transactions, compliance, corporate governance, matter management, complex document review, or comparable work
Demonstrated ability to learn new subject areas, processes, systems, and stakeholder environments and to transition effectively across changing assignments
Experience analysing complex legal, regulatory, technical, commercial, and business information and producing clear, objective summaries for review
Experience supporting matter intake, tracking, reporting, document management, and follow-up activities through to completion
Experience working across broad functional and organisational lines with attorneys, business partners, subject matter experts, outside counsel, and staff
Required Skills:
Strong legal and factual research capability, with the ability to identify relevant facts, issues, dependencies, deadlines, and potential risks
Strong document preparation, review, revision, proofreading, editing, and organisational skills using approved templates and guidance
Excellent matter-management, analytical, and prioritisation skills, with the ability to manage varied deadlines, competing priorities, and changing workload demands
Clear and effective written and verbal communication skills, including collaboration in both in-person and virtual environments
Ability to maintain accurate, complete, and timely information in matter-management systems, collaboration platforms, trackers, and repositories
Digital fluency including proficiency with Microsoft 365 and the ability to learn and apply approved AI-enabled tools, automation, analytics, and digital solutions responsibly
Sound judgment, discretion, and professionalism when handling confidential, privileged, personal, technical, and business-sensitive information
Continuous improvement mindset with the ability to identify opportunities for simplification, standardisation, automation, or removal of non-value-added work
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience supporting more than one legal practice area, business unit, or type of legal work
Experience supporting regulatory, technology, commercial, compliance, corporate governance, privacy, cybersecurity, intellectual property, or other cross-functional legal matters
Experience reviewing and summarising legal, regulatory, technical, commercial, or business documents and information
Experience with matter-management, reporting, analytics, document-management, or collaboration technologies such as Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Power BI, or comparable tools
Bachelor's degree, paralegal certificate, law degree, or other relevant education or professional training
Equivalent combinations of education, professional training, certifications, and relevant experience will be considered
